FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 1, 2007 @08:32AM from the hard-to-keep-up-with-the-annoyance-factor dept.

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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Comment removed by account_deleted · 2007-11-01 08:35 · Score: 5, Funny

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Re:The music and movie industry is saved! by Andrew+Nagy · 2007-11-01 08:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Huh? I'm still trying to figure out how Comcast was blatant and deceptive.

Wait, wait, I got it. They are so dumb, they failed at being deceptive and ended up being blatant! What kind of a world do we live in when a multi-million dollar evil corporation can't even be counted on to lie properly?!?

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