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Relationships between the BBC and internet industry have plunged to an all-time low, after the BBC’s internet chief Ashley Highfield used a blog post yesterday to tell ISPs to get stuffed - and even threatened to name and shame them.

The cost of carrying iPlayer traffic has been a sore point for ISPs, who must absorb steeply rising traffic costs. Regulator OFCOM’s Market Impact Assessment estimated the P2P version of iPlayer would create up to £831m in extra costs for the internet industry. In the first month of the “low bandwidth” iPlayer, ISPs saw streaming costs rise 20 per cent.

But Highfield, Director of Future Media and Technology at the £4bn-a-year corporation, said the BBC won’t help them out.

“I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content providers,” he scolds.

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So, the BBC pushes peer to peer technology, gets the user to hammer the crap out of their ISP service as if it were uncontended and then blames the ISPs when they pipe up and remind everyone that bandwidth isn’t free. Lovely…