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Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Mon Oct 22 23:37:07 2007

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/