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		rabidsnail on Sept 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo A... Hate to rain on your parade, but ISP-level NAT is coming (it's already here on mobile) and it breaks P2P. Hole-punching doesn't work, you can't manually open ports, and they don't support UPnP. If everyone is behind a nat who is left to tunnel through? Why, a central platform! Skype already went down this road.

jordanthoms on Sept 3, 2012 | [–]

Hopefully ISPs will be smart enough to provide native ipv6 before they start doing NAT on their ipv4 addresses.

rabidsnail on Sept 4, 2012 | | [–]

Given that they're all also cable tv providers, I'm not sure how smart providing ipv6 would be.

btbuilder on Sept 4, 2012 | [–]

Why would UDP holepunching be affected?

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