The ranks of ripped off customers are swelling it seems.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/comcast-sued-ov.htmlA California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.
Plaintiff Jon Hart, represented by the Lexington Law Group, argues that Comcast's promises of providing internet connections that let users "Download at Crazy Fast Speeds" are false and misleading since Comcast limits downloads by transmitting "unauthorized hidden messages to the computers of customers" who use peer-to-peer file sharing software. Hart wants the court to force Comcast to stop interfering with the traffic.
It seems Comcast thinks it can steal from its customers by fruadulantly offering a service it has no intention of providing, its nice to see this self serving logic put to the test in legal terms.
