FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking

Enter Sandvine writes "A handful of consumer groups have filed a complaint with the FCC over Comcast's "delaying" some BitTorrent traffic. The complaint seeks fines of $195,000 for each Comcast subscriber affected by the traffic blocking as well as a permanent injunction barring the ISP from blocking P2P traffic. '"Comcast's defense is bogus," said Free Press policy director Ben Scott. "The FCC needs to take immediate action to put an end to this harmful practice. Comcast's blatant and deceptive BitTorrent blocking is exactly the type of problem advocates warned would occur without Net Neutrality laws.""

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Re:If this works, we don't need net neutrality law

[drwav]

Traffic shaping is ALSO bad because they will just "shape" your traffic to near-zero. They call it Quality of Service but the only thing it will be used for is to REDUCE the quality of your service.

Goodbye Comcast

[digitaldc]

Based on how poorly Comcast treats its customers in sending them threatening emails and staggering their internet traffic, they are most likely scaring away many current and possible future customers.
There are plenty of competitors to choose from that don't treat their customers like criminals.

So goodbye Comcast, and good luck!