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Prrkitty
10-31-2007, 08:43 PM
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071028-comcast-to-employees-talking-about-blocking-p2p-can-get-you-fired.html

Quote: In the wake of the discovery that Comcast is blocking some peer-to-peer traffic (and even blocking some Lotus Notes e-mails), the company is attempting to keep the PR machine well-oiled by giving customer tech support reps some talking points. And if they deviate from the script and admit that Comcast has been using Sandvine to send forged TCP reset packets, they're likely to lose their jobs.

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Paul sent this article to me from work. He got this from Chaos Manor (www.chaosmanorreview.com). Oct 30th article.

Is Comcast as stupid as this article is honestly trying to make them seem? AND... does Comcast think their subscribers are stupid?

Alex... pardon me if I seem to have not a lot of words to add with this article. I am honestly not sure what all else to say.

Other then - thankfully Paul and I have our internet thru Verizon FIOS.

phattonez
10-31-2007, 09:52 PM
Whatever UCLA is using works fine for me, but wow, Comcast is giving cable a REALLY bad name.

MasterSwordUltima
11-01-2007, 02:52 PM
Meh, I don't use Comcast, and wouldn't anyway. My Torrents are safe anyway.

AlexMax
11-04-2007, 09:18 PM
Who cares? If they try and wipe one form of file downloading out, another will come and take its place. Pirates Bay is already working on a new BitTorrent replacement now that updates to the official protocol are being kept closed source. Human ingenuity will always stay one step ahead of ISP's and the content providers.

That said, for those of you unfortunate souls who are still stuck with Comcast and have trouble downloading your totally legal Linux ISO's now that torrents don't work, take a gander at this handy guide to liberating data from USENET (http://shsc.info/NewsGroups), the original, celebrated, file distributor. Unlike torrents, you don't even need upstream bandwidth, and you will very likely max out your connection. The bad news is that if your ISP doesn't offer a news server, you need to pay for one (and even if it does, it's probably got terrible retention), and unless you like using binsearch, newzbin costs a small amount of money to use as well.

But once you have it set up, your totally legal ISO of Ubuntu 7.10 (http://www.binsearch.info/?b=ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386&g=alt.binaries.ftd&p=Poster%40abmm.com+%28Poster%29&max=250) will download so fast it will make your head spin.