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Virgin Media to Throttle BitTorrent Users
TorrentFreak —
... Virgin Media’s CEO Neil Berkett told The Register that the company will start limiting BitTorrent traffic for all its customers. To some this might not really come as a surprise, as earlier this year ...
Virgin Media will block BitTorrent
ZDNet Government —
... Suddenly, it’s OK for cable companies to step on BitTorrent. In the U.S., Comcast was forced to adopt a protocol-agnostic approach to managing traffic after its throttling of BitTorrent was exposed. But in the U.K., Virgin Media, which had previously adopted agnostic approaches, slowing down heavy users across all applications, is now going after BitTorrent, The Register reports. [image] The details and timing of the new application-based restrictions are still being developed, Virgin Media’s Kiwi CEO Neil Berkett said in an interview on Monday following the launch of his ...
Report: Virgin Media to Restrict BitTorrent Traffic
Wired: Epicenter —
... ") told The Register about the decision saying only that it will come into force around the middle of next year. A comment from an official spokesman didn’t offer much more information: ...
Land mines scattered across Virgin territory
GMSV —
... for delivering their content. * Next year, Virgin will reverse course on its traffic management approach and, instead of temporarily throttling the bandwidth of its heaviest downloaders across all applications at peak times, it will specifically target and restrict BitTorrent , widely used to transfer large video files. This discrimination-by-application is exactly what got Comcast into so much trouble earlier this year and forced it to change tactics (see “ ...
