XOHM: P2P May Be Throttled
After Comcast’s run-in with the FCC over their throttling of upstream P2P traffic, consumer advocates would have you believe a major battle was won and we’ve entered a new phase of ISPs being completely transparent about how and when they manage network traffic. The reality is that even ISPs that do exactly what Comcast got slammed for doing (TCP packet forgery, like Cox) can apparently get away with continuing the practice — as long as they include nebulous language in their acceptable use policies.