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Is Comcast's BitTorrent filtering violating the law?

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I'm a cybersecurity Ph.D. student and take classes in the Indiana University law school, but this in no way makes me a legal expert. CaveatlLector.

Within the last few weeks, there have been a number of reports by Comcast customers claiming that their BitTorrent downloads and uploads have been capped--or worse, blocked. TorrentFreak recently reported that Comcast, a major U.S. cable company, is using an application from Sandvine to throttle such connections.

Many ISPs routinely filter the traffic on their networks. Many forbid customers from running e-mail servers or Web servers, … Read more

Disclosure

Christopher Soghoian is student fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and is a PhD candidate at Indiana University's School of Informatics. He is also a visiting researcher at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

In the past, he has worked or interned for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, as well as Google, Apple, NTT DoCoMo and IBM Research.

He is currently the recipient of a 2008/2009 fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies, and in 2006 and 2007, he received a graduate scholarship funded … Read more