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FCC Votes To Punish Comcast

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-for-your-whoopin' dept.

MaineCoasts brings news that three out of the five FCC commissioners have voted in favor of punishing Comcast for their P2P throttling practices. The investigation of Comcast has been underway since January, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made clear their conclusion a couple weeks ago. Ars Technica has coverage as well, noting: "The initial report on the vote said nothing about which way Republican commissioners McDowell and Tate might lean. FCC watchers wouldn't be at all surprised to see both vote against the order; the really interesting moment could come if they support it. Having four or even five commissioners support the order would send a strong bipartisan signal to ISPs that they need to take great care with any sort of discriminatory throttling based on anything more specific than a user's total bandwidth."

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  1. Comcast's likely reaction to any FCC "punishment": by base3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ow, my wrist!

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  2. Comcast by mark72005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comcast will be along shortly to check any negative posts against their outgoing traffic logs.

  3. Punishment enough by Skapare · · Score: 4, Funny

    Punishment enough would be for the FCC to require Comcast to double the capacity of their network every 18 months.

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
    1. Re:Punishment enough by SupremoMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      Finally a reliable network, in 5 years...

    2. Re:Punishment enough by zach_the_lizard · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps they could call this "Moore's Law." (Yes, it doesn't apply to networks, but whatever)

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  4. Re:The Republicans are correct by Thiez · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Is it not at least an equally huge, if not ridiculous, stretch to claim that it is "absolutely legal?"

    How about 'barely legal'?

  5. This ruling will never stand by Skapare · · Score: 5, Funny

    All Comcast needs to do to get this overturned is find a judge that isn't a Comcast customer.

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
  6. Nice change of tactics... by NeuroManson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Instead of fining a single boob, the FCC moved up to fining plural boobs. Business as usual.

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  7. Re:Comcast's likely reaction to any FCC "punishmen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "In light of our recent wrist slapping, it has become necessary that we increase the cost of all our cable television packages by a small amount. The cost increase of $17.35 a month will be reflected on your bill starting on September 5th, 2008. Thank you for using ******* and have a great day!"