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Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

  • From: John C. A. Bambenek
  • Date: Fri Oct 19 15:14:04 2007
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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 <[email protected]> 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
>