Man sues Comcast over traffic shaping, seeks class action status
- November 15th, 2007
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Yes! Take that, Comcast! A San Francisco man has filed sued against Comcast because of the alleged bandwidth shaping implemented by the company. If you recall, the AP carried out a whole investigation and discovered that Comcast indeed blocks certain traffic (mainly of the BitTorrent variety), upsetting end users left and right. Not only does they guy, one Jon Hart, want Comcast to stop slowing down his Internet connection, but he also wants it fined. Big Time. He’s demanding that the big C be fined $195,000 per subscriber affected by its traffic shaping. With 12.9 million subscribers, that could well balloon into a nice chunk of change should the lawsuit succeed.
If the suit gets class action status, I highly recommend getting in on the action. I want to see Comcast pay for preventing my friends from using BitTorrent.
Comcast Sued Over Web Interference [AP/Breitbart]
Matt (Who am I?)
7 months ago
Surely switching ISPs in the US doesn’t cost more than a lawsuit?
Gabe (Who am I?)
4 months ago
In most places (that I know of), Comcast is the only ISP in its category that is available to the public. Where I live, I have the option of Comcast cable internet at an alleged 3 Mbps, or DSL from BellSouth at 1.5 Mbps (at roughly the same price considering I would have to get a landline as well). Or dial-up at 56 Kbps. Just as an added note, my Netflix “watch instantly” service was ridiculously slowed down once they lifted the monthly limit for members to stream videos. I can watch it perfectly at work (via TimeWarner T1 connections), and I used to watch it perfectly at home.
Jamespn1333 (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Comcast and other cable companies really suck. It’s not as if P2P is anything new or wasn’t around when they started providing Internet service to the public. This simple fact is that they are CHEAP BASTARDS and only want to stall the cost of expanding it’s network to handle the traffic it is seeking to make more money at the expense of people who are already customers of theirs.
I suggest that Comcast and other ISP providers get out of the business if they can’t spend 50% of the income they receive for Internet service so that existing customers can get what they’ve already paid for and come to expect.
If you work for Comcast or any of the other cable companies and my post bothers or upsets you, then I suggest you BYTE ME !!!