After a lengthy and sometimes bitter confrontation, the two Internet giants BitTorrent and Comcast have agreed to work together on the issue of bandwidth management. As many BitTorrent users undoubtedly know, Comcast was accused last year of "delaying" BitTorrent uploads. This practice led to a frenzy of criticism, generated a political firestorm, and revived the debate on net neutrality.

Today's announcement, made by Comcast and BitTorrent, Inc., mitigates many of the concerns of mainstream BitTorrent users. According to the agreement, the new network management policy of Comcast will be "protocol agnostic". In other words, BitTorrent won't be the only target of bandwidth management; rather all heavy users, regardless of what program or protocol, will see their connection throttled. The current practice of resetting uploads for the average user appears to be over.