If you end up getting charged for anything Comcast will have just admitted that they have the ability to not only log illegal downloads on their network but identify each and every one of them. This would be a retarded move to make, though they are pretty dumb. I would personally counter sue on ignorance because they did not let me know it was illegal. The **AA’s of the world would sue in a second to have every illegal download blocked. And finally this would be the largest “facilitation” to commit a crime ever recorded as they would admit it happened and they allowed it without even a warning.

A lot of people can’t switch because Comcast is the only ISP in the area.

There’s 2 others in my area and I’m going to be switching soon.

This is clearly a two finger salute to any who use bt.

No but you don’get it. TBP does not make anything available. The user does. Kind off.

What’s the difference between P2P protocols and HTTP, FTP etc., which all of them are agnostic of the copyright status of the bits being transported (there’s no “copyrighted-do-not-transfer-bit” designed in them)?

Why does Comcast discriminate against P2P protocols, while you could just as well download and upload gazillions of bytes with the other protocols?

IMHO, all this is merely a matter of bandwidth provisioning, and has nothing to do with copyright. Comcast knows that P2P users consume more bandwidth than other users — not because P2P is inherently more inefficient, but because P2P users tend to be power users in a more general sense –, bandwidth that they have to buy from their upstream Tier-1 network providers at a high cost.

Actually, it’s not P2P users who Comcat hates, it’s power users in general: they more people use their bandwidth, the less attractive they are as customers. So if Comcast tries to piss off P2P users with such legal rubbish non-sense, that’s not really because of copyright infrigement (they couldn’t care less), but because of them being power users (resource hogs, in their view).

Um, because it isn’t. As usual, TF, we’ve got some epic fail in the details. If downloading a tv show that would have been free (network, obviously) were illegal, then I couldn’t watch it streaming on ABC, NBC, Hulu, etc. What IS illegal is if I either A. upload it to someone else or B. make available for upload to someone else when, you are not the rights holder. This is why BitTorrent falls into legality problems, due to the uploading that occurs – not the downloading.

Downloading on its own is still a mostly legal (though in some cases a grey one) area, at least in the USA.

” I certify that my use or attempted use of the “Peer-to-Peer” protocol(s) specified above to share computer files and/or Lotus Notes to send
emails was for a lawful purpose consistent with applicable copyright and other laws. ”

I read this not as “100% of your torrent downloads must not have infringed copyright”, but as “if you downloaded an (even 1) uncopyrighted work (within the time frame) and believe your download was hindered”

What do you think?

So, Comcast have managed to work out a way to not pay anybody and just sit on that money.

PeoplePC DSL and Earthlink Cable/DSL is in my area and I am thinking about switching to one of those two.

Should I tell you where to put your nonsense?

Piracy is one thing, asking someone to pay you for it is plain stupid.

losers ftw

What if someone denies making such a statement, and sues Comcast because they didn’t want to pay?

Before anyone takes neostyles seriously, remember that this is the same guy who attacked the public domain:

What you call public domain is OTHER PEOPLES WORK. You are NOT entitled to it by default. We don’t live in a communist society where everyone get’s paid the same.

Sorry, neo, but by posting that you threw away any shred of credibility you might have ever had.

Buy yourself a SB5101 and a jtag cable . Flash the modem with haxorware.
Enjoy your free 30+Mb internet.
I have had free comcast i-net coming up on 3 years.
BTW
d11_m_na_c05.cm <- this config was never throttled. As its considered a "business" config.

“Affected users can now claim their part of the $16 million fund that was setup, but only if they state under penalty of perjury that BitTorrent was never used to download copyrighted content.”

So which is it? Are they only excluding pirates, or everybody who downloaded copyrighted content?

They should now be known as “Con-cast”

The internet is like music. The ISPs are like record companies and the common user of the internet is like the musicians. We use ISPs for a while to get our internet but once technology advances (just like in the music industry) we’ll either be producing our own abilities to connect or it’ll end up being a government run/world run internet which will cut out ISPs for good.

I know some would say thats impossible or highly unlikely but I say this, think outside the box. Its very possible but not currently with the still infant internet. Every year the internet improves, its just a matter of time.

You say they (comcast) throttle the bandwidth they provide to you.

So how you know that others don’t provide you more bandwidth, because if they don’t throttle it then they might actually be faster by providing less (unthrottled) Mbps than comcast many (throttled) Mbps.

What i mean is let’s say i buy from provider A a 50Mbps connection that is throttled and pay 40euro per month. A neigbor buy from provider B a 40euro connection but it’s not throttled and it’s only 30Mbps.
After a month of downloads my download managers say that my real average bandwidth was 28Mbps (because ok i pay for 50Mbps but provider throtted it). So, lets say, i ask my neigbor to tell me his monthly stats and in my surprise his average bandwidth was 27.5Mbps and he didn’t have slowdowns on various sites or downloads because his provider don’t throttle the bandwidth they offer.

So my conclusion is if your provider gives more bandwidth than other providers BUT throttles. in reallity he might actually be slower that other providers that offer unthrottled speeds.

Considering the near monopolies the giant ISPs have on Internet access, I don’t think they should be free to do whatever they want because there’s so little competition.

Stop trolling.

First I wish I could.. give me a the name of a provider in my area that even comes close to bandwidth they provide … oh wait there isn’t one riiight.

Secondly, I know they are already doing the same with video streaming from Hulu/Youtube/Netflix etc … Somedays its pretty decent but it’s definitely gotten slower over the course of the past couple of months. I run speed and download tests and they come through decent enough but streaming content from all those providers above within the same window have noticible bandwidth issues. I hope others more inclined and move skilled are watching for this too and making note.

yeah! this story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

Not to mention they would be pirating themselves if they did keep storage like that around, whether or not it was used for ‘evidence’ or otherwise.