[ NNSquad ] Re: Comcast Caves re: Sandvine

[Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>]

This is very clever - for $16 a head, Comcast gets a list of all the 
pirates among its customer base.

RB

On 12/23/2009 7:11 PM, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:54:35 -0500
> From: Dave Farber<dave@farber.net>
> Subject: [IP] Comcast Caves re: Sandvine
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> > From: Hasan Diwan<hasan.diwan@gmail.com>
> > Date: December 23, 2009 8:28:51 PM EST
> > To: dave@farber.net
> > Subject: Comcast Caves re: Sandvine
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> > For IP, if you wish...
> > Comcast To Compensate Throttled BitTorrent Users
> >
> > Written by Ben Jones on December 23, 2009
> > Comcast has decided to settle one of the lawsuits brought about over
> > their use of the Sandvine BitTorrent throttling hardware to ‘manage’
> > their network. For those who were affected, there is the possibility of
> > receiving a payment from a $16 million fund set up by the Internet
> > service provider.
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> > Full piece may be seen at http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-to-compensate-throttled-bittorrent-users-091222/
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> > Cheers! -- H
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> > Envoyait de mon telephone mobil
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Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC