Michael Geist posted a great article today on what Rogers is doing to "fight" peer-to-peer sharing.

To sum it all up Rogers is analyzing traffic and throttling the bandwidth of what it suspects is p2p traffic. P2P clients have turned around and started encrypting packets to fight this tactic. So Rogers turns around and now throttles all encrypted traffic. The obvious side effect of this is that encrypted email, SSL, vpn, and all sorts of other encrypted traffic is now going to run slower on their network.

I am just amazed at this tactic. I don't see why the networks care about p2p traffic. P2P is legal in Canada for one so no reason to block there. Secondly it could be a bandwidth issue but when a person buys an account they purchase so much bandwidth per month (so technically Rogers is selling something and then making it impossible to use all of it by doing something perfectly legal on your account). Thirdly, what are they thinking by throttling encrypted traffic (as if encryption does not already add its own overhead).

I am just shocked at this and am glad I am not on Rogers network (If we even can be here in Alberta).