Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking

CRISTAROL writes "Comcast has been sued by a California resident for blocking BitTorrent and other traffic. 'John Hart describes himself as a Comcast customer who has seen performance hits when using "Blocked Applications" targeted by Comcast's traffic management application, Sandvine. In his complaint, Hart says that Comcast severely limits "the speed of certain internet applications such as peer-to-peer file sharing and lotus notes [sic]." Comcast accomplishes this by "transmitting unauthorized hidden messages" to the PCs of those using the applications.' The lawsuit comes on the heels of an FCC complaint over the same issue."

Comments

Re:Slashdot...

[Lord Kano]

Fuck every single one of you.

No thanks. Your mom wore me us out.

LK

Pay to steal

[The_Abortionist]

P2P = stealing

There's no Robin Hood here. Downloaders hurt people: law abiding customers who have there own products degraded by the action of a few, and obviously, all the people who have the rug stolen from under their feet (the artists amongst others).

I think that Comcast is acting in good faith here and in the interests of its best customers.

Let's stop cheering for criminals, please.

Re:Pay to steal

[The_Abortionist]

http://www.novell.com/news/press/microsoft-and-novell-celebrate-year-of-interoperability-expand-collaboration-agreement/

Do you use SUSE? If so, when the shoe doesn't fit, you don't have to force it. But everytime someone downloads RedHat (for example), someone in India has to skip a meal... And that's why Tux is so fat, BTW.