Comcast Screws With File-Sharing Traffic
 

Read article here.

Could it be...

ADG

imagine the bandwidth it eats up.

The original AP article is really funny. It is VERY one sided and written by a "free the web for everything" sort of treehugger that has to make you wonder.

Comcast and other ISPs provide bandwidth to their customers for their own personal non-commercial use. What sites like skype, bit torrent, joost, and many others do is turn the users computers into nodes and profit from that bandwidth to run their products. If a few major ISPs started to block out Skype packets, example, they would likely die off within a very short period of time.

Bandwidth leech companies will all face a day of reckoning sometime in the near future, as ISPs will move to flick the switch.

Yet another reason not to use Comcast, as if their shitty service wasn't enough. I used to have them, fucking up and down constantly. Users stuck with them can just as easily encrypt their traffic and run over port 80 to evade any bullshit.

-1bit, you need to check out the technology they are using, sliding over to port 80 isn't going to work for the most part (because the traffic patterns are different from a website, amongst other things).

The company that developed this product is probably going to make ass loads of money. It doesn't entirely block the process all the time, but it makes it very, very slow and limits the ISP's bandwidth requirements.