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Aug 24th, 2007 - Subscribe
Keywords: save, internet, comcast, att, speak, voice, limit, torrent, traffic, seeding, your, story

Comcast recently made a news release that it will be pulling the plug on Bit torrent seeding ports. What this means is that the Linux community is going to take a huge hit from not having their distributions seeded, plus many other free based companies that do not receive any profits from their products.

As such I took action by visiting
and told My Story on why Comcast should not do this.

So go ahead and tell your story. Help us save the internet from being crippled by ISP companies such as Comcast and AT&T! Speak up!

Here is my story from the above link:

Bit Torrent traffic is not all illegal. A lot of us help out the Linux community and other Open source free software communities by seeding legal software distributions which in return saves them bandwidth. Having this stupid logic in place prevents great feats like that from happening and will basically shut down the Linux community as no one can afford to buy hosting for as much traffic as they bring in.

Stop trying to take control of the internet, I will be looking into a new company to take my money and not limit me. Thanks Comcast for making not want to give you my money anymore. I sure as hell wasted my time and money by switching from DSL.

Comments: 7

Comments:

sg88
on September 20th, 2007

Hey! Thanks for commenting on my nominations!

Too bad ur not a fan.. LOL!

Take Care!

--Sara

anonymous
on September 21st, 2007

Good job Frost. Keep up the good Fight.

fishy
on September 22nd, 2007

Thank you for the welcome frost. I really welcome it. Without your post i wouldn't have even known about comcast. Well done on the response. Good Luck,

fishy

anonymous
on November 30th, 2007

THE REWARDS PROGRAMS IS A TOATAL RIPOFF, I WONDER WHRE ALL THA MONEY WENT TO, SINCE I BOUGHT THE PRODUCTS WITH CODES TO GO TO A GOOD CAUSE, THE REWARD SITE IS TOTALLY UNACCESSABLE ONCE YOU PUT IN YOUR POINTS.

anonymous
on August 05th, 2008

"Bit Torrent traffic is not all illegal."
That's like saying not all people who have looked at child porn are pedofiles.

If torrents we're taking down at least 70% of all warez would be eliminated. PROVE ME WRONG.

Or at least they could just block the sites that host torrents for illegal material knowingly and do nothing about it.

anonymous
on August 06th, 2008

good

frost
on August 21st, 2008

Reply to August 5th:

So now we are pedophiles? lol Apples and oranges dude. If torrents were taken down, people would find other ways to traffic warez.

Bit torrents do help out many corporations by providing a low-bandwidth means of getting their software out there LEGALLY. Just because others abuse the network does not mean it should be shut down. As far as the sites out there that knowingly host illegal software, I agree they should be shutdown.

It is exactly like saying, "Oh that murderer used a knife made by x-company, x-company is to blame for him killing the victim." People make the choices to do the illegal part.

But you cannot deny that Bit Torrent's are a great tool for Open-Source and low income corporations who want to save money legally.