Here's an enlightening article from Wired. How is it possible that these large ISPs have no ability to actually produce their traffic data? I've played with packet capture/netflow software and it isn't 100% reliable it should possible for any ISP to generate some kind of reasonably detailed traffic reports. Maybe the ISPs are just using P2P traffic as an excuse for something.
I have a fear that the real reason these ISPs are rattling this "P2P is evil" saber is because they know that they have GROSSLY oversold their networks and they have to institute packet shaping in order to keep things flowing at all. The ISPs are using the bad public perception of P2P as an excuse to not have to spend money on infrastructure upgrades by reducing some of the traffic on their networks.
The truth is that not only is Internet usage on the rise but the nature of the data involved and the Internet experience is changing as well. The Internet is becoming more content rich and more of a multimedia experience....that just requires a bigger pipe.
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