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Comcast Interfering in P2P Traffic
By Robert | October 26, 2007
There is a lot of debate going on around Comcast. The company is accused of utilizing an aggressive king of traffic shaping, which impersonates P2P clients and forces their computers to disconnect. It is interesting to note that Comcast has legal back up through the terms of use that say the company reserves the privilege of refusing to “upload, post, publish, transmit or store” any bit of info that appears to be in violation of the terms of use and that is considered undesirable.
On the other hand, many individuals appear to combat the decision of impersonating users’ computers because we might be faced with an illegal action. In many states we can see that there are different laws against impersonation. For instance in
One thing that is interesting is that many companies have reported the fact that they are considering legal action against this behavior. Comcast did reply to the attacks and stated that the company does not block user access to online applications or web sites, including P2P services like BitTorrent. They also claim that they want to provide a good user Internet experience and the latest technologies are utilized in order to make the customers enjoy the applications. Unfortunately for Comcast, one executive inside the company did declare to The New York Times that they are manipulating traffic by using data management technologies, which aim to conserve bandwidth. P2P traffic is delayed according to this anonymous source.
Whatever the case really is, it must be top priority for Comcast to deal with this problem because they will soon face legal charges if it is proved that they are somehow impersonating users’ computers or they are interfering on Internet traffic in a damaging way.
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