This is a serious victory for network neutrality. The FCC has ruled that Comcast's throttling of peer-to-peer traffic violates internet traffic management rules.
From vnunet.com:
The head of the Federal Communications Commission has accused Comcast of breaking the rules of internet traffic management by throttling or blocking peer-to-peer traffic.
"The FCC has adopted a set of principles that protects consumer access to the internet," FCC chairman Kevin Martin told Associated Press on 10 July. "We found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles." [From FCC rules against Comcast on network throttling - vnunet.com]
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