Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates

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This is a pretty big change in policy. Does anyone have any ideas on why they would shift policy this much? My only guesses would be the following in order of likelihood:

1) Expected court rulings 2) Cost of compliance with no real legal obligation to do so 3) Leadership change to someone that is against this kind of copyright enforcement

Probably the cost of compliance, especially since they have a point (that court orders should be used in pursuit of court proceeding instead of shakedowns). Comcast owns a majority stake in NBC Universal so I don't think they're looking to weaken any real copyright enforcement measures.

They also have gotten pretty bad publicity in the past for their bandwidth restrictions to torrent users. Might be affecting the bottom line (more than piracy is affecting NBC).

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