Comcast Finally Files Suit Against FCC Over Traffic Shaping

Following up on their threat last year to sue the FCC over sanctions imposed, Comcast has finally filed suit, stating that there are no statutes or regulations that support the FCC's authority to stop traffic shaping procedures. "First, let's recap: After months of proceedings, hearings, and investigations, the FCC concluded on August 1, 2008 that Comcast was discriminating against certain P2P applications using deep packet inspection techniques. These methods thwarted the ability of users to share video and other files via BitTorrent. 'Comcast was delaying subscribers' downloads and blocking their uploads,' declared then FCC Chair Kevin Martin. 'It was doing so 24/7, regardless of the amount of congestion on the network or how small the file might be. Even worse, Comcast was hiding that fact by making [affected] users think there was a problem with their Internet connection or the application.'"

Comments

Republicans

[Brian Gordon]

Do you need any more proof that the government needs strong regulative powers?

Re:Republicans

[TheRaven64]

Why are you finding this difficult to understand. Republicans are evil. Everything that is wrong with the world (not just America, and certainly not just things that they have influence over) is the fault of the Republicans. Or Microsoft.

Incidentally, am I the only one that thinks a republican sounds like someone who is a publican again?

Re:Precisely.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it's like if you stole an iPod, mailed it to your favorite fence, and then the postal workers noticed you mailed it to a known fencer of stolen goods, and confirmed it with the FBI and then looked inside and, yep, it's a stolen iPod alright, so they made sure it didn't reach its destination.

Oh, right, I forgot, you just use bittorrent for getting your latest Linux distro ... right? Asshole.