Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

According to
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
Comcast's blocking affects connections to non-Comcast users.  This
means that they're trying to manage their upstream connections, not the
local loop.

For Comcast's own position, see
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/comcast-were-delaying-not-blocking-bittorrent-traffic/