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Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the whoa-there-fella dept.

FsG writes "Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn't seem to discriminate between legitimate and infringing torrent traffic, and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren't helping. If more ISPs adopt their strategy, could this mean the end of BitTorrent?"

6 of 537 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why not charge by the GB delivered? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't this be a monumental pain in the ass to administer and enforce?

  2. Re:Why not charge by the GB delivered? by longword · · Score: 5, Funny

    We just have to invent some kind of "computational" device to automate the process...

  3. Re:solution by S.O.B. · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ISPs advertise it as "Retarded Way of Doing Shit(TM)"

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  4. Re:solution by FrivolousPig · · Score: 4, Funny

    AOL of course

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  5. Re:Why not charge by the GB delivered? by wakingrufus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hello Verizon

  6. Re:solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like instead of BT and sharing/seeding its time to go back to serious piracy with 0day ftp / irc botnets to hold my content. Here I was trying to play nice. I wondered why last week all my ratios went to shit with plenty of seeds.