.~Javier Plumey~.|Fatih, Technology, Politics, Whatever.

I don’t download illegal movies and music and I don’t upload anything illegal (or even that large) via BitTorrent, but I do upload about 4-8 GB a week:

• I run a backup of my three systems up to JungleDisk
• I upload at least 2 GB a week of pictures to my Smugmug account
• During podcast season, I upload 120 MB+  of audio, images, etc. (for the final podcast) and 600MB for a backup of the lossless AAC file.

Will Comcast target me and list me as a black-list user? I don’t know but it makes me worry. Oi.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Comcast-Tests-User-Throttling/

Comcast claims only a handful of users are clogging its broadband network and slowing it down for the vast majority of users.

In testing beginning in three markets June 6, Comcast plans to compile a blacklist of its heaviest users who may find their Internet speeds
slowed during peak network hours, regardless of the software used to
download files. Comcast insists most users will not be affected by the
approach.

I prefer Time-Warner’s tiered approach where heavey users are charged somewhere in the order of $1-2 US a GB for going over their alloted amount.

What do you think? Are you going to be black-listed?