New York - Broadband provider Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will not be policing its own network for illegal file-sharing and reports that a recent test it conducted revealed that the new P4P protocol provides a significant boost in download performance while simultaneously reducing network congestion.

Ars Technica has spoken to Verizon senior technologist and P4P workgroup co-chair Doug Pasko, who tells the website that Verizon observed download performance improvements of approximately 200% during tests conducted with Pando, in some cases as much as 600%.

Unlike AT&T, Verizon claims to have no intention of policing its own network, according to Ars Technica.

Regardless of the implications for piracy, Verizon believes that P4P is an important step towards solving the problems that peer-based file transfer technologies pose to network management.

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