Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic

An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has been singled out as discriminating against filesharing traffic in quantitative tests conducted by the Associated Press. MSNBC's coverage of the discovery is quite even-handed. The site notes that while illegal content trading is a common use of the technology, Bittorrent is emerging as an effective medium for transferring 'weighty' legal content as well. 'Comcast's technology kicks in, though not consistently, when one BitTorrent user attempts to share a complete file with another user. Each PC gets a message invisible to the user that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer -- it comes from Comcast.'" This is confirmation of anecdotal evidence presented by Comcast users back in August.

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Yea, right

[pilsner.urquell]

As we all know, BitTorrent is only used in illegal activity.

I'm outraged!

[Kohath]

This is the worst Internet injustice since the last thing that had Slashdot's panties in a wad. And that one was so horrible that everyone forgot about it.

On the other hand...

[pushing-robot]

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Oh noes!

[Anonymous Coward]

Comcast hit it on the head! Filesharing technology is only used for pirating! But this is only the tip of the iceberg!

There's this whole infrastructure that's being used to pirate material every day! It's this insidious thing called "the internet". Comcast better hurry up and block everyone from trying to access that as well, least they be tempted to violate copyright laws!

In other news: Hammer sales in u.s. up by 30%

[unity100]

what goes around, comes around as a hammer.

Re:LOL

[Howitzer86]

You could relocate, that'll show em!!

Nothing says you hate a service more than if you were to rip up the foundation of your life, career, and family just to avoid them.

Re:you know ...

[glindsey]

Oh, yeah, I'm a whole thirty miles out of downtown Chicago. Holy cow, I must be plowin' fields n' chawin' tobbacky! GIT ON THE TRACTOR, MA! WE'S A-GOIN' TO SEE THEM THAR CITY FOLK!