Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic

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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Re:Why not charge by the GB delivered?

[janrinok]

No, please calm down. i know that Tor has lot of valid uses - I am a frequent user of it and have been since I was employed by my government. Even though I am now retired I can still see its benefits. But using it for torrents is not a good use because it affects more than just yourself, so much so that the people who support it ask you not to do so. But feel free to ignore them - your purchase of towels or downloading of Ubuntu is much more important than that of those who might have to use it professionally, you know, such as the FBI and other federal investigative agencies. And not only American ones, at that. Gosh, what a big wide world we live in..... No offence meant, but some obviously taken.