FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules

Several readers sent in word that the FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, is calling for sanctions and enforcement actions against Comcast for resetting BitTorrent traffic. "Mr. Martin will circulate an order recommending enforcement action against the company on Friday among his fellow commissioners, who will vote on the measure at an open meeting on Aug. 1... Martin, a Republican, will likely get support from the two Democrats on the commission, who are both proponents of the network neutrality concept. Those three votes would be enough for a majority on the five-member commission."

Watch out for tiger woods

[whtmarker]

It's not bittorrent comcast needs to worry about. It's Tiger Woods [crn.com]

Yeah, right. Unless...

[straponego]

Perhaps, Comcast, you have heard from my friend, Mr. McBribe?

These days, any time the US govt. feints in the direction of possibly enforcing a law against a large corporation (energy, oil, telecom, software, any polluter)... it can safely be considered an RFB. Request for Bribe.

If Comcast's unethical behaviour is altered for the better as a result of this, or they are at least seriously penalized, I will eat these words, and a friggin' Comcast van to boot.

Re:Is Martin acting within his bounds?

[daveatneowindotnet]

Yeah that'd be like a company changing their service agreement without notifying their customers.

internet rules?

[crankshot999]

I never knew that there were "internet rules" I imagine something like this happening... "You weren't being nice to the macbook, go stand in the corner with windows vista!"

Re:internet rules?

[rob1980]

There are plenty of internet rules. Don't post goatse/tubgirl pictures, don't say "first post" on a thread, don't badmouth Ron Paul, etc etc etc

Priests v2.0

[__aarcfd8085]

You want proof that societies don't evolve? Just look at the fact that the role priests used to play has been taken over by lawyers. Where people used to take every question to the priest for divination, now it's taken to lawyers.

Ah but you've forgotten our evolution is accelerating. All questions are directed to google.

Re:internet rules?

[BlackCobra43]

The first rule of the Internet is don't talk about the rules of the Internet.

Re:... except when you want it

[joo110]

Then all you have to do, is you yourself decide not to run BT when you are making a VoIP call... How hard is that?

Impossible, because answering a VoIP call would then require going to the computer and clicking the pause button on the bittorent client.