Time Warner Cable gives porn sites a boost

[RawAlex]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080117/D8U7KREO0.html

TW looks to be moving away from the "all you can eat" unlimited downloads and moving towards a tiered system, charging more as user use more bandwidth.

Dudley said that a small group of super-heavy users of downloads, around 5 percent of the customer base, can account for up to 50 percent of network capacity.

Effectively, it is probably one of the best ways for these operators to shut down or limit people's desire to use P2P networks. I think that capped network usage may in the end be a boost to regular porn sites, because people may move away from the P2P networks to avoid paying excessive bandwidth bills.

This is also a move that would be a slap in the face to Skype, Joomla, and other P2P style file spreading / bandwidth leeching services. It also sort of flies into the face of the Apple movie distribution via Itunes.