There are many ways for ISPs to manage the increased load BitTorrent traffic places on their network. Some choose to interrupt BitTorrent transfers like Comcast did, but there are more ‘consumer friendly’ alternatives too….

Los ISPs se quejan de que la descarga masiva de torrents afecta el rendimiento general de su red y por tanto la de otros clientes que no hacen este tipo de descargas. Para solucionarlo muchos ISPs han adoptado la solución de reducir la velocidad de es…

OnT: ISP ignoring amount of BT traffic may bring them too much of expensive foreign/overseas traffic. BT shaping would alienate their own customers, so if they can neither ignore nor shape BT traffic, they have to substitute it with cheap/free local traffic – it’s just business, nothing personal.
Biggest Russian tracker (torrents.ru, claims to have 3,500,000+ users) uses “retracker” system, which is close to the mentioned idea. A group of Russian ISPs (Home-IX) have agreed to make internal traffic between themselves free and set up at least one additional tracker that tracks only their local IPs. When torrent is downloaded from main site (torrents.ru), it checks whether downloader’s IP belongs to one of Home-IX subnets; if it does, second – local – tracker is automatically added to torrent file, and downloader gets peers both from main tracker (torrents.ru) and local tracker (Home-IX one). The only difference is that (AFAIK) Home-IX ISPs’ servers don’t host actual files since their local users (all with 100 Mbit fast&cheap LAN lines, in contrast to 5-10-20 Mbit Internet lines) eliminate this need from ISPs.
I don’t know how does torrents.ru, being private tracker, deal with users ratios since BitTorrent client report cumulative up/down traffic stats regardless of whether traffic is local or not. In other words, it actually screws U/D ratio for private trackers which (provided they have paranoid admins and/or anti-cheat system) can lead to user bans on such private trackers. So I’d suggest Bezeq Int. users to remove their tracker from private torrents or inform private trackers’ admins of this article if they don’t want to be accused of ratio cheating.

I’ve been protesting against the GREEDY RIAA music industry for years by not buying CD’s or DVD’s, and I don’t download from the net either, it’s the only way I can legally hurt those GREEDY bastards. I started collecting LP’s in the 70′s and had a comprehensive LP collection, then CD’s came out and I started duplicating my LP collection with CD’s, so they have more than doubled their money from me, considering CD prices in the 90′s were 18-20 pounds that’s about $36 (incl inflation), and…then I woke up and realised that I was being ROYALLY SCREWED by the RIAA Music Industry business model, fvck them, they’re just like the horrible greedy wall str bankers. The parallels between greedy wall str bankers and the RIAA Music Industry are many and I depise them with a passion that’s close to fire, but at least wall str isn’t trying to destroy two legitimate technologies, p2p and torrent. So, go…TPB. And one way of protesting against the RIAA Music Industry is by boycotting their products, hit them where it hurts and can bring about their downfall, boycotting is legal and they can’t stop you.

By targeting p2p, torrent and isp technology the GREEDY RIAA fvckers are trying to force you to buy their overpriced DRM’d crap which you can’t share with a friend.

Irate and pissed off old timer who has given his LP and CD collection away, after ripping it for backup purposes :-) FvcK YOU RIAA MUSIC INDUSTRY. If I bump into one of you mafo’s in a dark alley I will rearrange your kneecaps irish style.

Send a medal to the Bezeq guy in charge of this decision.

I hope these guys will keep it running and inspire other ISPs over the world!

Removing/blocking/limiting other trackers from your torrents as well…would that still be “good”?

Doing all this so they can throttle/block almost any international ips…is that still good?

Too bad it only operates in Israel, otherwise I’ll drop my ISP and switch to them :)

OP:
This is a GREAT idea. Speeding up all torrent transfers, regardless of what they contain.

Reducing bandwidth to external and international networks and lowering the costs for the ISP, maybe even reduce the price tag for the customer?

I sure hope more ISPs implement this!

BT revolution!

@all who speak about TPB
Please don’t go off topic!

Because it will look like your Ghostleeching…

Oi, dickhead!

“I am 17 and know more about morals than you freaks.”

Don’t care how old you are – and even if you know about “moral” you seem to fail in “ethics” – and probably are too dumb to tell the differnce! And even worse you even fail in basic mathematics!!!

As for the dubious “news” you have been citing:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/06/07/15/the-pirate-bay-making-over-20000-a-day

who wrote it?
How comes that even the prosecution FAILED to provide any valid numbers for the “income” of TPB when they would be so blatantly “public” as you and those liars you cite claim?

Maybe it is because they are wrong propaganda lies and you are too dumb to tell the difference?

BTW (from YOUR news source!):
“the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of €60,000 per month”

So selling 60,000 a month calculates to income of 20,000 a day?

HOW DUMB ARE YOU?

REALITY CHECK ANYONE????

You are too stupid to check your sources for inconsistencies. And the numbers are probably pure fiction – since not even the prosecution had been able to substantiate any!

All you are babbeling are the lies of others that you copy without checking and you are even too dumb to recognise the contradictions in your own “facts”!

(Are you deeply religious educated? That would fit very well with your attitude in bragging about your “moral” while failing to think in terms of “ethics” – and your obvious incapacity of critical thinking and scrutiny while reproducing what others told you without even noticing the blatant contradiction in the claims that you are purely parroting!)

And by the way: there furthermore will be a differnenc of the retail price someone sells ads and the generated “payments” passed on to the customer – let alone the resulting “profit” after subtracting the costs of operation.

There IS money made from TPB – but it’s probably the profits that ad sellers, hardware vendors and bandwidth suppliers are earning off TPB.

I would wish the boys who actually run TPB WOULD make some money – but the real revenue turnover probably goes into other peoples pockets – those who have NOT been in court!

So if you cry for “reality check” the reality check only shows that you are a dunderhead and have a pretty pathetic and ignorant view on the complexity of the real world.

Grow up – and get some education in critical thinking, scrutiny … and mathematics!

Why do you think that hosting tor files is breaking the law?

So many trolls and RIAA/MPAA parasites in these forums!

This corporates parasites much be paying a fortune to maintain them.

Good this will put them out of business faster!

CONTINUE AND EXPEND THE BOYCOTT!

NO CD, NO DVD NO MOVIE THEATER NO CABLE!

CITIZEN! FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT AND BOYCOTT THE ENTIARTAINEMENT PARASITES!

IF YOU DON’T WE WILL HAVE TO USE MORE EXPEDITIVE METHODS TO SOLVE THE RIAA/MPAA PROBLEM.

“1. If Piratebay were to be earning MILLIONS surely the people convicted would NOT be saying that they cannot pony up the $905,000 each… it would be PEANUTS to them…”

Yeah sure, they would say they have the money and pay. Oh no, they wouldn’t. They would say they do not have the money so they do not have to pay. Seriously, how old are you?
I am 17 and know more about morals than you freaks.

“Gottfrid said that the tracker itself uses an average of 600mbits of bandwidth which increases further at weekends. He also revealed that their current hardware has to be replaced once a year and is currently estimated to be worth $120,000, therefore it is depreciating at the rate of $10,000 each month.”

Not saying that it isn’t true that PB ain’t making a ton of cash. That cannot be proven or disproven, not with our resources. So let’s look at it another way.

1. If Piratebay were to be earning MILLIONS surely the people convicted would NOT be saying that they cannot pony up the $905,000 each… it would be PEANUTS to them…

2. You could claim dishonesty in the part of the Piratebay. But, let’s put this into perspective. Who were the ones who:
- claimed HUGE LOSSES while STILL MAKING PROFITS ANYWAY?
- claimed LOST SALES as 100% GUARANTEED truth, as if they had a divine right for their products to fly off the shelves?
- INFLATED the value of those LOST (UNGUARANTEED) SALES, from a logical value of $0 to OVER NINE MILLION?
- REDEFINE and DEMONIZE the concept of:
a) Non-Bittorrent or FTP, casual, phyiscal product SHARING?
b) Selling products SECOND HAND to another?
c) Trading a given product between friends?
Yep, it’s those middlemen and lobbyists at the entertainment industry. NOT the Piratebay. Pot, meet kettle – unlike Pot, Kettle doesn’t go around randomly making defenseless laymen criminals.

That should be a nice little REALITY CHECK for lobbyists.