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4 edits | reply to russotto
Re: EFF, Start Your Own Broadband ISP said by russotto:Well, except the bit about the user paying for a service, and Comcast only pretending to deliver it. And BitTorrent isn't ftp, telnet, rlogin, email hosting, web hosting, or a similar application. It's a different class of application. BitTorrent (other than the tracker) is peer to peer, not the server of a server-client application.
According to the terms of service you agreed to all the capabilities you desire are not included in the class of service you are paying for. If this is a problem for you then you should purchase the a class of service that provides the capabilities you desire to make use of.
Read the residential terms of service, all of it. »www.comcast.net/terms/index.jsp
Interesting how you conveniently avoided addressing the following portion.
PROHIBITED USES AND ACTIVITIES
Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using the Service, Customer Equipment, or the Comcast Equipment to:
xiv. run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;
Oh and by the way. Very interesting that even though so many people believe they are paying for a service that permits BitTorrents and being denied its use, yet so far as I know no one has filed suite against any ISP. I wonder why that is. Could it be they know they are in breach of terms of service and would not be able prevail.
Everybody wants to cry foul and how they are being ripped off by their ISP blocking, traffic shaping etc. but yet no one is filing suite to hold their ISP to the terms of service to which both parties have agreed.
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