P2P & ISPs
While RIAA has claimed that it is defeating P2P, that is not true. CacheLogic shares actual P2P traffic statistics in a 2004 reportand 2005 report update. The reports show that P2P users have shifted away from Fast Track (Kazaa) and to Bit Torrent and eDonkey networks. That change is due to the increasing proportion of video files being shared, penetration of broadband to enable such large downloads, and entertainment actions that have pressured certain software makers, networks, and sites. However overall P2P usage continues to grow.
isps and telcos take a wait a see attitude. In the Light Reading article Chris Rice, AT&T Executive VP of network planning and engineering said "I think the view that we're looking at is: You have managed services and you have unmanaged services. Peer-to-peer services are unmanaged. Obviously, unmanaged IP services deal with impairments. Sometimes they have slower response times. Sometimes they have quicker response times. It just depends on the usage and the volume of traffic on the network at any given time. In a managed environment, throughput is the same all the time."
Qwest CTO Pieter Poll said "I'm not convinced that it causes network congestion at this point, but clearly it has the potential to do that. … I found that the traffic is well under what some in that industry say is happening. I mean, you hear claims of significant double-digit penetration of peer-to-peer traffic, and it was not near there."
In fact this is a big problem. I hope that someone will do something, but I don’t konw how.