http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/08/10/free-the-web-from-the-fcc/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:22:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/08/10/free-the-web-from-the-fcc/comment-page-1/#comment-93742 Grant Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:26:30 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=9963#comment-93742 The reason for Comcast "throttling" Bittorrent traffic had less to do with giving their customers a better "experience"(If that had been the case, they would focus on streaming video, the real bandwith hog, or even better, expanded the bandwidth and encouraging more fiber optic lines to be laid.). It was an obvious attack on the illegal use of bittorrent for P2P piracy. Where Comcast went wrong, however, was that not only did they throttle illegal users of Bittorrent, but also the many legitimate uses of the new technology. Now since Now first lets take a step back and realize that BitTorrent is the name of both a company, and their invention of a safe and increasingly fast p2p traffic. I say "increasingly fast" because it gets faster when more people are downloading(the inverse is true normally). So What if Comcast has a deal with BitTorrent(the company), it doesn't change the fact that Comcast illegally cut back on their own customers use of Bittorrent traffic. This would be akin to Comcast throttling AIM traffic because it thinks some users are sending copyrighted songs to one another. That, in itself, is discrimination to all AIM users, as is throttling Bittorrent. Thus, the FCC rightfully decided in a 3-2 decision to protect internet neutrality from companies like Comcast to decide what types of traffic it allows you to use. The reason for Comcast “throttling” Bittorrent traffic had less to do with giving their customers a better “experience”(If that had been the case, they would focus on streaming video, the real bandwith hog, or even better, expanded the bandwidth and encouraging more fiber optic lines to be laid.). It was an obvious attack on the illegal use of bittorrent for P2P piracy. Where Comcast went wrong, however, was that not only did they throttle illegal users of Bittorrent, but also the many legitimate uses of the new technology. Now since
Now first lets take a step back and realize that BitTorrent is the name of both a company, and their invention of a safe and increasingly fast p2p traffic. I say “increasingly fast” because it gets faster when more people are downloading(the inverse is true normally). So What if Comcast has a deal with BitTorrent(the company), it doesn’t change the fact that Comcast illegally cut back on their own customers use of Bittorrent traffic. This would be akin to Comcast throttling AIM traffic because it thinks some users are sending copyrighted songs to one another. That, in itself, is discrimination to all AIM users, as is throttling Bittorrent. Thus, the FCC rightfully decided in a 3-2 decision to protect internet neutrality from companies like Comcast to decide what types of traffic it allows you to use.

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