1 The joys of cross-continental data servers.

Something I'm amazed the Japanese haven't figured out, actually.

2 The real question is, how easy will it be to get someone reported? Doubtless none of the ISPs are going to be doing any cross-checking. If they're just working with "certain entertainment companies", anime fans don't have anything to worry about. If they're taking any complaints that anyone sends in, that's a different story.

On the other hand, none of the underlying fundamentals about the difficulties in actually suing anyone for this stuff have gone away. Theoretically you could report yourself a few times, hopefully timing it with a vacation where you're not using your account anyway, and then go on without ever having to worry about it again...

3 My ISP apparently has the tech to clamp down on my torrents, while still allowing good bandwidth to major services like YouTube etc.  Fortunately, I get the occasional respite.  But you can almost set the clock to when a 400+ k/s feed suddenly clamps down to <60.

4

If I let my torrents run wide open, it only takes a minute or two for Comcast to clamp down on my uplink, limiting it to 2 megabits per second, about 240 Kbytes. But I've got uTorrent set to limit to 200 Kbytes, so I never run into their limit.

On downloads I don't seem to have any problems. If I hit a healthy torrent I can often download at 1.3 MBytes per second, which I think is the maximum bandwidth of my link.

I should mention that I'm not a typical Comcast customer. I get my service from Comcast Commercial, and I pay about twice what a normal user would pay.

That's because I have a fixed IP and I run a server. Normal users aren't supposed to have servers. One thing I'll find interesting is whether Comcast Commercial does this thing at all; they might not. It might only be the other company.