Comcast, in responding to last week’s AP investigation that found it blocks BitTorrent traffic, said today it only “delays” the traffic and doesn’t outright block it. You know, like picking up a phone and getting a busy signal. Right…
Ladies and germs, if you believe that line of rubbish you should be ashamed of yourself.
The Philly-based company said it has a “responsibility to provide all of our customers with a good Internet experience and we use the latest technologies to manage our network so that they can continue to enjoy these applications.” And what, exactly, constitutes “good”? Wouldn’t, I don’t know, being able to use the Blizzard updater effectively be “good”?
I really, really hope the more mainstream (i.e. not tech-specific) press picks up on this nonsense and someone holds Comcast accountable.
Comcast: We’re Delaying, Not Blocking, BitTorrent Traffic [NY Times Bits Blog]
I’d rather they outright block than this ‘delay’ crap.
I can understand blocking traffic. I can understand the desire for a company to block traffic. I might not agree with it, I might not get behind it, but I can, at least, *understand* it.
But to *delay* it? That’s just… well, it seems completely against the whole basis of network protocols. A packet is a packet is a packet. If you’re going to let it through, you let it through. You don’t put it in a friggin’ holding pattern. Packets don’t get the opportunity to fire up a set of red lights and a siren to make all the other traffic pull over.