[100398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Oct 22 23:29:33 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:13:42 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: <frnkblk@iname.com>
Cc: "'Leo Bicknell'" <bicknell@ufp.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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According to
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
Comcast's blocking affects connections to non-Comcast users. This
means that they're trying to manage their upstream connections, not the
local loop.
For Comcast's own position, see
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/comcast-were-delaying-not-blocking-bittorrent-traffic/
