Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 05/15/2008 - 23:39

New data on Comcast’s interference with BitTorrent traffic shows that the company misinformed the FCC this February.

Comcast has always argued that BitTorrent upstream traffic was only blocked during periods of heavy network traffic, this turns out to be a lie.



 

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