US ISP Comcast is facing a lawsuit over those previously reported claims that they are blocking certain BitTorrent traffic.
Techie types have said that Comcast has started blocking certain or maybe all BitTorrent uploads - meaning that if one of their customers tries to upload content using a BitTorrent service their upload will be cut off.
While some record labels would probably welcome this move by Comcast - a lot of the material uploaded by BitTorrent is illegal music or movie files - the ISP say that any limits on uploads are just part of their 'bandwidth management' procedures, and not because any particular type of upload is being blocked.
But one Comcast customer is suing the ISP claiming that they have introduced limitations on their services which are in conflict with how they advertise those services. Jon Hart hopes to turn his lawsuit into a class action, and says in his litigation that the "defendants intentionally and severely impede the use of certain internet applications by their customers, slowing such applications to a mere crawl or stopping them altogether".
Comcast are yet to respond.