Da-Chief
12-22-2009, 07:21
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As our users were the first to discover back in 2007 (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/87077), Comcast had been forging user packets to throttle upstream P2P traffic for all users 24/7, despite spending a lot of time claiming otherwise. The news resulted in an FCC investigation and a meaningless FCC sanction (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/FCC-Crackdown-on-Comcast-Doesnt-Even-Include-Fine-96046), though Comcast ultimately wound up shifting to a throttling solution that only targets high consumption users on heavily congested nodes (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/97908). Comcast also faced a class action lawsuit, which they've now settled for $16 million (http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/g69607/comcast-corporation-settles-class-action-consumer-lawsuit-over-peer-to-peer-fil) according to a statement by the class action's law firm. According to the firm, users may be able to get a refund (http://www.p2pcongestionsettlement.com/) from Comcast if you tried (and failed) to use a major P2P program or Lotus Notes (which you'll recall was also impacted by the packet forgery practice) anytime between April 1 2006 to December 31 2008.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Settles-Throttling-Class-Action-106097)
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As our users were the first to discover back in 2007 (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/87077), Comcast had been forging user packets to throttle upstream P2P traffic for all users 24/7, despite spending a lot of time claiming otherwise. The news resulted in an FCC investigation and a meaningless FCC sanction (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/FCC-Crackdown-on-Comcast-Doesnt-Even-Include-Fine-96046), though Comcast ultimately wound up shifting to a throttling solution that only targets high consumption users on heavily congested nodes (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/97908). Comcast also faced a class action lawsuit, which they've now settled for $16 million (http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/g69607/comcast-corporation-settles-class-action-consumer-lawsuit-over-peer-to-peer-fil) according to a statement by the class action's law firm. According to the firm, users may be able to get a refund (http://www.p2pcongestionsettlement.com/) from Comcast if you tried (and failed) to use a major P2P program or Lotus Notes (which you'll recall was also impacted by the packet forgery practice) anytime between April 1 2006 to December 31 2008.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Settles-Throttling-Class-Action-106097)
More... (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Settles-Throttling-Class-Action-106097)