The intent of Comcast is to take action against people who download illigal movies and hog so much bandwidth that other subsribers on that same node get slowed down badly. When a Comcast internet user exceeds a certain amount of volume - very considerable - in a month then that user gets slowed down in the interest of other users.
I do not believe that Comcast has any hidden agenda. Still it is a little troubling, because now that there is that potential, some activists may start to bug them to use that as a tool to combat porn. Because porn is evil, you know.
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