FCC Seeks Comment In Comcast P2P Investigation 82
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The FCC has officially opened proceedings investigating Comcast's use of Sandvine to send RST packets and 'throttle' P2P connections by disconnecting them. The petitioner, Vuze, Inc. is asking the FCC to rule that Comcast's measures do not constitute 'reasonable network management' per the FCC rules and to forbid Comcast from unreasonably discriminating against lawful Internet applications, content, and technologies. If you want to weigh in on these proceedings, you can use the Electronic Comment Filing System to comment on WC Docket no. 07-52 any time before February 13th."
Excellent Use of Slashdot Power (Score:5, Insightful)
Forging packets = questionable activity (Score:4, Insightful)
And monkeys might fly out of my butt... (Score:5, Insightful)
Why, so they can ignore it again?
The public who understands it, opposes it. The rest of the public has no clue what they even asked (though would oppose it if they did). And the FCC will still side with the three comments from guys like Rupert Murdoch.
Re:Excellent Use of Slashdot Power (Score:2, Insightful)
You must be n... no, that's too easy. Try reading /. at -1 from time to time, you might reconsider your above statement after that.
Re:Excellent Use of Slashdot Power (Score:4, Insightful)
Thanks for the chuckle. You'll want to set your filter to below "+4" sometime; the vast majority of slashdotters are just as uninformed as the rest of the public -- except worse, because we don't /know/ we're just as uninformed.
Kevin Martin has selective attention disorder (Score:3, Insightful)
Concerned citizens = Kevin Martin hears nothing
If Kevin Martin can ignore the public outrage about relaxing media ownership rules that he witnessed personally at several town hall meetings, he'll have no trouble ignoring a bunch of public comments on the internet. He's a corporate lapdog. This Comcast "investigation" is merely a formality and a complete joke.
Re:Excellent Use of Slashdot Power (Score:4, Insightful)
Both are correct. We have some of the most well informed, and some of the biggest idiots around. I feel sorry for the FCC since the commenst section isn't moderated. No browsing at +2 for them.
Re:Forging packets = questionable activity (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Deja Vu (Score:3, Insightful)