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FCC To Investigate Comcast
Comcast could face fines because of throttling BitTorrent traffic to the tune of $195,000 be incident, so says FCC chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC has acknowledged they are looking into complaints from individuals and advocacy groups after the Associated Press revealed the Internt cable provider was interferring and delaying BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer services using the Gnutella network. Comcast is accused if blocking some transfer and reducing the number of peers available over the BitTorrent network. If found guilty of violating the basic principles of network neutrality by preferring certain data types over others, Comcast could face fines of $195,000 per affected subscriber. If you are a Comcast customer offering legitimate and legal files over BitTorrent and believe your transfers have been purposely or maliciously capped, throttled or denied by Comcast, you should contact FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and make your case known. No Internet provider should act as lord and master over the transfer or content Internet.