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One of the key focuses currently facing members of the BitTorrent community is traffic shaping (or bandwidth throttling.) Since its inception, BitTorrent has become the unquestioned consumer of bandwidth, as CacheLogic reports over 60% of all Internet traffic is attributable to this protocol. Some ISPs have simply reinvested in their networks and allowed BitTorrent to flourish, while others report that Shaw Cable and Rogers Cable in Canada have made their BitTorrent experience excessively slow and intolerable.
In response, BitTorrent developers have introduced "end to end" encryption in an effort to counter these policies. By fooling traffic shaping software, this has become very welcomed news from those who experience bandwidth throttling.
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Full: http://slyck.com/news.php?story=1083
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam