Who's to Say Comcast Won't Meddle with Net Again?
San Jose Mercury News, March 31, 2008
By Larry Magid
Comcast and BitTorrent last week announced an agreement to collaborate on technologies to make it more efficient to conduct peer-to-peer file sharing over Comcast's cable modem network. This announcement came in the wake of intense criticism of the giant cable company and Internet service provider for controlling its customers' use of BitTorent to exchange files.
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