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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 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!