I just discovered that TekSavvy has posted mrtg graphs of traffic before and after throttling. I notice that proportions between types of traffic are about the same, except P2P is a little bit smaller than before.
What’s staggering is although proportions wind up being the same, overall traffic is down from 160 megabit to 40 megabit! [...]
I just realized that neutrality.ca is still updating, but it’s in chronological rather than reverse chronological order. Look at the bottom for new posts.
The plan of defense right now appears to be writing to your MP (you can look up the appropriate mailing list based on your postal code) and the Minister of Industry Jim [...]
The Red Dot Campaign has been around for a while and has been pretty successful in helping Canadians get rid of junk mail. Michael Geist has set up an equivalent for telemarketers. iOptOut is like the American Do Not Call Registry.
Unfortunately I feel a bit of a disconnect here. iOptOut will be useful for my [...]
Update: Check out the damage that Bell (BCE, BCE.TO) has done. All traffic has fallen two third to three quarters. This includes UDP, which BitTorrent does not use for its payload. Why did its traffic go down then? Kudos to TekSavvy for being so transparent. They aren’t saving any money on this either, they [...]
The Turnitin lawsuit has run its course at the first court and an appeal hasn’t been filed yet.
It played out differently than what I expected. First off, Turnitin’s use was considered transformative and fair use. That’s not a huge surprise. Also, the fact that a user could enter in a Shakespearian quotation and receive a [...]
Trent Reznor just released the first CD of his new album for free. (Obligatory mirror for my torrent-throttled friends: hosted in Detroit, official torrent: tracked by The Pirate Bay)The full album is up for a digital download for $5. Great!
Well, everyone else thought so too, and his site went down under load. He posted a [...]
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