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Another thing that Comcast has started suggesting to reporters — without giving any details — is that for obscure technical reasons, they can't always prevent network congestion by reducing the amount of bandwidth available to P2P protocols, so when the network is busy, they start jamming them instead. This is an interesting argument, but it's very hard to evaluate or refute it without any details! (A nice rhetorical trick, that.)For now, let's be very generous to Comcast and assume what we think is false: let's assume that some P2P network or other actually triggers a flaw in the way cable modem networks are designed, so that it's hard for Comcast to keep plenty of the channel free for web surfers when there are enough P2P nodes around. In that case, rather than just spoofing packets and offering incredibly disingenuous denials after they've been caught red-handed, Comcast should come clean. They should explain what they're doing, and explain in precise and detailed terms why they're doing it. If they do that, the technical community will be able to evaluate their arguments properly, decide whether they've got any basis at all, and (we're just guessing here) explain to them how to solve their problem correctly and without arbitrarily jamming things.
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