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Title: Comcast sued for delaying file sharing connections
Post by: JimH on November 15, 2007, 08:33:31 am

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A San Francisco Bay area subscriber to Comcast Corp.'s high-speed Internet service has sued the company, alleging it engages in unfair business practices by interfering with subscribers' file sharing.

Subscriber Jon Hart based his claims on the results of an investigation by the Associated Press published last month that showed Philadelphia-based Comcast actively interferes with attempts some high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online.

Complete article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination;_ylt=AvcAAiKEwpFGY03dTkxc8Pas0NUE

Title: Re: Comcast sued for delaying file sharing connections
Post by: hit_ny on November 15, 2007, 09:18:41 am

Who gets to decide what’s important and what’s not? Who sets these priorities? That question lies at the heart of an important practice called Network Neutrality (http://gcrumb.livejournal.com/186201.html)

Me thinks comcast is testing the waters..legally speaking.

If by some incredible chance they end up winning, it could set up one heck of a precedent.