Somehow, the media at large has morphed the bandwidth throttling issue into one of anti-competitive practices by saying Comcast is throttling bandwidth to “competitors' services”, no doubt to further the basic journalistic ideals of sensationalism, spin and hype. This corruption of the truth would be completely accurate if software, music and video thieves, the primary users of the BitTorrent and other P2P protocols, were as a group a legitimate competitor to the truly legitimate services provided to Comcast's paying customers. Since they are mostly thieves, they have no legitimacy whatsoever to make a claim of any sort against Comcast. They should be considering themselves very lucky that Comcast doesn’t submit a copy of their user logs to the FBI for antipiracy investigation.

Alas, a mass of pseudo-injured pro-BitTorrent cry-babies will state that "Oh, sure, a lot of music, video and software pirates use BitTorrent and P2P networks, but there ARE legitimate users of BitTorrent as well, and I am not one of those pirates." Well, for those few "legitimate" BitTorrent users out there, find a truly legitimate channel to conduct your business, rather than hanging out with the great unwashed thieving masses who make up the vast majority of your cult. Comcast's bandwidth management practices are NOT a civil rights issue in the slightest. It's a business and legal issue, and the ISP is on firm legal and moral ground in both categories to cut off service to thieves.