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This is a press release I thought we might never see: a joint issue from Comcast and BitTorrent, announcing plans to work together to “more effectively address issues associated with rich media content and network capacity management.”
Essentially, the release features a kiss-and-make up statement from each company, with Comcast acknowledging the need to give people a choice in what services they access online, while BitTorrent admitted that its service can be a huge bandwidth hog, stating, “While we think there were other management techniques that could have been deployed, weunderstand why Comcast and other ISPs adopted the approach that they did initially.”
Additionally, the two companies state that they will be working with other ISPs and the Internet Engineering Task Force to create p2p solutions that the entire industry can live with.