Het veelal vermakelijke ValleyWag (internetroddels) schrijft over YouTube, netneutraliteit en het afknijpen van verkeer:

"(...) YouTube uses Limelight Networks to deliver [Update: some of] its video. (Limelight's revenues have grown about 36% recently, according to a client. Nearly all of that is from YouTube.) Limelight's broadband providers know that. They're starting the Limelight slowdown, via a technology called packet shaping. In other words, Net Neutrality is over. (...)"

Wikipedia schrijft over packet/traffic shaping:

"(...) In the last year many ISPs have begun using Traffic Shaping software to curb the usage of BitTorrent and other Peer-to-Peer filesharing systems, such as DC++ and Soulseek. Nominally their reasoning behind these actions would be to decrease jitter and packet loss, but the truth of the matter is that many of them offer unlimited bandwidth at a certain speed and filesharing systems swallow a greater than anticipated amount of that bandwidth. Many have opted for traffic shaping (also referred to as "throttling") to manage the usage of this bandwidth, prioritising web browsing and on-line gaming over Peer-to-Peer traffic and ftp downloads, either because they are unable to upgrade their bandwidth fast enough, or as an alternative to upgrading their bandwidth. The unfortunate side-effect to this system is it comes across as ISPs attempting to attack and stop Peer-to-Peer connections, a perfectly legal system of data transfer (...)"

Met dank aan de reageerder die onder deze posting over Skype/ddos uitvoerig informeerde over overboeking en afknijpen bij ISP's.