Barron's: "Net Neutrality could hurt day traders"

[Gambit]

Well...

T1 is 1.5mbit, I certainly hope they're not using it nowadays nor would I. I have no idea what the outsourcing companies are using, I doubt they care about throttling because the services that are throttled are mostly used by retail clients. It's always easy to screw a bunch of people who torrent at home (even if the torrents are legal) compared to messing with a big outsourcing company with lawyers.

My trading isn't one millisecond sensitive and I haven't really suffered from these policies but it certainly makes life harder when it comes to other services. It's blatantly obvious that the only purpose is to fill the pockets of ISPs and nothing else.

Europe has a regulated ISP market and the service quality is very high. Banning torrenting or at least attempting to is legal in the Philippines, in Europe this would be strictly illegal as done here. Many other websites function slowly because they are high bandwidth users from the ISP point of view. This is the future for US users.

At least the women are nice. Or so I hear.

 

[truetype]

They might decide to block specific protocols completely, for example, bit torrent.

OMG OMG OMG my ISP might not support piracy!

 

[sle]

OMG OMG OMG my ISP might not support piracy!

Actually, I use bit torrent protocol to transfer large data files from my private server to local box. Several commercial tick data providers do the same, as a matter of fact.

 

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I use bit torrent protocol to transfer large data files from my private server to local box. Several commercial tick data providers do the same

No doubt -- and I read Playboy for the interviews! Probably 99% of torrent traffic is piracy.

 

[Cuddles]

Actually, I use bit torrent protocol to transfer large data files from my private server to local box. Several commercial tick data providers do the same, as a matter of fact.

I wonder what ISP rules will be on encrypted traffic. After all, I'm sure there's plenty of companies and government entities that need their packets secure. Will they just cap anything they can't figure out as a stop gap to heavy traffic users using these measures?

 

[sle]

No doubt -- and I read Playboy for the interviews! Probably 99% of torrent traffic is piracy.

Honestly, it shouldn’t matter. I don’t pay my ISP for the content, I pay for the bandwidth and I should be able to use it any way I see fit.

I wonder what ISP rules will be on encrypted traffic. After all, I'm sure there's plenty of companies and government entities that need their packets secure. Will they just cap anything they can't figure out as a stop gap to heavy traffic users using these measures?

Probably. Or block encrypted traffic to anything but some list of approved addresses. People who work from home via VPN are gonna love it.

 

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Honestly, it shouldn’t matter. I don’t pay my ISP for the content, I pay for the bandwidth and I should be able to use it any way I see fit

ISPs shouldn't facilitate piracy, any more than eBay should facilitate Hermès & Vuitton counterfeiting. But this is off the thread topic.

 

[dealmaker]

Net neutrality’s dead, battle to resurrect it is beginning
An epic power struggle over the future of the internet will play out in the United States this year. Its outcome will determine just how much control broadband companies like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T have over the online content they pipe into homes and offices. The struggle follows last month’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission to scrap Obama-era net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from blocking or slowing down legal content.(MIT Technology Review)