A welcome sign for disgruntled and network "managed" consumers.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9889825-7.html?tag=blThe Federal Communications Commission is edging toward taking action against cable operator Comcast for monkeying with its customers' peer-to-peer traffic, according to several news reports.
On Friday FCC Chairman Kevin Martin indicated during a speech at Stanford University's Law School that the commission may take action against the cable operator, which has been accused of blocking or slowing down the peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent on its broadband network.
Martin didn't say for certain that the FCC would take action against Comcast. But he did say that he was troubled by Comcast's initial denial of slowing or blocking traffic, according to news reports from people who attended the speech. What worried him most was the fact that Comcast wasn't forthcoming to its customers about what it was doing.
"A hallmark of what should be seen as a reasonable business practice is certainly whether or not the people engaging in that practice are willing to describe it publicly," The Wall Street Journal quoted Martin as saying.
It seems the normal corporate thing to do these days is to try to brazen things out when a major scandal becomes public gossip, Comcast will I hope be told in unequivocal terms that their style of traffic "management" is unacceptable as a respectable business practice.
