Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @05:35AM from the you-have-made-the-intertubes-cranky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported that Comcast is engaged in a sneaky form of Internet filtering. The company is terminating its customers' BitTorrent sessions by sending misleading data onto the network. The end result is that instead of targeting key heavy users, Comcast is instead engaged in an all out war against P2P protocols. In an interview with CNET, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann states that Comcast is 'throwing a spanner in the works of the Internet, hoping that this will somehow reduce bandwidth usage overall.' Other lawyers seem to have smelled blood, and are circling in the water. Lohmann reveals that '[The EFF has] already been contacted by attorneys who are considering legal action against Comcast.' Could Comcast be facing a class-action?"

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Re:I don't know by moogied · 2007-10-23 05:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

To the retard that modded me down: Wanna get off your lazy ass and perhaps comment what exactly was over rated about that? No? Wow.. Slashdots awesome mod system to the rescue again.. Lazy ass.

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Re:It's not just P2P -- Lotus Notes traffic also! by UbuntuDupe · 2007-10-23 10:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yes, and what's worse, those knaves are stealing the axles on my horse carriage.

Hey, as long as it's pretend history day...

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