Internet is peer to peer. If you are a victim of packet beancounters, the onus is on you to filter your traffic and apps to conform.

I take responsibility for making my software behave the way users expect.

I would expect other developers to do the same.

This "well you should have known about obscure UNIX command X" stuff is both why software still sucks, and why business people make mega bucks while technical people are capped at $120K salaries.

This. Under no impression from the Spotify website (although Im sure its buried in the T&C somewhere), or from what people say about it via word of mouth etc etc..what the application is MARKETED as; that it streams music to you for your listening expereince.

All "well p2p saves them server cost, reduces latency etc" bullshit aside. No-one EXPECTS that of the application. Its deception. Plain and simple. A vast amount of users don't expect this of the application and that could lead to plenty of consequences unbeknownst to them. Plenty of good reasons have popped up in this thread (data plans being eaten, people with limits imposed by their ISP, work environment concerns)

TL;DR Its negligent of spotify to market for one thing, and then include something like this in such a hidden and unmodifiable sort of way in their program. You want it in there? Fine. Tell me about it up front and give me some control over the upload speed

I disagree. The average user has no time, patience, or knowledge (nor should they) of how firewalls or bandwidth throttling works.

If you listen off of the mobile app, it's not p2p. I would recommend that if your phone is right next to your computer

He said he's running Spotify on his MacBook, it's just tethered to a mobile phone.

Hammock is aware of this, he is suggesting that nthj use his iPhone to stream the music instead of his MacBook.

absolutely. easy enough solution now that I know this obscure piece of technical information.

I don't see anybody offering to refund my lost bandwidth, though.