Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

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

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:08:50 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination.html
>
> I cannot access relevant pages on www.comcast.com due to me not being
> in the US (or rather, they require an address first), could anyone
> please paste or other way supply the wording/text they use in their
> fineprint, to allow them contractually to disrupt customer TCP
> session in other way than delaying or dropping the packets (which I
> guess is accepted industry standard).
>
> Sending/spoofing RST on certain customer TCP sessions doesn't qualify
> as normal network behaviour in my mind, so would be interesting to
> hear how they word it legally.
See http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9800629-38.html for some relevant
excerpts.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb