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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.""
What the FCC *ought* to do is say:
"OK, Comcast: you've decided you are going to pick and choose what traffic you want to carry. Fine - it's your equipment, it's your call, do what you want.
HOWEVER: since you've appointed yourselves the arbiter of what your system will carry, you are no longer a common carrier and you are no longer afforded the protections of a common carrier.
Have a nice day - oh, and BTW: Here's all the items over which we will be bringing enforcement action, since you are no longer a common carrier...."
www.eFax.com are spammers
How about a boatload of telco execs and isp bosses sitting in front of a senate hearing explaining what they did with the 200 billion dollars they got in upped usage fees and so on during the last decade to build out the infrastructure? Where'd all that money go? From that link "In exchange for building these networks, the Bell companies ALL received changes in state laws that gave these them excessive profits, tax savings, and other perks to be used in building these networks."
Let's stop dumping on ourselves for trying to use what was promised and never built. We got GOUGED and ripped off and they bribed off enough people in government to make the whole thing just disappear, just like the two TRILLION dollars that disappeared in the defense budget that hit the news on September TENTH 2001, never to be heard from again since that amazingly coincidental "terrorist attack" that happened on the eleventh, the next frikkin day.. 200 billion is not chump change, and 2 trillion is simply an astounding figure, that pays for a lot of improved infrastructure that could handle much higher demand. Two trillion could pay for a huge national alternative energy infrastructure roll out. We got outright blatantly stolen from by a small handful of very wealthy people, and for some reason the media and government seem to just ignore it for the most part. Nope, their fault for being greedy crooks, their fault we have rank internet connections compared to many other nations, and that we are still the perpetual debt servitude for life chattel of the oil and defense (really is offense any more, slimy blood profiteers) armaments industries. They flat out stole our modern communications and energy infrastructure to pay off already wealthy wall street globalists.