Comcast, after being outed for blocking downloads by the Associated Press, say that they’re not blocking downloads but merely "Bandwidth shaping". OK, whatever you say.
Essentially they’re not technically blocking the peer-to-peer applications from working, that’s true, but they’re preventing it from being useable. It would be like taking the wheels off someone’s car and […]

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Comcast has been using sophisticated blocking technology to stop its customers from using BitTorrent or other such technologies. The Associated Press decided to run some tests to see what’s happening, here’s the article about the results:
AP tests Comcast’s file-sharing filter
According to the article, only certain cities Comcast systems had this blocking in place since in […]

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