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| said by newview:said by BosstonesOwn:Now they use the excuse that they are doing it to protect their network from abuse . . . All the while continuing to allow their spam zombies to rape the rest of the internet. Once again, by their action and inaction, they've chosen to cherry-pick the part of their TOS that benefits THEM and ignore those parts that cost them significant time and money. I'll usually refrain from wasting my breath (keystrokes) on these news threads these days but ... well said!!
Let's start suing Comcast for every infection that comes from "their" network. What, you can't throw darts (RST) at the passing zombie/ddos/etc traffic but you can BT? Yeah but no. I'm not really an IT-Sec geared person but if a few grand in hardware/software and some research can obliterate "average" bot-style traffic on a large enterprise-scale WAN situation I'd imagine Comcast could manage (even if they need to get a consultant in to do it ... HA!). But back to the lawsuits, I'm assuming p2p "warez" has generated enough legal heat to get them to start acting "pro-actively" against such traffic.
So the fact that 50-Cent's new single got leaked and passed around for free is much more troubling than Grandma NiceLady had her PC infected and had to take it in to have it repaired (which costs MUCH more than music/mp3s,etc for the average folk). Yes, that makes a whole lot of sense. But wait: Grandma NiceLady can't throw down gobs of money just to make their case like the production outfits and others with a stake have been doing re: pirated material.
Pirating data is a problem, I will be amongst the first to tell ya that. BUT ... Let's take care of the bigger problems first, such as aiding in child abuse cases, (real) terrorism issues, hacking/ddos/etc, and other illegal acts first that spew from these networks. Ya know, actual criminal offenses that are worth the paper the charges are written on.
/soapbox
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