Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast
                   
infoworld.com     Aug 5, 2008            

August 05, 2008 | Comments: (0) Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast The FCC ruling [PDF] announced over the weekend opens up an interesting debate over the evolution of Web access going forward. Following complaints from Free Press and Public Knowledge made last October, the FCC investigated the charge that Comcast interfered with "Internet users' right to access the lawful Internet content and to use the applications of their choice," according to the FCC statement released with the ruling. Basically, after investigating the complaints, the FCC was satisfied that Comcast was blocking and/or slowing down access to peer-to-peer connections and the applications that were used to facilitate them. In particular, the broadband provider was discriminating against BitTorrent, a Web-based file-sharing application that allows... [read full story]                    


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