Has anyone made sense of the ruling in Comcast's favor?
As I understand, they cut down bit-torrent due to bandwidth usage.
But that makes no sense, it is not a real-time protocol. If they
wanted to manage bandwidth, they would presumably go after Hulu,
Amazon, Netflix etc.
I'm not even sure how successful a bit-torrent block would be -- each
person chooses their own port address. There is a default port but
all are warned to change it for security reasons. And there are no
bit-torrent servers, but lots of peers sharing. Any file you download
are fragments from several peers.
-- Owen
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