How do you expect Jesus to collect his royalties if we're to allow the Bible
to be freely distributed on BitTorrent?

Stealing is stealing!

"jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in message
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> (from http://www.11alive.com/tech/article_...storyid=105115)
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> AP Tests Comcast's File-Sharing Filter
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> NEW YORK (AP) -- To test claims by users that Comcast Corp. was blocking
> some forms of file-sharing traffic, The Associated Press went to the
> Bible.
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> An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program
> BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible from two computers in the
> Philadelphia and San Francisco areas, both of which were connected to the
> Internet through Comcast cable modems.
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> We picked the Bible for the test because it's not protected by copyright
> and the file is a convenient size.
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> In two out of three tries, the transfer was blocked. In the third, the
> transfer started only after a 10-minute delay. When we tried to upload
> files that were in demand by a wider number of BitTorrent users, those
> connections were also blocked.
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> Not all Comcast-connected computers appear to be affected, however. In a
> test with a third Comcast-connected computer in the Boston area, we were
> unable to test with the Bible, apparently due to an unrelated error. When
> we attempted to upload a more widely disseminated file, there was no
> evidence of blocking.
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> The Bible test was conducted with three other Internet connections. One
> was provided by Time Warner Inc.'s Time Warner Cable, and the other came
> from Cablevision Systems Corp. The third was the business-class connection
> to the AP's headquarters.
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> No signs of interference with file-sharing were detected in those tests.
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> Further analysis of the transfer attempt from the Comcast-connected
> computer in the San Francisco area revealed that the failure was due to
> "reset" packets that the two computers received, carrying the return
> address of the other computer.
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> Those packets tell the receiving computer to stop communicating with the
> sender. However, the traffic analyzer software running on each computer
> showed that neither computer actually sent the packets. That means they
> originated somewhere in between, with faked return addresses.
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> In tests analyzing the traffic received by a computer on Time Warner Cable
> that was trying to download a file from a large "swarm" of BitTorrent
> users, more than half of the reset packets received carried the return
> addresses of Comcast subscribers, even though Comcast's 12.4 million
> residential customers make up only about 20 percent of U.S. broadband
> subscribers. It was the only U.S. Internet service provider whose
> subscribers consistently appeared to send reset packets (which are
> occasionally generated legitimately).
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> Comcast subscriber Robb Topolski, who discovered the blocking earlier this
> year and traced it to reset packets, pointed out that a Canadian company
> called Sandvine Inc. sells equipment that promises to save bandwidth for
> Internet service providers by managing and redirecting file-sharing
> traffic.
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> BitTorrent Inc. President Ashwin Navin said that the interference method
> on Comcast's network is consistent with Sandvine's technology. Sandvine
> did not respond to a request for comment.
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> Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas would not confirm that the company uses
> Sandvine equipment.
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> "We rarely disclose our vendors or our processes for operating our network
> for competitive reasons and to protect against network abuse," he said.
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> (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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