Internet Providers Blocking Torrent Traffic

I dont’ know what is going on with the world today, or how much sway the MPAA and RIAA have, but apparently its quite a bit. I have been reading lately how certain ISP’s are attempting to block or cause problems with torrent traffic. This is totally unacceptable in my opinion. Its bad enough when they block certain ports, prevent web servers from running, ect. This is crossing the line in my opinion. To advertise things like “unlimited use” and “fastest internet” and then turn around and start packet sniffing and filtering is just bad business. I will not use an ISP that does this, and I hope that many of you out there will feel the same way. There are many valid torrents out there than do not violate copy write protection, like linux ISO’s, many of the files we share for projects ect, nearly all of the open source programs…the list goes on. I feel like we are a piece of stone that is just gradually getting chipped away, and I want to know if we are going to stand up and draw the line in the sand, or just keep letting things like this happen.

Check out this chart from azureus wiki.

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#United_States_of_America

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