Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic

haibijon writes "The executive declined to talk in detail about the technology, citing spammers or other miscreants who might exploit that knowledge. But he insisted the company was not stopping file transfers from happening, only postponing them in certain cases. He compared it to making a phone call and getting a busy signal, then trying again and getting through."

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Re:He compares it to a phone call....

[ednopantz]

The file stealers constitute some massive percentage of total Tube usage, so it is more accurate to say something like:

9 of 10 treadmills are being used by people doing [illegal activity that they explicitly agreed they wouldn't do when they signed up]. One opens up and Mr. I'm going to do [insert illegal...] gets to the front of the line. He is told to wait while somebody else uses the treadmill for something that isn't [illegal... ]. He fumes, rages, and uses the stationary bike to post to Slashdot. Then he hangs out in the weight area making grunting noises (You Tube is still ok too).

Now, to lay off the analogies:

Looks to me like Comcast oversells capacity (like basically every other utility does), and it trying to get around this problem by hitting back at the folks who are clogging up The Tubes with stuff they agreed they wouldn't do in the first place. I'm not exactly sympathetic to the whining from the folks trying to get a movie without paying for it.