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by fayyazkl 4412 days ago
Until we find a way to truly achieve network neutrality which also means (from service provider's perspective) to throttle and keep in reasonable usage limit applications such as video streaming, specifically illegal torrent usage which chokes carriers bandwidth and prevents normal users too, this debate will continue. I don't see any thing principally wrong with providers point of view (i might be biased because i work in the industry that provides these tools/software. But logically, the word "neutral" to me should equate both sides - not prioritizing some high paying customer's traffic, but at the same time not allowing a regular user to eat every one else's bandwidth to download his favorite pirated content. I feel the discussion on the topic is mostly targeted at the former only. A side effect of such capability could also be better utilization of network resources i.e. charging customers ONLY when and what they use - there by decreasing costs as well.