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Comcast To Put An End To File-sharing Block
tomshardware.com — Telecommunications company Comcast announced today that it will no longer restrict Internet subscribers from accessing file-sharing programs and websites.
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- VikingoTJ, on 03/27/2008, -7/+3This is some great news!
- aliengoods, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Take this with a grain of salt. Those greedy assclowns at Comcast will most likely just find another way to ***** us.
- gmastr85, on 03/27/2008, -7/+1It is pretty sweet! Another victory for net neutrality!
- ToadLeg, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3It may be quite the opposite, if the lawsuits don't continue and congress doesn't do anything. They may try to argue again that they don't need net neutrality, or any other regulation, because "market forces" do the same thing, with this event as an example. It would simply delay the issue more, and everything would seem fine until Comcast or other providers decide to impede net traffic again, next time possibly in a more sophisticated way.
- Scheissen, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2Yes, another victory for the free-market.
- aliengoods, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I've heard just about enough of the free market. The free market got us into this housing problem we have now, and every time the free market ***** up it expects taxpayers to bail it out. Wait, is that really a free market?
- Scheissen, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Shutup you stupid left-winger. If the government doesn't bail everyone out every time they make a stupid decision then they'd actually have to learn to take on responsibility. Responsibility, I know it's a new concept to you.
- aliengoods, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I've heard just about enough of the free market. The free market got us into this housing problem we have now, and every time the free market ***** up it expects taxpayers to bail it out. Wait, is that really a free market?
- cam503, on 03/27/2008, -1/+16Oh, so you mean you're going to finally start letting us use our ENTIRE internet connection? Gee thanks... how considerate of you.
The fact that this issue was present to begin with is unacceptable. Screw you, Comcast. - solesoul, on 03/27/2008, -2/+7...***** Comcast?
- tokage, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Right. They still deserve a good kick in the nuts/ass/ovaries for everything else they ***** you over with.
- lucidguru, on 03/27/2008, -1/+16We still have to ask permission, which is total *****. They should have absolutely NO role in filtering anything going in or out. Their job is to provide the connection and not regulate which IP addresses I can and cannot contact... There is a reason I pay a monthly bill for internet service.
- aliengoods, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1"There is a reason I pay a monthly bill for internet service."
Because you're a porn addict and have no other options? (at least, that's why I pay for mine)
- aliengoods, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1"There is a reason I pay a monthly bill for internet service."
- NaziHatinChimp, on 03/28/2008, -3/+13Oh Thank You Comcast for deciding to start obeying the law. How privileged we are.
- arcooke, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1They aren't breaking the law.. they're just ***** off customers. It's their business, they can run it however they want. I hate Comcast just as much as the next guy.. but they ARE obeying the law.
- ViRaZ, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4Sixty dollars a month for cable internet better be pretty damn open.
- doshindude, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Why is this posted in gaming news?
- Wyrmfell, on 03/28/2008, -5/+1*cue choir*
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
*end choir* - Jorlwind, on 03/28/2008, -0/+10"Comcast said it will remove its current discriminatory protocols by the end of the year."
So I still have to wait the rest of the ***** year!?- Joshuarr, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3I'll stop discriminating too. By the end of the year.
- badassninja, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I know! How ***** hard is it? Just pull your software and walk away. Why in the hell would that take a year.
- trunkster, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2If they are blaming the public on making them have to remove their blocking software, expect a price hike later this year as well.
- frieddonuts, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2Yeah, now they won't block you, they'll just keep tabs on your usage and report you.
- getrealnow, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4***** THE RIAA
- PunkRampant, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2So what exactly were they blocking before? Websites? Files? Or just prohibiting P2P connections?
Asking because I have Comcast and I've been torrenting like normal but I don't know if they were limiting my speed or something. I haven't seemed to find anything blocked so maybe I wasn't affected.- badassninja, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1It depends on where you live. If you live in a spot with alot of people or their hardware for that block is outdated or what have you then they will roll this crap out. But if you are the only person downloading movies 24/7 then you are most likely safe.
- smacksaw, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Look. I think all anyone wanted was an honest admission of what our bandwidth is. If they give us 10mbit, but we can only use it at 0400a, then we don't really have a 10mbit connection, just a 10mbit potential connection.
I would rather have a 2mbit connection, be told that it's 2mbit and have it 24/7 and do what I want with it. They need to quit marketing it like they're competing with X2 modems in 1998. I understand where they are coming from, but their mistake was not capping our connection but interfering with what it does.
If they can give us a max 512k upstream or a 128k upstream, that's all we need to know. Let us decide how to use it. - davidlyness, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Yay! We get what we pay for!
- Ganja420, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I bet they just found a better way to get away with it
- dtzitz, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I may get buried for mentioning /. but they had some interesting information about a p2p protocol that defended itself. The protocol would reroute once it was blocked and it would also mark the device that blocked it for a (d)dos attack. It is in the best interest of all the major players (read:RIAA, MPAA, perhaps parts of DoD and FBI) that the current p2p protocols be allowed to function. Then there are the darknet protocols that could be used to build a p2p network... They do not want to escalate this.
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