Behaving badly? Bang bang

It hasn't been a good week for Comcast.

First a furious customer took a claw hammer to a few phones at corporate, then AP News discovered that the company may be taking the net neutrality controversy into its own hands.

AP News investigated a reader's claim that the cable juggernaut is intentionally slowing downloading speeds on torrents. Tests of the claim on the East and West coasts found the claim to be more or less true, according to reporters.
AP chose to download the uncopyrighted King James Bible. Two of the three tests were blocked altogether; the remaining test had a 10-minute delay.

Like most ISPs Comcast opposes net neutrality, which privileges users that access the web for one reason versus another.

And while AP's tests just touch the surface of the Comcast controversy, Ars Technica believes they're onto something. Other sources have also observed that Comcast may be fiddling with torrents.

Legal or not, it comes as bad news for internet subscribers that feel entitled to using the web in any way they choose, short of harming others.