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Comcast to set monthly bandwidth limits

Beginning October 1, Comcast, the largest provider of cable broadband in the U.S., will impose a monthly limit of 250 gigabytes of bandwidth on residential users. Customers who exceed the 250 G-byte... Read more...

FCC set to vote against Comcast

If reports are to be believed, the majority of FCC commissioners will vote... Read more...

Google to develop software to detect ISP throttling

Always vocal about its stance in favor of net neutrality, Google has finally thrown down the gauntlet and declared that it is working on software tools that will enable users to detect whether their... Read more...

Comcast testing new methods of throttling bandwidth

In the wake of the furor over the way Comcast uses TCP reset flags to throttle BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, the company is testing out a trio of protocol agnostic methods of... Read more...

DOS attack against Revision3’s services traced to MediaDefender

Revision3, an online media company has alleged that an outage experienced over the long Memorial Day weekend was traced to a Denial of Service (DOS) attack initiated by servers owned by

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TorrentSpy gets shut down in the U.S.

Seeing how no readers of DailyTechRag would ever download copyrighted media from the Internet with the aid of BitTorrent files, this is likely the first you've heard of TorrentSpy, a popular Torrent... Read more...