How to avoid the BitTorrent blockade
More and more internet service providers are blocking traffic to P2P file-sharing services. Find out whether you've been targeted, and learn how to get around the restrictions.
With this in mind we've rounded up a number of tips and tools that can help you determine whether you're facing a BitTorrent blockade and, if so, help you get around it.
Vuze, a company that makes peer-to-peer (P2P) software and uses the platform to distribute content, published a study in April in which it concluded that all US broadband providers including; AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Charter Communications, ComCast Time Warner Cable and Verizon disrupt P2P traffic. Vuze asserted that these ISPs regularly send 'false reset' messages to the Vuze software with the aim of slowing file transfers.
