Seems Comcast got into a little bit of trouble recently with the FCC. Turns out they were arbitrarily disconnecting high-band with BitTorrent uses for no legitimate reason.
They claim they were only trying to "keep the pipes open" for the majority of users. First, this seems to be a violation of terms of service, since they never informed customers that such a practice was in place. Unfortunately, the FCC did not hand down a fine with there order, but it does set a precedent against future such actions.
Now I'll put my conspiracy cap on and wonder... why target just BitTorrent? Because it's the belief that the majority of torrent traffic is illegal music and movies? But at no point did Comcast try to determine if the torrents where transmitting legal or illegal content. Either way, I'm sure the RIAA and MPAA would be giddy to see BitTorrent rendered a useless Internet tool with these heavy handed approaches.
For more details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902077.html?wpisrc=newsletter
