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:
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber<[email protected]> -----
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:54:35 -0500
From: Dave Farber<[email protected]>
Subject: [IP] Comcast Caves re: Sandvine
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: ip<[email protected]>
Begin forwarded message:
From: Hasan Diwan<[email protected]>
Date: December 23, 2009 8:28:51 PM EST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Comcast Caves re: Sandvine
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.
Full piece may be seen at
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-to-compensate-throttled-bittorrent-users-091222/
Cheers! -- H
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