RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

["Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck () hiberniaatlantic com>]

That misses the point. They are probably being forced to adapt by a monopoly or a quasi-monopoly or by the fact that 
transport into Australia is extremely expensive. The situation outside of Australia is quite different. A DS3 from 
Sydney to LA is worth about 10 DS3s NYC/London. 

It is not impossible to move people to these price schemes, but in a market with many providers, it is highly risky. 

A simpler and hence less costly approach for those providers serving mass markets is to stick to flat rate pricing and 
outlaw high-bandwidth applications that are used by only a small number of end users. 

Roderick S. Beck
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