Is BitTorrent traffic good for ISP?

Nowadays, BitTorrent is going popular and No. of BitTorrent users have being increased every year.
I mean to say that,
As an ISP, is BitTorrent traffic good financially?

Present your views and reason.

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I was thinking that it is not good for ISP because ISP has trouble in giving committed speed to their users because of Bit Torrent traffic. BitTorrent traffic bothers a lot to ISP servers. It is a network nuisance.
About cost, it is costly to afford for ISP.

i think BT is good for ISPs if there are more seeders on their network. mgcarley has indicated that if international ISPs download data from you, it helps your overall internet bill?

The high usage plans with higher speeds, with as much liberal FUP as possible are opted by subscribers just due to Bit Torrent traffic. Home users are freely going for high cost plans, that offer good speed, and as reasonable FUP as possible.

i think BT is good for ISPs if there are more seeders on their network. mgcarley has indicated that if international ISPs download data from you, it helps your overall internet bill?

Yeah buddy.
It is cheap and profitable as an ISP only if ISP has the largest network in whole nation.

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The high usage plans with higher speeds, with as much liberal FUP as possible are opted by subscribers just due to Bit Torrent traffic. Home users are freely going for high cost plans, that offer good speed, and as reasonable FUP as possible.
They implement FUP to earn more profit if they have network in whole nation. I said that I was thinking that BitTorrent is costly to afford for an ISP.

But when I read following article and discussion carrying out on this forum by mgcarley.
Source:
Large ISPs Profit From BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds | TorrentFreak

Bit-torrent is not that bandwidth intensive. Heck, youtube eats up much more bandwidth than torrents.

Bit-torrent is not that bandwidth intensive. Heck, youtube eats up much more bandwidth than torrents.
Yeah but not like BitTorrent.
In youtube, videos' quality are set as per default setting which is 360p. If I consider speed in India and usage allowance, nobody uses beyond 480p even I tried a lot to play videos with 720p but I could not because of less speed.
In BitTorrent, most of users download files having minimum size 700MB which is movie DVD rip size and some are fond of downloading Games which average file size is 1GB.
As per statistic revealed and which I read on internet, BitTorrent sucks a lot usage rather than video. Users prefer to watch youtube videos but they prefer quality if they watch movies on youtube. The best source to download quality movie is BitTorrent which gives contents free of cost.

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Youtube servers are powered by Google.
So, as I know, nearest node for us to get contents from youtube is in Australia. So, it will be more cheap to afford.
But BitTorrent traffic will be more cheap than video streaming if it is national. Otherwise, it will be depend on location.

youtube is actually working on a variable speed technology that might be launched in the near future. it should be nice to have.

variable speed technology

Whats that thing now?

its simple. youtube would change the video quality automatically while playing the video depending upon how much bandwidth is available. this technology is already used by lots of services including Hulu.

I have used Hulu and the variable speed technology is meh. Though proxy servers could be ruining it for me.

i have noticed this technology at work on daily show videos. works brilliantly. i can notice the video quality improving when it can get more bandwidth.

i doubt this embed would work.

The Correspondents Explain - Political Parties - The Socialist Party - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/22/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

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they seem to have removed the option to see the video streaming details.

Yeah some online streaming websites have adopted it but there are certain(basic) requirements to fulfill like minimum speed 64kbps.

you are living in the wrong world if you think that video streaming services would support 64kbps.

you are living in the wrong world if you think that video streaming services would support 64kbps.

it was just an example but some hosts offer at that speed if user has premium service. Especially online TV and premium cricket.. Yeah, video quality is not so good. It is similar to mobile video quality.
Hosts automatically choose nearest server location. Probably in same country from where user is accessing service.

Most of users might have noticed when they watch online cricket. They might have felt that they are unable to watch youtube videos constantly where as they are able to watch cricket with breakage but video quality varies a lot.

Bit-torrent is not that bandwidth intensive. Heck, youtube eats up much more bandwidth than torrents.

i don't think so at least for bigger ISP's like Airtel. Most probably Bharti has a very large Youtube cache in India. I had downloaded two youtube vids through Atel and they showed some bhart.oo.cache link.....
As per as i last read & remember utube has some 50TB of content so not a big problem to 'cache' it up. of course they cant cache Torrents as it is illegal so all end up in throttling etc stuff.