Comcast backs off BitTorrent, will continue to manage internet traffic
By Darren Murph | March 27, 2008
Filed under: Networking
Although Comcast has been beating around the proverbial bush about its data-meddling ways, it seems the pressure from the recent FCC investigation efforts have forced it to play nice. Reportedly, the firm is getting set to (begrudgingly, we presume) announce that it will “stop targeting BitTorrent on the internet.” More specifically, the cable company will purportedly “boost broadband capacity” in order to make things speedier all around, but details on this tidbit were unsurprisingly absent. Nevertheless, BitTorrent has also agreed to make its software “more efficient,” but those hoping that Comcast would leave well enough alone are in for even more disappointment. The outfit still plans on managing traffic on the ‘net (standard practice, we know), but Tony Werner, executive VP and CTO, noted that it was “working hard on a different approach that is protocol-agnostic during peak periods.”
[Thanks, Mike and Kenneth]
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