The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT   Bell Canada
chokes P2P and privacy?    What's worse than an ISP throttling
your peer-to-peer traffic? An ISP throttling your peer-to-peer
traffic while stepping on your privacy.  Late last week, the
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
fired a letter to the country's privacy czar, urging an
investigation into the traffic shaping practices of mega telco
Bell Canada. The University of Ottawa-affiliated law clinic
suspects that Bell is not just throttling BitTorrent and other
peer-to-peer traffic, but illegally monitoring the activities of
millions of Canuck web surfers.  In March, Bell Canada admitted
to shaping P2P traffic on its own DSL-based ISP, Sympatico, as
well as third-party ISPs that piggyback on its pipes. That's
right, it's curbing packets on someone else's network.  "As a
service provider, we have to ensure no individual or group is
negatively impacting the majority’s internet access," Bell
Canada spokesman Pierre LeClerq tells