Comments on: Comcast user sued his ISP over BitTorrent

By: Fazlul Rahuman Fazal

Fazlul Rahuman Fazal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:09:54 +0000

Its about time. My ISP is far more better. Costly but Satisfactory

By: tucker

tucker — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:32:05 +0000

“Download at Crazy Ass Speeds”

By: erok713

erok713 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:37:30 +0000

@9 Bob
It’s actually a monopoloy but rather an oglipoly. The difference being some companies, such as cable, electric, gas,
and formerly the telephone company would have the specific use of one area because they all run wires or pipes or some sort of framework for their business.

By: MuchoGrande

MuchoGrande — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:48:15 +0000

PIPEX in the UK do exactly the same thing (throttling). And as if that wasn’t bad enough, their customer service is diabolical as well.

$#@! PIPEX!.. $#@! them in the a$$!…

By: Mr. Know It All

Mr. Know It All — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:19:14 +0000

I have Comcast and despise it. I can’t wait until Verizon FiOS arrives in my area. Luckily they said it will be available in about six months.

By: Just a guy

Just a guy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:45:05 +0000

Just a reminder:
Torrents are being used for “legal” purposes too.
A good example is that “America’s Army”, being developed by the U.S. Army is distributed by torrents.
http://www.americasarmy.com/downloads/torrent.php

So if some ISP tries to claim that they block P2P because it is only used for “illegal” purposes… …there’s your response.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:33:36 +0000

@Rekrul

Please read the comments from a few days ago regarding the Man From Earth release. The community is now in agreement that we will compensate the people involved in producing various digital media whenever we download it.

Rlslog.net will soon include Paypal links for each release to make it easier to carry this out for everyone. You are correct, there is no free anymore, that concept does not work.

Please re-read the comments on that post so you can see how wrong you are about the people involved in producing all types of digital media.

They are not greedy profit capitalists as you call them.

By: whoami?

whoami? — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:21:31 +0000

@34 Alex

Nowhere is it stated that comcast throttles when their (comcasts) bandwidth capacity is near critical, only that they are throttling users who have high usage and targeting specific applications. That is throttling users based on an artificial cap, not the total bandwidth available.

By: MPAA Dictates Your Laws

MPAA Dictates Your Laws — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:59:42 +0000

Why are all the individual opinions and comment, reflecting “me” thinking when you all should be getting organized, to lobby your governments, which can make new laws for sharing to be made legal?

You P2P users are NOT willing to stand up? Not willing to help another do your bidding?

Talk about a worthless bunch of turtles, wanting but NOT willing to help even one of your own!

Does anyone think “FREE” cost nothing? Point being, if you want P2P and sharing your culture, stand up and be heard, care about what you think is important…

Comments are just single opinions, but get your government to pass new laws, and then you got the system working for you…

Who’s system do you want it to be anyhow? Yours, as in the people or some “fat cat” written above?

Here’s your chance, to unite… to take back your people’s rights!

Help spread the word to unite… to change the laws to support P2P, file sharing, and to NOT allow the corporations to stick it to you…

Why should MPAA be the only one’s to unite… to work against you folks? Who is bigger, MPAA, RIAA or the people?

I think you all need to wake up, your NOT sheep, and these are NOT lions… Their just greedy profit capitalists…

benefiting from others to redistribute their works… in the billions… be software, music, and innovations…

Is this their world or do we get organized, and make a difference for us “we” the people?

Help yourself, join and be heard as by us all…

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:33:07 +0000

A couple corrections;

Comcast isn’t interferring with Bittorrent downloads, they’re preventing Comcast users from seeding files. People can still download, they just can’t upload.

As for asking them ahead of time; Comcast support personel have been instructed to be evasive when answering calls from the public. They’re told to say that they don’t block the use of any particular application. This is true, they interfere with some of the functions of various applications.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:16:34 +0000

@whoami?

That IS why they are throttling, they are hitting their bandwidth ceiling. Pay attention, please.

By: whoami?

whoami? — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:11:06 +0000

traffic management has it’s purpose, but not to artificially choke bandwidth when more is available.

I can understand that if they are hitting a ceiling on bandwidth to choke the higher user to make room for the lower, but to choke it when there is no other demand for it is just wrong.

By: AhemAhem

AhemAhem — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:08:07 +0000

AOhelL do it to me in the UK. Evenings between 6 and 11 I’m lucky to get 60k dl. Outside of that I get 7-800k. But with RS and torrent, I still dl aprox 20-30gig p/week

AA.

By: sand mammoth

sand mammoth — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:05:00 +0000

msg to bigk & any other users in the uk, Virgin Media do a similsar thing, & its called traffic management, i’ve got 20megbbi, & if I exceed any number of kbs, while d/loading serv is restricted for 4hrs!!!!

By: AKUMA™

AKUMA™ — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:59:54 +0000

HA! I KNEEEEWW IT. Comcast has been doing this for almost 2 years now. I was constantly uploading Dreamcast games for EmuParadise and then one day all of a sudden it got difficult to get any connections, even downloaders complained. I finally gave up the whole thing. I still download but I don’t really bother seeding anymore (up speed sucks anyway compared to down speed). And already we got 2 emails from Comcast this year about using BT to download stuff, and since it’s been a long while since the 2nd email and no follow-up, I figure they just let it go. After seeing this I can see why they let it go. I think they know they’d be S.O.L. in a court battle. I hope this dude wins. Hopefully this will get national attention and people from other states will get involved too. All I see on TV is Comcast commercials all the time, it’s annoying. Earlier this morning I saw a new Comcast commercial with a sort-of well-known actor (I know his face but not the name) pretending to be a TV news anchor. Apparently work must be hard to come by in Hollywood. Wanda Sykes (however you spell it) is doing the voice of a talking apple in Applebee’s commercials now too. Saaaaaad.