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Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices

4 pointsby cliffover 16 years ago

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DabAsteroidover 16 years ago
<i>Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic -- maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.<p>The cable concern said (.pdf) it indeed hit "particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic." The peer-to-peer protocols, Comcast said, include Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella -- vehicles used to transport copyrighted material without the owners' permission.<p>On Aug. 1, when the FCC ordered it to abandon its throttling practices, Comcast denied that it was blocking any services including "peer-to-peer services" like BitTorrent or engaged in any blocking of services.</i><p>Here is the .pdf:<p><a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/comcastic.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/comcastic.pdf</a>