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Comcast's win in court is bad news for BitTorrent fans
Comcast just won its appeal of a 2008 FCC ruling, and BitTorrent users may end up the losers. Comcast was effectively blocking torrents using "network management" techniques, and the FCC ordered them to make their network management scheme public and stop singling out BitTorrent traffic. This week's Court of Appeals ruling reverses that FCC decision and gives Comcast free reign again, TorrentFreak reports.The Court said that the FCC doesn't actually have the power to regulate the way an ISP shapes its bandwidth. That means Comcast and other service providers can go right ahead and prioritize some types of traffic over others. That's potentially bad news for customers, especially torrent-loving customers. TorrentFreak speculates that FCC may continue this fight by appealing to the US Supreme Court or looking to Congress for expanded regulatory powers.
The net neutrality war soldiers on...!
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Subscribe to commentsder_tuxmanApr 7th 2010 10:49AM
Who cares about dead philosophies?
Praveen PremchandranApr 7th 2010 11:47PM
Hmm... What about the good torrents like linux distros?
**Rolls eyes**
Boomshadow...Mike BoomshadowApr 8th 2010 10:10AM
We need to develop a global mesh network and render traditional ISPs obsolete. It should theoretically be possible to build wireless equipment to do this using items we have around the home. I don't care if it's a wireless access point with a Pringles® can stuck to it with chewing gum--we need control over the airwaves.
alexApr 8th 2010 4:56PM
From what I'm reading, it's a lot more than making them clarify on their contracts. The FCC 'is' in fact looking into regulating market behavior. The same agency pushing for the Fairness Doctrine, a law that would dictate talk radio hosts to have an equal amount of callers with equal views....The same agency that dictate radio stations what type of subject matter is aloud to be on the airwaves. We allow the FCC to breach into the internet industry as well, and there will be more regulations to come. Just analyze the policies and behavior this agency already has with the airways, and tell me they are not capable of doing the same.
Are these companies really all that bad? Some of the ways they conduct their business we might not agree with, and maybe they have legitimate reasons for doing so....but good god, man...we have benefitted from their services in so many ways. They allow me to network, promote my portfolio, look for a job, play x-box with friends that are thousands of miles away, have a blog of my own. I mean possibly the most expansive medium for freedom we have ever had...at an affordable price. I think some of us take this for granted. Should we really go down this path and label them as the boogie man? In exchange for what? Protection from an agency that continuously places limitations on freedom of speech?
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