Bandwidth Throttling

Currently, BitTorrent traffic is suffering from bandwidth throttling ISPs that claim that BitTorrent traffic is cluttering their pipes.

BitTorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol CacheLogic and BitTorrent introduce an open-source Cache Discovery Protocol (CDP) that allows ISPs to cache and seed BitTorrent traffic. Currently, BitTorrent traffic is suffering from bandwidth throttling ISPs that claim that BitTorrent traffic is cluttering their pipes. This motivated the developers of the most popular BitTorrent clients implement protocol encryption to protect BitTorrent users from being slowed down by their ISP's. However, Bram Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent doubted that encryption was the solution, and found (together with CacheLogic) a more ISP friendly alternative.