Maybe it will stop people who are seeding popular torrents 24/7 like the latest movies that are out in theatres.
A normal user probably uses 2-3 GB per month at most.
A pirate user probably uses 40 GB per month.
If we say that you upload as much as you download, then it is really only 125 GB. With the average pirated movie being either 700MB or 1.3 GB, then the average is around 1GB.
So 125 pirated movies = 200 hours of content.
Or if you watch TV shows, then 4 30-minute TV shows = 2 1-hour TV shows = 1 2 hour movie, so roughly the same.
And that is 6.5 hours of watching per day.
I think that is way more than enough pirating and I don't think that it is characteristic of a normal human being.
Do you think that Comcast cares about your intellectual property? If you can't pirate on Comcast, you will switch to an ISP that lets you pirate stuff. So I think that Comcast sat down and figured out how many GB/month it takes for them to lose money.
And Comcast isn't even going to kick you off or limit access if you go over 250 GB in a month. They may send you a warning, and then charge you for the extra.
And for the record, I download some movies with torrents. Sometimes, you need something right away and sometimes, you can't find a particular movie in the store so you have no other option. On average, I rip off about 3 or 4 movies a month.
And I think that at least 90% of the people on this board pirate stuff, especially the ones who whine about their content getting stolen.
And they won't dare limit P2P traffic again. Just look:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25676395/