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+-   FCC steps up on Comcasrt P2P limitations...sort of-> on Monday February 25 2008, @07:27PM drmichael00

Submitted by drmichael00 on Monday February 25 2008, @07:27PM
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drmichael00 writes "In a public hearing earlier today at Harvard Law School, the FCC finally said it would punish internet service providers who violate basic net neutrality principles. At the hearing Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) laid out his view of the practice of limiting access to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like BitTorrent, Such intercession into a users access to the Internet should not result inthe transformation of BitTorrent into BitTrickle.

Last year, Comcast was busted by the Associated Press for limiting access to BitTorrents last year. But at the hearing, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen was unapologetic, What we are doing is a limited form of network management objectively based upon an excessive bandwidth-consumptive protocol during limited periods of network congestion. Uhhh, really?"

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