Comcast blocks some Internet traffic (p2p e.g. BitTorrent)

d-tracks · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:14 pm

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Comcast is forging TCP RST packets which cause connections to drop (a technique also used by Internet censorship systems in China). These packets cause software at both ends to believe, mistakenly, that the software on the other side doesn't want to continue communicating.

October 19th, 2007
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/eff-tests-agree-ap-comcast-forging-packets-to-interfere
October 20th, 2007 Comcast is also Jamming Gnutella (and Lotus Notes?)
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/comcast-also-jamming-gnutella-and-lotus-notes

October 19th, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination
AP tests Comcast's file-sharing filter
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_tests_2

Iain · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:21 am

This is actually illegal in the states.

In the US it is illegal to look at the contents of packets transiting the net. Deep scanning of packets is simply not allowed. (Doesn't stop the government, but then they are our overlords and rightly above the law)
It is also illegal to send packets with forged 'from' addresses, and this is exactly what Comcast are doing. They are sending packets with the forged IP of the victims in them. Definitely illegal.

koke · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:58 pm

What Comcast is doing is one of the reasons why I wish where I am, that we had a choice of providers. I'm on Charter. Right across the state line is Comcast. Hmm, maybe I ought to rethink what I just said.

Yes fans, Big Brother is always watching here in the states. :twisted:

Regards, Jim

d-tracks · **Posted:** Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:00 pm

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A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/comcast-sued-ov.html

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