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Are you seriously comparing packet shaping for the purposes of QoS assurance to aggressive filtering policies to directly limit freedom of speech? seriously?

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I agree with this to a degree.

There are a lot of new and upcoming technologies that rely on bittorrent technology to distribute legitimate material (vuze, blizzards client updater, etc...) but at the present bittorrent technology is primarily used for sharing other people's intellectual property. Anyone who disagrees with this is just being glib... http://isohunt.com, http://thepiratebay.org, http://torrentspy.com, http://torrentreactor.com, http://torrentfreak.com... I could go on but I'm going to get in trouble.

Yes, I will openly admit that bittorrent technology is also used for sharing legitimate material: linux distros, creative commons licensed art, etc... This is where I disagree with Comcast's old packet shaping practices because, as has already been mentioned, there is no way of differentiating between legal and illegal content given the protocol.

It's discouraging that this topic can't be discussed without it turning into a flame war...

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