FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Blocks BitTorrent

master_p writes "The FCC's formally issued draft net neutrality regulations have a huge copyright loophole in them; a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was 'reasonable network management' intended to 'prevent the unlawful transfer of content.' The new proposed net neutrality regulations would allow the same practices that net neutrality was first invoked to prevent, even if these ISP practices end up inflicting collateral damage on perfectly lawful content and activities."

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Re:bitTorrent was used to spread the CRU emails

[mikael_j]

I'm going off-topic here but I wouldn't say those emails even remotely proved "how climate change is a hoax", what they did prove however was that there were/are some questionable practices among a subset of climate researchers, I have yet to see any proof of the emails proving that climate change (caused by humans) is a fraud, just that the data these researchers were using was being modified in some very questionable ways.

/Mikael