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Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C. A. Bambenek)
Fri Oct 19 15:12:59 2007

Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:10:45 -0500
From: "John C. A. Bambenek" <bambenek@gmail.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20071019185049.0820a5e0@berkshire.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


I love how the framed it as "data discrimination".  Let's just be
honest... 99% of it was illegal traffic taking up far more than their
fair share of bandwidth.

On 10/19/07, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination.html
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination-Tests.html
>
> Not a lot more I can say, other than argghhh!
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>

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