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But blaming DPI and traffic-shaping for Phorm is just exactly like blaming email (the tool) for those penis enlargement ads, or HTML for pop-up advertising.
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Erik Huggers, BBC director of future media and technology, threw his weight behind the open web argument today, criticising ISPs who have restricted access to the iPlayer at certain times of day (even with a meaty connection, iPlayer is often glitchy at early evening peak times) and calling for more transparency about current traffic-shaping practices among ISPs.
Net neutrality: BBC tells EU that ISPs must be transparent about traffic shaping Jemima Kiss 2010
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So, essentially, what the big evil bogeyman known as “traffic-shaping” does is to have a certain part of the network “know” what kind of packet it is, and thus, how fast it needs to get there.
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As for “degraded performance all over the place”, enforced net neutrality and a ban on traffic-shaping (for whatever reason) would concentrate the “degraded services” to those which are time-sensitive, such as streaming video and remote stuff like telesurgery, AND put the State in a position to mandate how fast/slow packets are “permitted” to travel.
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He says that in practice, it is hard for consumers to switch providers if they don't like its traffic-shaping service because it is a complicated, expensive and confusing process.
Net neutrality: BBC tells EU that ISPs must be transparent about traffic shaping Jemima Kiss 2010
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And going all black-hellicopter and assuming that the ONLY reason for stuff like traffic-shaping and DPI is that “they want to spy on you” is just insane.
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As for “degraded performance all over the place”, enforced net neutrality and a ban on traffic-shaping for whatever reason would concentrate the “degraded services” to those which are time-sensitive, such as streaming video and remote stuff like telesurgery, AND put the State in a position to mandate how fast/slow packets are “permitted” to travel.
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And going all black-hellicopter and assuming that the ONLY reason for stuff like traffic-shaping and DPI is that “they want to spy on you” is just insane.
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But blaming DPI and traffic-shaping for Phorm is just exactly like blaming email the tool for those penis enlargement ads, or HTML for pop-up advertising.
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I expect to see this sort of traffic-shaping rolled out as "partnerships" for an "improved user experience" between a given ISP and a handful of web sites / content providers as a result.
Pricing the Internet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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