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- Comcast has begun the practice of cutting off users who try to download files from P2P file sharing site BitTorrent, reports the blog TorrentFreak. Cable MSO and other ISPs have long limited bandwidth for heavy P2P users, but this new practice is preventing BitTorrent users from completing downloads by severing the connection between the BitTorrent client software and other peers contributing content. Comcast is utilizing an application provided by Sandvine to choke BitTorrent traffic, according to the blog.

- HBO renewed the musical-comedy series Flight of the Conchords for a second season. The number of new episodes for the half-hour series has not been determined. Additionally, HBO ordered the fifth season renewal of the comedy series Entourage, the pay network's second longest-running show.

Comments

[jaina.livejournal.com]

BitTorrent is a site now?

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Well, this newsletter isn't really up to speed on "technology" and the "internets", so I wouldn't be surprised if they meant to say something else, and instead came out with "you just go to this internet site and it has everything! What's p2p mean?"

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

Torrentfreak can talk about it in general because Comcast can restrict it in general. By refusing access to ports alone they can cut our speeds. There's not a lot of good countermeasures these days too. With PeerGuardian2 going I've been getting top speeds of only 150kbs lately >_< At least sucka's can't find me now ^^.

[online-stalker.livejournal.com]

oh man i LOVE flight of the conchords! i'm so glad they renewed it. when i saw last night that there were only two episodes left i was worried that meant the last two episodes ever.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I've started enjoying it more and more as I watch. I just caught the Bowie episode last night on On Demand and it ROCKED.

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Got a link to that first one?

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I got it from this morning's Cynopsis Digital edition, but they don't have an outside link to another source. TorrentFreak talks about it here.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I am suddenly delighted I don't have Comcast.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

As someone who DOES have Comcast, let me tell you that this is just one of the MANY reasons to be delighted not to have Comcast. There should be a song and dance number to the many reasons one shouldn't have Comcast.