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A municipal broadband infrastructure could never be used to sell porn as that type of content takes a large amount of bandwidth. Most of that stuff is hosted on dedicated servers with giant T3 connections. If you tried to sell movies using a single 7 mbit cable connection, noone would buy from you because speeds would be ridiculously slow once more than 1 person started downloading.

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Anyone savvy enough to download large files through Bittorrent is savvy enough to encrypt their packets and utilize other methods to trick comcasts bandwidth throttling efforts.

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