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 After running across an A.P. newswire story about Comcast's active blocking of P2P services last week, it seems the stakes are being raised against America's largest cable provider. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's investigations indicate that Comcast is indeed utilizing Sunvine hardware and technology to subvert Gnutella and Bittorrent traffic. Strangely Lotus Notes is also affected, which I'm sure makes Comcast's Business Service users extremely happy. As a result, it looks like this could open the door to some rather hefty class action lawsuits against Comcast, for deliberately crippling their own service to reduce costs. Cnet reports... "The blogosphere is abuzz over an Associated Press investigative article this past Friday on the subject of Comcast's BitTorrent filtering. Briefly, there were a number of articles in early September which alleged that Comcast was using some fairly sneaky techniques to throttle BitTorrent traffic on its network. Comcast, of course, denied any such behavior. It took a month and a half, but both a mainstream media news organization as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have tested and confirmed the previously reported claims. It turns out that Comcast is not only throttling BitTorrent, but Gnutella and, strangely, Lotus Notes are also suffering. Comcast's PR people gave me the following statement on Monday: "Comcast does not block access to any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent...We have a responsibility to provide all of our customers with a good Internet experience and we use the latest technologies to manage our network so that they can continue to enjoy these applications." Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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