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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?"

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  1. Re:So don't use them. by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You do realize, don't you, that without government regulation and interference in the telecommunications industry, the net as we know it would not exist?

    It's only because of government's action against AT&T that started with the Carterphone case, continued with Sprint and culminated in the breakup of AT&T that we have the web.

    I can explain further if none of this rings a bell. (no pun intended.)

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