Torrent community gives one finger salute to ISP's

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Torrent community gives one finger salute to ISP's

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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-devs ... on-080215/
Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs. This new form of encryption will be implemented in BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, so Comcast subscribers are free to share again.

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I'm not on Comcast, but that's good news for sure. Comcast seems to be the most anal of ISPs. They really try to police everything that their customers do.
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great idea..but as with anything comcast and the others will figure out another way to screw legit customers.
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i don't see how they get away with crap like this, i mean there are plenty of legit uses for torrents, if i were a customer, i would try sueing them for shiet like this.
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Mark wrote:i don't see how they get away with crap like this, i mean there are plenty of legit uses for torrents, if i were a customer, i would try sueing them for shiet like this.
i use them and yea, it's lame. i really need to switch
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Mark wrote:i don't see how they get away with crap like this, i mean there are plenty of legit uses for torrents, if i were a customer, i would try sueing them for shiet like this.
there's a class action in california or somewhere out west iirc
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There's money to be made....
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There's hampsters to be born...

(If you don't quite know what I mean, I'm referencing to the hampster powered servers that people rely on. Power to the hampsters!)
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penguincomrade wrote:There's hampsters to be born...

(If you don't quite know what I mean, I'm referencing to the hampster powered servers that people rely on. Power to the hampsters!)
Hamster.

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