[Infowarrior] - Cox blocking BitTorrent traffic, too

[Richard Forno]

> From: lyger <lyger at attrition.org>
> Date: May 15, 2008 7:40:29 PM EDT
>
> (as a Cox customer, not too surprising.  of course, I usually stick  
> to those SSH and HTTP thingys...)
>
> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9945542-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
>
> Cox is the latest Internet service provider to have been found  
> blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network.
>
> The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a survey  
> Thursday showing that 54 percent of Cox subscribers reported having  
> their connections blocked when they tried to share files over the  
> Internet. Comcast has been castigated for a similar practice, but  
> apparently it wasn't the only company engaging in such action,  
> according to the Associated Press.
>
> The blocked connections occurred when Cox subscribers used  
> BitTorrent to download or upload files, according to the results of  
> the survey. Cox has acknowledged a practice called "protocol  
> filtering," but says that's not the equivalent of creating different  
> standards for handling content traveling across its networks.
>
> The survey results will provide another log for the fire started by  
> Net neutrality activists pushing for rules that would prohibit ISPs  
> from enacting different standards for different types of content.  
> The AP said the Federal Communications Commission would look into  
> the matter "expeditiously."