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FCC Seeks Comment In Comcast P2P Investigation

Posted by kdawson on from the put-it-in-neutral dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The FCC has officially opened proceedings investigating Comcast's use of Sandvine to send RST packets and 'throttle' P2P connections by disconnecting them. The petitioner, Vuze, Inc. is asking the FCC to rule that Comcast's measures do not constitute 'reasonable network management' per the FCC rules and to forbid Comcast from unreasonably discriminating against lawful Internet applications, content, and technologies. If you want to weigh in on these proceedings, you can use the Electronic Comment Filing System to comment on WC Docket no. 07-52 any time before February 13th."

6 of 82 comments (clear)

  1. Slashdot commenting by yincrash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Getting slashdot users to comment to the FCC, smartest idea EVER.

    1. Re:Slashdot commenting by AndersOSU · · Score: 5, Funny

      I tried. For some reason I lose my connection to the FCC after only a few seconds...

    2. Re:Slashdot commenting by u-235-sentinel · · Score: 2, Funny

      I tried. For some reason I lose my connection to the FCC after only a few seconds...

      Don't tell me. Your provider is Concast right? ;-)

      I had to ask

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  2. First post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well, it would have been, if Comcast weren't throttling my connections...

  3. Something really strange when I filled it out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My complaint turned into:

    "I am a happy Comcast customer and I love P2P blocking! In fact, I wish they would block everything! Piracy is BAD!"

    Think Comcast had something to do with it?

  4. Some of these comments are great! by ironwill96 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I actually looked up some of the comments filed so far and it looks like the FCC needs to employ a spam filter of some sort.

    Apparently the FCC is in need of purchasing some new life insurance: Submitted Comment

    They also need to buy some new cell phones from Hong Kong!: Submitted Comment

    Luckily, there are a few good comments such as this set of form letters (read: petition) found here: Submitted Comment

    Ok, there are a few good comments there at least, I like this Rome analogy here: Submitted Comment

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