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 We tend to think of FCC chair Kevin Martin as a conservative politician who's been overly interested in keeping the airwaves free of cusswords and nipples. But for the time being he's doing a good imitation of a net neutrality crusader. AP:
The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he would recommend that Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.
The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint that Comcast had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of file-sharing software that allowed them to exchange large amounts of data.
'The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet,' the commission chairman, Kevin J. Martin, told The Associated Press late Thursday. 'We found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles.'
...Mr. Martin's order would require Comcast to stop its practice of blocking, provide details to the commission on the extent and manner in which the practice was used and give consumers detailed information on how it planned to manage its network in the future.
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| BitTorrent, Comcast (CMCSA) Shake Hands, Downloaders Still Screwed | | Comcast and BitTorrent will work together to make peer-to-peer file downloads work more efficiently, the companies said today. Good news for BitTorrent? Sure. Will it get the FCC off Comcast's back? Maybe. Good news for Comcast customers? Nope.
Why's that? Because instead of just slowing down BitTorrent file transfers, Comcast says that by the end of the year, it will start slowing down [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Mar-2008 by Silicon in NFLXCMCSAAAPL
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| Comcast Still Hates Its Customers, Still Not Secure | | Ooooooooh Comcast. If there’s one person whose service you probably shouldn’t terminate without cause and who you shouldn’t made idle threats against, it’s probably Dave Winer. You know, the guy who invented blogging? Yesterday, Winer posted at length with regards to a recent ordeal with Comcast. To paraphrase, Comcast identified Winer as a customer using [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Apr-2008 by Zach Epstein in OpinionsNetworks
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