DISQUS

Michael David Crawford · 2 years ago

I offer completely legal BitTorrent downloads of my Creative Commons piano compositions at http://www.geometricvisions.com/music/ These aren't pirated MP3s, as they are provided with the permission of the copyright holder - me.

BitTorrent is crucial to me as it keeps down my web hosting bill; with the FLAC download of my album being over a hundred megabytes, were I to only offer HTTP downloads I could easily be bankrupted by bandwidth bills. ISPs like Comcast threaten my livelihood, and my aspirations as a musician.

My previous ISP blocked BitTorrent, so I was unable to monitor that my own torrents were working!

When I moved into my new house, I found that the cable TV service was provided by Comcast. I'm too far from the central telephone office for conventional DSL, so I pay extra for a slower service called IDSL (DSL over ISDN) that can go farther. But at least my new ISP, Stephouse, has a great Acceptable Use Policy and does not interfere with my torrents.

Randy Ethridge · 2 years ago

So when do we now require internet users to share their bandwidth (most unknowningly) to distribute others content? Why should part of my internet usage go to making someone else money without me being compensated? If people want their content distributed then let them pay for the bandwidth and quit leaching off others bandwidth for free.

u235sentinel · 2 years ago

So when do we now require internet users to share their bandwidth (most unknowningly) to distribute others content? Why should part of my internet usage go to making someone else money without me being compensated? If people want their content distributed then let them pay for the bandwidth and quit leaching off others bandwidth for free.

Perhaps you shouldn't run bittorrent then? You after all made that decision knowing how bittorrent works. You benefited from it as much as the next guy. And now you complain about compensation?

Perhaps you should come up with something that meets your criteria and get back with us. I've love to hear how you intend to implement your solution.

Derek · 10 months ago

Randy is an idiot.

Let me put it this way.

I have 15mbps internet. The actual speed is more around 13mbps, but thats still pretty good.

What's happening is ISPs are preventing people from using the full bandwidth that they paid for. So if Insight realizes im using more than, say, 6mbps, they will throttle my bandwidth so i cant use my full 13mbps.

ISPs probably figured noone in their right mind could use a full 15mbps. So when someone does, it bogs down others internet because they never planned on you using that much bandwidth. That's why they throttle it. I just want to be able to use the full, if not close to, amount that i pay for every month.

Derek · 10 months ago

Note: i dont know for certain that Insight throttles my bandwidth. i was using that as an example.