Comcast to throttle some customers' Web speeds

Found on CNet News on Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Comcast reportedly plans to reduce Internet service to customers it deems to be using too much bandwidth, a move that comes on the heels of federal regulators ruling that the Internet service provider violated the law by throttling BitTorrent transfers.

Comcast had said that its measures to slow BitTorrent transfers, which it voluntarily ended in March, were necessary to prevent its network from being overrun.

So, in other words, Comcast punishes customers for using the connection they are paying for. Seems they forgot to improve their network over the past years.