We're certainly no strangers to the Machiavellian schemes of telecom companies in the US, where thanks to the, we've only just recently been able to dodge the nightmare scenario of ISPs being legally empowered to throttle their competitors' traffic.
ISPs have waged war against torrent traffic for years. In the US, before those few years where the FCC decided to give things a go without net neutrality ,in 2008 after throttling BitTorrent transfers. Legal protections and networking advances have seen those efforts subside somewhat in recent years, making it even wilder that Korean police found evidence suggesting that KT was distributing malware to its own customers as punishment for using P2P services.
According to the police investigation, the malware squad's operation allegedly followed internal KT discussions about minimizing ongoing networking costs and involved dozens of devices, calling into question just how isolated within the company the operation was. I'm no expert, but if it was me, I'd have maybe tried some IP bans instead?Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.