Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

First off, to my legion of loyal fans (yes, I read all the fan e-mail...j/k), sorry for such a significant absense. Have been hella-busy at work, but I have time now...atleast until I go off to school in 3 days! Ofcourse I can still post up there...its not like I am gonna study.
Slashdot is running a story about how Comcast is banning the use of VPN traffic over their network. As stated in their updated ToS..."THE SERVICE IS FOR PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY AND CUSTOMER AGREES NOT TO USE THE SERVICE FOR OPERATION...IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) OR A VPN TUNNELING PROTOCOL".
What the hell? I can understand why they would be upset about someone using a masqerading firewall to share the connection (not that they could actually detect that), but I see no problem with someone sending encrypted data over their network. The problem I DO see is with businesses who pay for employees to have a broadband connection at home and use it to VPN into the company LAN, and now they cannot do this. I use comcast, and I know the bandwidth is metered, so as long as people are using no more bandwidth than they are supposed to, I dont see why anyone would give a crap about whether its used for tunneled IP or whatever else...then again I dont own an ISP, now do I? Read the story, its pretty interesting. Even more interesting is the discussion where people are trying to figure out the difference between NAT and VPN :-)   slashdot.org post