Comcast: Our BitTorrent busting is 'best in class'

[Steve]

Just weeks after the US Federal Communications Commission said it would investigate claims that Comcast was surreptitiously throttling P2P file-sharing traffic, the mega American ISP has issued new terms of service, telling customers it likes to practice "reasonable network management". These terms of service seem to mirror a footnote to the FCC's 2005 Internet Policy Statement - a bit of government wisdom Comcast has used time and again to justify its BitTorrent busting. Way back in May last year, an independent network researcher named Robb Topolski revealed that Comcast was preventing users from "seeding" BitTorrents and other P2P files. When one machine attempted to trade a file with another, Topolski's tests showed, the ISP would send a duped "reset flag" to break the peer-to-peer connection.

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