Actually, I use bit torrent protocol to transfer large data files from my private server to local box. Several commercial tick data providers do the same, as a matter of fact.
I wonder what ISP rules will be on encrypted traffic. After all, I'm sure there's plenty of companies and government entities that need their packets secure. Will they just cap anything they can't figure out as a stop gap to heavy traffic users using these measures?
Honestly, it shouldn’t matter. I don’t pay my ISP for the content, I pay for the bandwidth and I should be able to use it any way I see fit. Probably. Or block encrypted traffic to anything but some list of approved addresses. People who work from home via VPN are gonna love it.
ISPs shouldn't facilitate piracy, any more than eBay should facilitate Hermès & Vuitton counterfeiting. But this is off the thread topic.
Net neutrality’s dead, battle to resurrect it is beginning An epic power struggle over the future of the internet will play out in the United States this year. Its outcome will determine just how much control broadband companies like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T have over the online content they pipe into homes and offices. The struggle follows last month’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission to scrap Obama-era net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from blocking or slowing down legal content.(MIT Technology Review)