There's an op-ed piece in this posting, Ray. Do you want to write it, or should I?
:-) On April 23, 2015 10:06:42 AM EDT, Ray Soucy <r...@maine.edu> wrote: >It's amazing, really. > >Netflix and YouTube now overtake BitTorrent and all other file sharing >peer-to-peer traffic combined, even on academic networks, by order(s) >of >magnitude. The amount of peer-to-peer traffic is not even significant >in >comparison. It might as well be IRC from our perspective. > >Internet usage habits have shifted quite a bit in the past decade. I >think >the takeaway is that if you provide content in a way that is fairly >priced >and convenient to access (e.g. DRM doesn't get in your way), most >people >will opt for the legal route. Something we were trying to explain to >the >MPAA and RIAA years ago when they shoved the DMCA down our throats. > >I'm certainly in favor of symmetrical service. I think there is a >widely >held myth that DOS attacks will take down the Internet when everyone >has >more bandwidth. The fact is that DOS attacks are a problem regardless >of >bandwidth, and throttling people isn't a solution. The other (somewhat >insulting) argument that people will use greater upload speeds for >illegal >activity is pretty bogus as well. > >The limit on upload bandwidth for most people is a roadblock to a lot >of >the services that people will take for granted a decade from now; cloud >backup, residential video surveillance over IP, peer-to-peer high >definition video conferencing. And likely a lot of things that we >haven't >imagined yet. > >As funny as it sounds, I think Twitch (streaming video games) has been >the >application that has made the younger generation care about their >upload >speed more than anything else. They now have a use case where their >limited upload is a real problem for them, and when they find out their >ISP >can't provide anything good enough they get pretty upset about it. > > > > > >On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Frank Bulk" <frnk...@iname.com> >> >> > Those are measured at the campus boundary. I don't have visibility >inside >> > the school's network to know who much intra-campus traffic there >may be . >> > but we know that peer-to-peer is a small percentage of overall >Internet >> > traffic flows, and streaming video remains the largets. >> >> BitTorrent makes special efforts to keep as much traffic local as >possible, >> I understand; that probably isn't too helpful... except at scales >like that >> on a resnet at a sizable campus. >> >> Cheers, >> -- jra >> -- >> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink >> j...@baylink.com >> Designer The Things I Think >RFC >> 2100 >> Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land >> Rover DII >> St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 >647 >> 1274 >> > > > >-- >Ray Patrick Soucy >Network Engineer >University of Maine System > >T: 207-561-3526 >F: 207-561-3531 > >MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network >www.maineren.net -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.