Is Comcast really blocking P2P? EFF + SF Weekly conclude: yeah. - Boing Boing

Eckersley's BitTorrent controller flickers for a second, showing that his computer is "seeding" our file to the Melbourne computer. Then everything stops. The transmission fails, and to an untrained eye, the problem appears to be with BitTorrent.

But Eckersley is running a Net monitor application called Wireshark, which works like an online customs officer checking the packets going out of the computer here and into the one in Melbourne. What Eckersley finds is damning. Someone or something has interceded in the transmission and told the computers to stop talking.

Is Comcast really blocking P2P? EFF + SF Weekly conclude: yeah. - Boing Boing