Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @03:37PM 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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Re:High praise, coming -as it is, from EFG himself by pete6677 · 2007-11-14 16:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The funny thing about the Mac comment is that it was so true. Modern Macs are better, but I remember in the late 90s when every Mac was supposedly faster than its PC counterpart but in real life took longer to do damn near everything. I actually like the newer Macs but my God why did anyone buy them before about 2004?