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Totally with you; this story sounds made-up.

>>Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren’t so-to-speak legal.

So what does Comcast think about people who use VPN? Maybe VPN also illegal now? Privacy is dead? Next up, curtains on the windows of your house are also illegal.

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It's interesting to read what BBC thinks about that [1].

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/bbc-isps-should-assume-heavy-vpn-use...

So it's really going to happen... slowly, in the name of piracy(but we know that's not really why), any form of encrypted communication will become illegal. Oh, and of course this won't apply to affluent.

Or 3rd-party DNS.

well, it's possible for Comcast to inspect the hostname of a DNS query even if its destination is not Comcast's nameservers.

Not if the communication with the DNS server is encrypted, for example with this service: http://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn/features/vyprdns

Don't even need to use a VPN. DNSCrypt encrypts DNS queries.

http://dnscrypt.org/

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