eFluxMedia, October 20, 2007
By Alice Turner

A simple test by the AP has found that Comcast appears to interfere with the BitTorrent traffic in ways which pose ethics questions and also probably cost the company a lot of money. Specifically, instead of throttling BitTorrent traffic, the company appears to create spoof peers which interfere with the normal peer-to-peer transfers and significantly slow down or even kill some downloads.

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