who is Comcast?
a) 2nd largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States.
b) largest cable TV and cable Internet network provider in the United States,
c) duopoly or monopoly provider of residential broadband Internet access.
what is Comcast doing? – Comcast is forging traffic
packet forgery – stopping BitTorrent by injecting reset data packets into information streaming between two computers on the Comcast network. Then Comcast makes the reset packets appear to be from one of the computers using BitTorrent — not Comcast.
Accordingly, even if customers know to look for these reset packets, they will most likely believe the problem comes from the computer they are trying to share files with.
what does it mean?
Comcast is demonstrating quite plainly that it will not hesitate to deny basic Internet services to its customers:
- without warning, and
- without even acknowledging that it’s doing it.
Today those services are for file sharing. But what will we do when it prevents a service for sending e-mail that does not use Comcast’s Web mail from being executed properly?
This is a very slippery road that starts with violating users’ rights and ends with an duopoly provider setting or changing the rules with neither asking customers nor showing much care about what they prefer.
Get more about this case of infringing upon customer’s rights if not violating the contract with its customers here:
has it any legal implications?
Yes it seems to have as is explained in detail here:
Comcast packet forgery and the US Criminal Code Section 1030
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