Comments on: Irish majors aim a punch at Eircom

By: Hamlet Sweeney

Hamlet Sweeney — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:05:21 +0000

It’s all a bit like bolting the stable door when the horse has already legged it, is living in a new valley and has sired a few generations of grand kids. Too little, too late.

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:30:04 +0000

I’m pretty sure NTL aren’t blocking p2p; they’re attempting to throttle it, but this thread on boards.ie seems to suggest that turning on encryption defeats that.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:01:47 +0000

AS far as I know NTL/UPC or whatever they call themselves have blocked P2P traffic.

I don’t think they have.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:37:41 +0000

Jim, we could all use some mid-afternoon titillation. Let us at those blueys!

By: toto

toto — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:08:15 +0000

AS far as I know NTL/UPC or whatever they call themselves have blocked P2P traffic. Other smaller ISP’s also have. They just block the ports used by P2P networks..i know there is a load of variables around that but thats a simplified version of how they block it

By: Steve K

Steve K — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:35:15 +0000

crowcroft puts it just right. ISPs can’t ban P2P or BitTorrent, as it’s legitimate uses are too critical. Tt would be akin to banning the German language in order to stop the spread of Nazism.

They can’t successfully monitor if copyrighted material is being shared because of encryption.

There’s no technical solution and surely the record companies know it. Something should be done about these sarcastic sons of bitches.

By: Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:34:26 +0000

Have to do the approval thing because of the very nice people trying to get me to link to their poker and porn sites.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:33:01 +0000

Ahh, didn’t realise you were doing the approval thing. Carry on!

By: Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:23:17 +0000

Twenty - I’m in Texas at South By Southwest all week hence why comments are a little later than usual in getting approved.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:12:43 +0000

Really surprised this hasn’t generated more comments…