Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents

An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that Comcast, like the Great Firewall of China uses forged TCP Reset (RST) packets to do the job. While the Chinese government can do what they want, it turns out that Comcast may actually be violating criminal impersonation statutes in states around the country. Simply put, while it's legal to block traffic on your network, forging data to and from customers is a big no-no."

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I have an idea...

[joeytmann]

How about all the users of bittorent downloading linux distro's and public domain movies convince all the users of bittorrent that download pirated movies/mp3s ripped from CDs/cracked software/etc to stop doing so...then comcasts crap-tastic network wouldn't be saturated with bittorrent traffic and they wouldn't be trying to stop bittorrent at all.

Yeah, not very realistic. Too bad a fuck-ton of rotten eggs are out there ruining it for the rest that want to use the software to download legal software.