[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

Actually, filtering the protocol is what is illegal. Net neutrality. That is the actual word (phrase) that applies here. Comcast got blasted for it by the FCC in the USA. They were blocking and slowing down bit torrent traffic and the FCC forced them to stop. It may be legal in Canada, I don't know, but it is illegal here in the states. That's why AT&T and Apple blocked the Sling Player app, instead of just blocking the protocol (and the FCC then asked them about that anyway). AT&T has it in their terms and conditions that streaming tv is against the rules. They do not block the protocol though. AT&T (and all the carriers here in the states) have been fighting Net Neutrality for a while now. See here for some info on this:
http://www.phonenews.com/did-the-fcc...rictions-3971/
"The FCC last week ruled that Comcast was in violation of its licenses by interfering with BitTorrent traffic. While the FCC’s ruling was nebulous at best, it was the first major win for the Net Neutrality supporters. Essentially, the FCC is taking the position that, so long as network activity is not abusive, that a carrier cannot interfere with such traffic."

There is a ton of info on this here:
http://www.freepress.net/freemyphone

Also, see the link in my sig as that is what it is all about...

yes but understand when u sign up for your service your agreeing to allow them to enforce network traffic shaping in order to "enable equal access to all" thats exactly how they get around this. they shape a protocol to the point thats its unusable if the see fit. my ISP does this to my bittorent protocol. i have to encrypt my packets to get them stop it. Some ISP's will send simple reset packets to your client if they want you to no use that protocol on then network as well. this is another way ISP's employ to prevent P2P.