Comcast denies monkeying with BitTorrent traffic
Over the past few days, these claims have been widely circulated throughout the Web. But when I spoke to Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas earlier today, he flat-out denied that the company was filtering or “shaping” any traffic on its network. He said the company doesn’t actively look at the applications or content that its customers download over the network. But Comcast does reserve the right to cut off service to customers who abuse the network by using too much bandwidth.
I can verify that Comcast is actively blocking torrent seeds as of this morning. When Verizon FiOS is available in Ann Arbor, I’m switching both my Internet and TV over to them.
Published on August 22, 2007 10:34 AM PDT (1 year, 3 months ago).