The patentdescribes P2P in general as something that can be positive, but is often abused.
While the P2P infrastructure has many advantages, it also has led to abuses.
Piracy of digital assets on peer-to-peer networks incurs losses by content owners estimated in billions of dollars annually.
The high volume traffic produced by BitTorrent pirates also poses a problem for ISPs.
Pirates tend to strain the internet, which can become costly in terms of resources, the patent explains.
To address these issues NBC Universal proposes to monitor file-sharing swarms.
To use swarm data to limit or block file-sharing traffic is the most controversial suggestion.
According to the patent, this may be useful for ISPs to save costs.
Source:TorrentFreak
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