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Will BitTorrent’s switch to UDP kill the internet?

It is said that P2P traffic accounts for nearly half of the bandwidth consumed on the Internet. It is believed by some that this usage is a fraction of what is possible were it not for the ease in which TCP traffic is managed for the sake of QoS. With the announcement that makers of BitTorrent intend to use UDP — a relatively unmanaged counterpart — some believe that core infrastructure of the Internet will be crushed once this traffic escapes local ISPs.

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