Comcast Internet Shaping
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I don’t know how many of you know about Comcast decision to shape internet connections. What this means is that if you try to download anything from any bit torrent comcast will see you doing it and move your torrents to a different server and if you keep doing it your internet connection will be cut off.
If this even starts to happen to me I will literally go up to Comcast headquarters and pull the plug on comcast. If Comcast gets pissed off so be it, they can’t control the internet no on can and should. This is the problem with Net Netruality issue, is Comcast is doing what AOL wanted to do a long time ago and that is control every aspect of the internet.
Comcast can’t control what we blog about now can they, if they even think about shutting me down I will be on a plane to the comcast headquarters and break all there computers as well. I don’t believe that Comcast has the right to do this at all.
This breaks all te rules of the Bill of rights and the “Freedom of Speech” as well. Not only that but Freedom of press, If this blog gets taken down Comcast will no longer my isp, I will find a different way around the internet or a different ISP as well.
Comcast you do not control the internet nor should you and please stop trying to…Everyone hates you for it and I will not stand for it at all.
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barry
October 24th, 2007
at 8:11pm
You miss the point. Comcast does not control the Internet. It is impossible. However, Comcast (unfortunately IMHO) can control the network they provide to their customers as part of their service.
Supposedly, you have the choice to use Comcast or some other ISP to gain access to the Internet. In reality, Comcast has a monopoly on broadband service in many of the regions they server. For example I, (again unfortunately) have the “choice” to use Comcast or dial-up. Not much of a choice.
Now the one thing that really burns me about the Comcast traffic filter fiasco is the fact that Comcast is not open about the real type of service they are providing for the price you pay. (And I for one pay dearly for it, $60 per month, OUCH!).
If these secret Comcast bandwidth filtering and blocking were part of the service agreement, then the choices become clear: accept the terms as provided by Comcast or as a community of Internet users put the pressure on the governments to regulate this clearly unregulated monopoly and open up their abusive private/secret policies.
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