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Comment Hasn't Stopped Comcast (Score 4, Informative) 176

by bilturner (#30534818) Attached to: Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit
I'm a Comcast user, and as soon as I fire up bit-torrent my cable-modem starts resetting every 2 minutes or so. That has to be Comcast. Takes my cable-modem a minute to cycle through the reset sequence, during which time I'm offline. This tactic seems more egregious, though. Before, they were just interfering with packets. Now they're interrupting my service. Turn off bit-torrent, cable modem and service runs like a charm. Mysterious, isn't it....
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MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids 502

Posted by kdawson from the don't-need-no-more-reasons dept.
Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton summarizes his essay this way: "Debate over the Lori Drew verdict has focused overwhelmingly on whether the ruling was technically correct, but there is another serious issue: the perverse incentives that this ruling creates for victims of online harassment." Read on for his essay.

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