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Originally Posted by Mutt
Apgood makes a good point - what if Comcast or any ISP decided that their porn surfing users are so busy always downloading that it creates problems for the rest of their users so they started interfering with porn traffic.
i think Comcast's explanation sounds reasonable - so many customers just leaving their computers on 24/7 trading files on torrents and other P2P networks. I think if they had their way they would put a cap on heavy users but I know my ISP tried that and I think there was enough customer backlash that they dropped it. So Comcast rather than do that capped them without letting them know.
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thats making a huge leap, in the same sense and logic they could block myspace because people spend too much time on the site eating up bandwidth. You don't have to worry about this turning into a moral or political thing, it has eveything to do about bandwidth and profit.
The core problem for the residential internet providers is that massive amounts of bandwidth is being used by people using p2p. I don't see what the big deal is, throttle their usage to reasonable amount of transfer. It doesn't matter WHAT they are downloading or making available for download, it is how much they are doing.