Comments on: On the internet, no one knows you’re a p2p packet

By: Paul Raven

Paul Raven — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:24:57 +0000

That’s not a complaint I’ve heard often, Clark, but that’s not to say it’s any less valid …

By: Clark Richardson

Clark Richardson — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:31:32 +0000

Well their business model is chewed to hell all right but it is not because of P2P. The suit just don’t get it at all. How many of them have actually tried to take all the plastic wrappers off and related stickers and cello tape of a CD or a DVD? How about taking it off ten of them? Bet they can’t do it without damage in less then three minutes. Wake up boys I used to buy four or five CD’s a month as well as a couple of DVD’s but don’t anymore unless they unwrap them in the store.

By: Ian Sales

Ian Sales — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:59:47 +0000

I don’t know about the net being choked, but it’s not helped by the likes of Virgin Media advertising “superfast” broadband… only for their service to prove horribly slow due to stupidly high contention. There’s marketroid smarts for you: fat pipe equals speed, but let’s not mention the fact you’re fighting everyone else for access to it…