--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Scott Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Next, the conversation took a turn > I was told that having *any* ports "open facing the > Internet" was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use > Policy (AUP) for residential accounts.
Seems like another good argument in favor of implementing a mechanism for relays to work behind firewalls, you would not need to have any open ports. This might be another way that they attack bittorent users since to get better bandwidth, they need to open ports. While it does suck, ultimately you can't blame them for this policy (the other BS notwithstanding) since it is in their AUP. There's a reason I don't use such an account despite having to regularly justify the extra monthly expense to my wife when she asks: "why can't we use one of those cheap DSL/cable internet services I see advertised everywhere?" If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they would charge more money for everyone and you would suffer more. Cheap internet access and "serving" is not some inherent human right, so let's not complain about the price of gas here. ;) (unless it is to propose ways to make tor use less gas...) -Martin
