Just as the UK goes down a dark road at high speed a light flickers on in the US..
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16585Comcast must halt its practice of stopping its customers from sharing videos and other files online, says the US Federal Communications Commission.
It must also explain exactly how it went about ‘managing’ its Net traffic.
It isn’t, however, being fined for its anti-customer, anti-net neutrality actions.
“This is a bellwether case,” Bloomberg News has Marvin Ammori, general counsel of the group Free Press, which led efforts against Comcast, saying.
“It will send a public signal that phone and cable companies can’t interfere in Internet traffic.”
The FCC, “found it unreasonable for Comcast to discriminate against particular Internet applications, including BitTorrent, Martin said,” according to the story, which adds:
"The order said customers must receive adequate notice of network management practices. Martin said in a statement today operators must demonstrate they have ‘reasonable’ grounds to block legal content.
This is a sensible and fair announcement and makes the regulatory situation very clear to the ISP companies, that they are not free to defraud their customers by guile and stealth tactics.
