pcause writes "The Internet (physical as opposed to technical) was really not designed for applications that want to use maximum bandwidth all of the time, such as P2P and streaming video. Here in the US we've seen Comcast try balance the demands ofP2P traffic with other traffic and its backbone capacity. In the UK, this article discusses a flame war caused by the iPlayer, between the BBC and ISPs about the same issue. This is an issue that isn't going away any time soon.
So the question so: who pays? Should the content owners, who make the profits / get the benefits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay? It isn't going to be the ISP, since the costs are large, capital is tight and the only way to recover is to pass on the additional cost to the consumer. This issue is what the so-called "Net Neutrality" debate is really about!"
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