Mark Cuban Wants ISPs To Block All P2P Filesharing

[DudeAsInCool]

Tech and sports tycoon Mark Cuban has put out a call to the ISPs to block peer-to-peer file-sharing, suggesting its users are 'clogging the tubes' with commercial content.' According to Ars Technica, the brunt of the attack is on companies using P2P for legitimate commercial applications:

"If I was a Comcast customer, I would tell them, as I am now telling all the services I am a customer of: BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC, PLEASE. As a consumer, I want my Internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my Internet service down are P2P freeloaders," says Cuban. "Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. The only person/organization that benefits from P2P usage are those that are trying to distribute content and want to distribute it on someone else's bandwidth dime... When consumers provide their bandwidth to assist commercial applications, they are subsidizing those commercial applications which if it isn't already, should be against an ISPs terms of service."

Read more at Ars Technica

Read Mark Cuban's letter at Blog Maverick

[method77]

Mark Cuban just joined the 'assholes club'

[Hemoglobin Harry]

Just joined? You weren't familiar with him before?

LOL. Best NBA owner, but major tool.

[method77]

actually I don't know much about him except that he got lucky during the internet bubble

[rainbowdemon]

someone else's bandwidth dime

I pay for mine!!

Idiot.

[Kooperman]

With no access to file-sharing, I suspect the demand for broadband would plummet...