said by Omega :

I play World of Warcraft. Created by a legitimate company (Blizzard), bought and paid for legally. The folks over at Blizzard have determined that the best way to distribute updates for the game is via a client that uses the same protocol as bittorrent.

So, if I was to have comcast, you are pretty much saying they have every right to block the needed data in order for me to play the game.

Just because it CAN be used for something illegal doesn't give them the right to block the protocol entirely. If that was the case then we wouldn't have Xerox machines, CD/DVD burners, VCR's, the list can go on and on.

Plus allowing companies to block stuff like this could set a dangerous precedent. What if Comcast suddenly decides that DSLR should be blocked because they have negative articles about the company?

said by Cheese :

They aren't "blocking" you from getting the file from what I am reading, once it's done and you start sending is when this is happening.

said by Cheese :

They aren't "blocking" you from getting the file from what I am reading, once it's done and you start sending is when this is happening.

said by Done_Posting :

The Sandvine product is meant to block seeding (uploading after finishing a downloaded torrent), but in reality they also are rate limiting the download side of things too. They may be using a bucket method of rate limiting, or they may simply limit the number of possible connections to something relatively low, like 50 or 100 concurrent connections per modem.

said by b10010011 :

Now here is the problem, if you watch the download will get to 99% and stay there a while. This is because you are required to SHARE a certain amount of the update (That means sending data) before you are allowed to get to 100% complete and continue..

said by dvd536 :

Simple then. cap your download until you've seeded how much you want.