Internet service providers (ISP) have reacted angrily to the European Parliament's decision to outlaw Web caching under amendments to copyright laws. The ISP industry is deeply concerned about the impact this could have on the Internet.
UUNET - the descendant of early UK ISP, Pipex - is owned by MCI WorldCom, the aggressive US telecoms and Internet group which has built a global fibre network. The full interview with Richard Heyes can be seen on Silicon.com's ISP Channel.
PeerCache plugs in to the ISP network and temporarily caches FastTrack P2P traffic, helping to lessen the bandwidth burden. One should bear in mind that [whether] an ISP is caching a file or not does not make the file more or less available for end...
Postini has 100s of ISP partners which could provide a lucrative route to market for its new web-filtering offering. Managed services keep unwanted content at arm's length, saving the company bandwidth and storage space.
Tiscali, which also owns Pipex, has been the most vocal ISP on this subject and has stated in the past it believes content providers such as the BBC should foot the bill for upgrading networks to cope with the content they're now churning out.
He said doing so would mean users wouldn't know which content works well through their chosen ISP or which content is throttled due to non-payment by content providers. BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at ISPs who want online...
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