Program Title: Michael Geist Interview
Description: Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, talks about the upcoming changes in Bell and Rogers’ policies of “traffic shaping� or “bandwidth throttling.�

The resulting interview uncovers potential dangers of leaving industry of access providers to their own devices, as these policies impact negatively both the consumers and businesses. For one, CBC’s latest claim to fame, using BitTorrent to distribute their show (which is, by the way, the greatest thing ever) ended in a fiasco as users experienced an extreme delay, resulting in downloads taking up to 11 hours.

This was due to recent bandwidth throttling policies that slow down traffic from certain apps and IPs, BitTorrent in CBC example. As a result, we have access providers that act as content distributors and censors, as they render certain applications virtually unusable.

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Host(s): Irma Arkus
Featured Speakers/Guests: Dr. Michael Geist

Credits: Irma Arkus of Hi-Sci-Fi on CJSF

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