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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."
Well, that and retards such as the one who invented it.
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Major ISP's in the US have told me in meetings that P2P makes up 70-80% of their total traffic. Do you really believe that the majority of this is legal content?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
No one cares. There may be "legal" torrents, but there is absolutely no legitimate reason to distribute content using DDoSTorrent. Sorry, BitTorrent, it's just so hard to tell the difference between BitTorrent and a DDoS attack on a network.
If you want to distribute your content, then pay for it! There are hosting services that offer hosting for $10/month (or less) that will offer several terabytes of download and a gig or so of storage. There are free services out there that will allow you to upload content for users to access.
Or you could always just charge users directly for associated costs with offering torrents.
Blizzard especially should be utterly ashamed for using BitTorrent instead of hosting their patches themselves. There is no excuse for not hosting the patch themselves. If their network can't handle the load, I'm sure Akamai can help.
There's no excuse for using BitTorrent, ever. A straight FTP connection will run faster, and if you want to distribute content, you should be willing to pay for it. All BitTorrent does is DDoS people's networks, and prevent other users from accessing anything. If you think otherwise, you've never done IT on a network where BitTorrent was running.
Please write that out long hand 1000 times.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Can't believe you got modded troll for this. As far as I can tell this is exactly the situation.
You must work for an airline.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Only if you're not willing to spend money on real hosting. Otherwise it's just a massive waste of a scarce resource: upload bandwidth. Most consumer connections have more download bandwidth than upload bandwidth, so BitTorrent will always be slower than FTP.
Learn how it works. BitTorrent's protocol is a MASSIVE bandwidth hog.
Either distribute your content in a reasonable way, or understand that Comcast, along with any responsible network operator, will have to block it because it causes too much useless traffic.