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Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-us-pirate-music-at-a-reasonable-speed dept.

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."

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  1. Re:About time by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, it's cheaper to buy a few more politicians.

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  2. Re:Government-granted monopoly leads to no alt. IS by timmarhy · · Score: 3, Funny

    they don't do any of that now, whats your point?

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  3. Re:Government-granted monopoly leads to no alt. IS by PhxBlue · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think about what the Internet would be like if ISPs couldn't block customers for spamming, spreading worms, DoS attacks, etc.
    They do that now? I hadn't noticed.
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  4. Re:Pay to steal by calebt3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use P2P for transferring Linux ISOs. And nothing else.

  5. Re:Pay to steal by The_Abortionist · · Score: 0, Funny

    Taken from my own signature: "Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents."

    One way or another, P2P is almost always stealing. Especially when it's Linux ISOs!!!

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  6. Re:Pay to steal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hows that new copy of Big.Tits.And.Black.Dicks.xvid.x64-linux working out for you?

  7. Re:Any chance for a.... by toadlife · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "make believe world" I live in is called "Central California". In this fantasy land, the local telco is called "At&T (aka, SBC)". In this fake ISP's ToS, there is are no restrictions on running servers, and there are no bandwidth caps. Back when I used to participate in pretend live music trading at a pretend website called etree, I would push 100GB per month for months on end and never had an issue.

    I'm sorry if DSL is crap in your area. It's not in mine.

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  8. Re:Pay to steal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And Lotus Notes? That's blocked too- is that stealing?

    Stealing sanity, one database at a time.
  9. Re:Pay to steal by blackdew · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know that only terorists use linux, and only pirates use p2p. If you download linux via bittorent you must be a terorist-pirate. Allahu-Akbar-Yarr!

  10. Re:Pay to steal by Serengeti · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Allahu-Akbar-Yarr!"

    Whoaaa!! Watch it with the stereotypes, pal!! You should be more careful than that!! Pirates haven't said "Yarr!" in centuries!

  11. Whoops! by UncleMidriff · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what happens if I decide to be a moron for a moment and accidentally rate your comment down instead of up, like I intended?

    Do I have to buy you a pizza or something?

    Oh, I see...I just post this comment and undo my mistake. That's nice.

    If you would still like a pizza, just let me know.