Stephanie (AKA Script) is also having issues with Comcast:

In reference to your Ustream video about Comcast. I too am an unfortunate Comcast subscriber. I was wondering are you using Comcast home or business service? The reason I am asking is that I have a feeling that those of us who use home service are going to be pretty much forced to buy the business service in order to maintain the downloading speeds that we are used to. It’s just a hunch but I have noticed an increasingly high number of Comcast business TV ads lately with the promise of 12Mbps download speed. I am curious about your take on this. Because I think the motivation behind flagging certain users is driven by some monetary gain not because they want to necessarily care about the spread of torrents.

Well, I certainly wouldn’t recommend running a business on any kind of connection that Comcast provides! No way. I recently “upgraded” my residential plan to business merely because I could attain a marginally better upload rate. Comcast didn’t force me to make that decision.

However, it’s still mistreating many of its customers.

I download Torrents from legitimate sites, especially a lot of FLACs, and I also distribute FLACs from myself and other indie artists who allow their music to be shared. This indiscriminate profiling of users based on a filetype or protocol they use is tantamount to racial profiling (something I know a bit about) and it really angers me. Anyway I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the possibility that Comcast might be doing this for monetary gain.

Oh, but… Comcast hasn’t admitted to any wrongdoing on its part. This is its service, and it can do with it what it wishes – but when it doesn’t tell customers what’s going on, we get a little pissy.

Because of politics and payoffs, you’re stuck with what you’ve got. This is not a system ruled by free enterprise. It’s all about control — and Comcast is pushing a drug that you simply cannot shake. It’s getting to be the only dealer in town. Qwest is just as bad around here; I’d move to FIOS in a heartbeat, but because of the same anti-competitive, anti-consumer regulations… I can’t get Verizon’s service in my area.

[tags]bittorrent, comcast[/tags]