When a good post goes bad….Techcrunch had the information to get a post going the right direction and then something else happened.

The logic in this post on Techcrunch leaves me shaking my head:  click here to read source

We somehow went from Comcast implementing a 250GB monthly transfer cap on Cable Internet customers in North America to proclaiming the end of Bittorent in favor of Streaming Media.  Dude….wait….what?  Did I suddenly just get a contact high off Mr. Gillmor?

I detest Comcast's filtering of P2P traffic as much as the next person, and I believe this new "solution" is as short-sighted and ignorant of the direction the Internet is heading as their filtering "solution" was; however I am far from declaring BT dead!  I am sure there are BT users out there that far exceed 250GB per month and they will be impacted by this, but really, it is future usage by legitamate users that will suffer from this policy.  That is unless Comcast keeps it's policy in line with the pace of growing usage of Youtube, Online TV, etc.  (I doubt it will, but we shall see.)

Is Streaming Media usage going to grow?  Absolutely!  I think Mr. Gillmor has a partially correct theory, but the logic in his post is so flawed it is incredible it was allowed to be posted.  Perhaps Techcrunch is becoming the new central location for talking heads of the Internet Generation?  It seems daily, if not hourly, they are increasingly declaring what is "dead".