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Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling

Posted by timothy on from the must-bring-enough-throttle-for-the-whole-class dept.

negRo_slim writes with some welcome news from Ars Technica: "Comcast has 30 days to disclose the details of its 'unreasonable network management practices' to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency warned Wednesday morning as it released its full, 67-page Order. As FCC Chair Kevin Martin said it would, the Commission's Order rejects the ISP giant's insistence that its handling of peer-to-peer applications was necessary. 'We conclude that the company's discriminatory and arbitrary practice unduly squelches the dynamic benefits of an open and accessible Internet,' the agency declares." And from reader JagsLive comes news that Comcast has a different plan in place to deal with heavy bandwidth users: slow traffic for up to 20 minutes at a time to users who are grabbing the most bits.

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  1. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And from reader JagsLive comes news that Comcast has a different plan in place to deal with heavy bandwidth users: slow traffic for up to 20 minutes at a time to users who are grabbing the most bits.

    Awesome. So now I can stop my DOS attacks for 20 minutes at a time, and let comcast take over?

  2. Re:What happens after 30 days? by jgarra23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh- I pay all my child support on time or in advance, I'm just using that as an example of uneven punishments via the govt.

  3. Now ya done it. by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The FCC rejects Comcast's insistence that it does not have the authority to take these steps.

    Want to royally piss off any governmental agency? Tell them they don't have the authority to do what they're doing. They'll find SOME way to get you.

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
  4. New Comcast ToC by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 5, Funny

    The New Comcast ToC is clear and concise:

    You can pay for all the bandwidth that you want
    as long as you don't use it.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  5. perfectly reasonable... by Thornburg · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Comcast has 30 days to disclose the details of its 'unreasonable network management practices'

    I can hear it now... "But our practices are all perfectly reasonable, your Honor, we do not practice unreasonable practices here at Comcast."

  6. Re:Unix scheduling model for bandwidth? by darkpixel2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you multicast when each household can decide to start, pause, stop, fast-forward and rewind the video whenever they want?

    To quote my father: It uses this really cool new technology called "FM".

    ...the "M" stands for Magic.

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    There's no place like ::1 (I've completed my transition to IPv6)