I’ve never been more thrilled to not be a Comcast internet customer than right now. For all that money that their customers pay for their broadband, you would hope they were at least getting that broadband without Comcast sneakily filtering any of it. Well, put that pipe dream out of your mind, because the Associated Press did some testing and found that Comcast has been screwing around with peer-to-peer downloads on their network (also here, with more technical depth).
The tests involved transferring a copy of the King James Bible through the BitTorrent network on Time Warner Cable, Cablevison, AT&T and two Comcast connections (in Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco). Only the Comcast-connected computers were affected.
This is significant. The Gutenberg version of the King James Bible is only 4.24MB, which is relatively tiny and indicates that Comcast was singling out even small files.
This is yet another battle in the fight over network neutrality.
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