Comcast to face lawsuits over BitTorrent filtering
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| With regard to Comcast's legal liability, von Lohmann said that he could not
| comment as he had not yet had a chance to review the New York anti criminal
| impersonation laws
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9802410-46.html?tag=nefd.blgs
Finally. Comcast plays for the Big Companies amid a transition in power and
distribution:
Free Culture Manifesto
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| The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up,
| participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a top-down,
| closed, proprietary structure. Through the democratizing power of digital
| technology and the Internet, we can place the tools of creation and
| distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and learning into the
| hands of the common person — and with a truly active, connected, informed
| citizenry, injustice and oppression will slowly but surely vanish from the
| earth.
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http://ctkennedy.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/free-culture-manifesto/
Related:
Is Comcast's BitTorrent filtering violating the law?
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| Assuming that the SYN packet goes through, the three-way handshake is allowed
| to happen, then the two hosts will be able to begin communicating. Your ISP
| can still kill the connection later, should they wish to, merely by blocking
| the transmission of future packets.
|
| According to Torrent Freak, Comcast is not doing this. They are instead
| sending a reset (or RST) packet to the Comcast customer, pretending to be
| from the host at the end of the BitTorrent connection.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9769645-46.html
Comcast traffic blocking: even more apps, groupware clients affected
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| Even if you accept the argument that all P2P traffic is inherently evil, and
| that Comcast has the right to disrupt it in order to put a stop to copyright
| infringement, Comcast's traffic-shaping efforts have apparently extended
| beyond the realm of P2P and into good old enterprise groupware. Kevin
| Kanarski, who works as a Lotus Notes messaging engineer, noticed some strange
| behavior with Lotus Notes when hooked up to a Comcast connection last month.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-comcast-traffic-blocking-even-more-apps-groupware-clients-affected.html
Comcast: We’re Delaying, Not Blocking, BitTorrent Traffic
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| The executive declined to talk in detail about the technology, citing
| spammers or other miscreants who might exploit that knowledge.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/comcast-were-delaying-not-blocking-bittorrent-traffic/
Comcast Cuts Off Heavy Internet Users
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| Customers complain bandwidth limits are secret.
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http://consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/08/comcast_ban.html?imw=Y
Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs
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| Torrent indexing site Torrentspy.com appears to have disabled torrent
| searches for IPs that originate in the United States.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/27/1541244&from=rss
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
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| Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their
| BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease
| in download speeds, and even worse, they are unable to seed their downloads.
| A nightmare for people who want to keep up a positive ratio at private
| trackers and for the speed of BitTorrent transfers in general.
|
| [...]
|
| Last year we had a discussion whether traffic shaping is good or bad, and
| ISPs made it pretty clear that they do not like P2P applications like
| BitTorrent. One of the ISPs that joined our discussions said: “The fact is,
| P2P is (from my point of view) a plague - a cancer, that will consume all the
| bandwidth that I can provide. It’s an insatiable appetite.”, and another one
| stated: “P2P applications can cripple a network, they’re like leaches. Just
| because you pay 49.99 for a 1.5-3.0mbps connection doesn’t mean your entitled
| to use whatever protocols you wish on your ISP’s network without them
| provisioning it to make the network experience good for all users involved.”
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http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
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