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Comcast Invests in P2P

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the evil-until-it-saves-the-man-some-money dept.

AHTuttle writes to mention Comcast, recently under fire for throttling P2P traffic, has decided to invest in a P2P video-delivery startup called GridNetworks. "Seattle-based GridNetworks on Monday said that Comcast would make an unspecified investment in the company and collaborate on developing so-called peer-to-peer file-sharing techniques that are 'friendly' to Internet service providers."

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  1. Is anyone really surprised? by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's the age-old philosophy of "understand or destroy." Once they realize something can make or save them huge bucks, they'll no longer demonize it. Or at least not their own brand of it...

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  2. Re:Meanwhile, I still have issues with BT... by Darby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you have Comcast or Cox Cable, it is a good bet to blame the ISP first.

    That's true, but don't fall into the trap of thinking it must be so.
    We recently moved to a VOIP system at my work, and we have a lot of employees who work from home. Some of them are having problems. They can make a call, it connects, but no audio. One of my first thoughts was, "Stupid ISPs blocking traffic to sell their voice service". Our tech from the company we bought the system from took a phone that worked fine connecting to our office from their office to his house where he has Comcast and it failed the same way, lending another data point on that side.
    I took my phone home today, plugged it in and it works fine and I'm also on Comcast in the same area.
    My boss did the same and we had a nice clear conversation.
    So I can't blame Comcast on that one. I'd like to blame my users (obvious next step), but as of right now, I think it's probably just an issue with certain brands of home firewall/routers. Of course, if more than two
    users had even responded to our request for issues, I might have more data upon which to base my opinion.

    So, while it's good to keep in mind that they're sleazy operators and *will* lie about it, other things still fuck up ;-)