Comcast's filtering/throttling of torrent traffic involves forging TCP reset packets, pretending to be from one end of the torrent session. This is the same technique used by the Great Firewall of China, and a pretty clear violation of various states'... ...full story at digg
from digg on Wed, Sep 05 2007
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| 05 Sep 07 |
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Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that Comcast, like the Great Firewall of China uses forged TCP Reset (RST) packets to do the job. While the... |
| 06 Nov 07 |
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Comcast's Bittorrent Filtering: Phase Two Unveiled » digg A serious look at the future of Comcast's Bittorrent filtering policy... Be afraid, be very afraid. |
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FCC formally rules Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent was illegal (Declan McCullagh/The Iconoclast) » techmeme Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast: FCC formally rules Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent was illegal — Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, marking the... |
| 22 Oct 07 |
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How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling (Ernesto/TorrentFreak) » techmeme How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling — Comcast is using an application from the broadband management company Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. It breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if... |
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Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking » slashdot clang_jangle writes with this excerpt from The Inquirer outlining Comcast's new traffic-throttling scheme, based on information from Comcast's latest FCC filing. "Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven... |
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