Originally Posted by JohnnyJames

I am curious about how comcast is defining "File sharing protocols". And how much legitimate traffic is being caught up by whatever filtering program thay are using?

If it is simple throttling, how do they KNOW who is pirating? Is it a judgement based solely on bandwidth usage?

How much is TOO much? And who decides? Individual companies? This could set the stge for a whole new class of ISP, one that does NOT enforce limits EVER, and in fact, lead to the rise of Torrent-friendly ISP's. Already, ISP's are pretty much free of any legal action from a result of a user's actions.

One aspect for the adult biz would be:

Your customer is a good, paying subscriber of three good networks. Has rebilled again and again. Between the networks there are enough content updates to provide him with 100 gigper month of new porn. He downloads all of it because he loves it, is paying for it, and it is there.

Is your good paying customer going to get throttled? If so, he will probably get angry at YOU. Even if he does realize it's the ISP, he is forced to make a hard choice. Which of the three networks he will continue to use in the face of these new limits.

Just a thought from a different perspective.