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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 strength_of_10_men · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe comcast will start delivering what people paid for.
    It's sad that I don't know whether to mod this FUNNY, INSIGHTFUL, or REDUNDANT.
  2. Re:Pay to steal by calebt3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually, I was serious about not transferring anything but Linux ISOs. I don't have/want any songs/videos. Legal or otherwise.

  3. Re:Government-granted monopoly leads to no alt. IS by StarkRG · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I see a few problems with this post. First off moderations top out at +5, and this is clearly a +500 post. Secondly there is a limited selection of categories, "Insightful" is just the best choice available: there's no "absofreakinlutely!" There's no visible "clone user and place clones in high government office" button. Once these things are rectified, I think this post would be the event favorite for the "best post ever" award. It would definitely be in the running for the Miss SlashdotPost Universe competition.

    This is one of those posts that they should make copies of, freeze a few of them in carbonite as backups for future generations, broadcast several into space in all directions under various encodings and frequencies, make into posters, and finally amend to the constitution in several places, just to make sure it's noticed...

    The Internet is the Internet. It's not my internet, it's not your internet, and it definitely isn't Comcast's internet.