If the government would interfere with that type of website, how long before they start messing with other freedom-promoting sites...including this one?JimRob pays for all of the bandwidth he uses; Schulz doesn't.
This isn't "the government," it's really annoyed backbone network admins who weren't expecting Schulz to inject that much traffic.
Multicast doesn't work that way. If you think you know that much about T1/T3, then you should also know multicast cuts bandwidth usage by splitting it down at the node. This requires only one "copy" on the backbone.
If they wouldn't have dumped his first attempt at the 'cast, then they wouldn't have run into bandwidth problems when users started multiple download threads.