Comcast blocking p2p uploads

Sat Oct 20 11:57:11 UTC 2007

On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data- 
>> Discrimination.html
>
> I cannot access relevant pages on www.comcast.com due to me not  
> being in the US (or rather, they require an address first), could  
> anyone please paste or other way supply the wording/text they use  
> in their fineprint, to allow them contractually to disrupt customer  
> TCP session in other way than delaying or dropping the packets  
> (which I guess is accepted industry standard).
>
> Sending/spoofing RST on certain customer TCP sessions doesn't  
> qualify as normal network behaviour in my mind, so would be  
> interesting to hear how they word it legally.

It is interesting that this has come up before in a somewhat related  
context

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/ignoring_the_gr.html

Regards
Marshall

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