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FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking

Posted by Zonk on 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.""

2 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The music and movie industry is saved! by KnightED · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are many more things then illegal files that this is in use for in particular World of Warcraft Patching among some others. I Can only imagine more Businesses starting to use this to deliver their content as fast as possible.

  2. Re:Remove their common carrier status by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They aren't a common carrier now, so unfortunately there's nothing to revoke. Telcos have this classification but ISPs do not.