Recently Comcast have been under fire for making a nusiance of themselves with P2P users, mainly focusing on the bit torrent protocol, it looks like the tables are about to turn
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-devs-introduce-comcast-busting-encryption-080215/Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs. This new form of encryption will be implemented in BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, so Comcast subscribers are free to share again.
BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, ISPs have been doing it for years. When the first ISPs started to throttle BitTorrent traffic most BitTorrent clients introduced a countermeasure, namely, protocol header encryption.
Unfortunately, protocol header encryption doesn’t help against more aggressive forms of BitTorrent interference, like the Sandvine application used by Comcast. A new extension to the BitTorrent protocol is needed to stay ahead of the ISPs, and that is exactly what is happening right now.
This battle rages on and on folks but as long as most of the details are open src for folks to understand its core technique, lets hope its a method that is portable to other systems.
