The $1.77 trillion FCC fine for Comcast - Official inquiry begins
Last week, news broke that Comcast may be paying a steep FCC fine to the tune of $1.77 trillion dollars for throttling peer-to-peer traffic such as BitTorrent. Yesterday, Comcast confirmed that it has received official word that it is under the investigation of the FCC, but an FCC spokesman would not confirm the letter, saying that "Enforcement Bureau communications of this type were not to be made public," according to Multichannel News.If you had hopes that Comcast is going to be held responsible for even a fraction of that $1.77 trillion, think again. Although it made some ripples in the blogosphere, Comcast will most likely wiggle out of this one just fine. Apparently, FCC policies aren't exactly formal "rules" and as such are flexible when it comes to "network management."
So what does Comcast say? Naturally, that they are in accordance with FCC policies since "reasonable network management is necessary for the good of all customers." In other words, it's fine if we throttle your BitTorrent connection since it's for the good of all. Wonderful. They are probably going to resolve this all over a cup of coffee anyway. "Oh that neutrality thing? Yea, you know, peak times, things get busy, networks need to be managed - always have to keep in mind the common good, right?"
[via paidContent.org]
Get a WordPress.com Blog
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
shanoboy said 3:41PM on 1-15-2008
My torrent speeds were really suffering for a while then about 3 weeks ago they came right back to normal. I guess they backed off when the investigations began.
Reply
keeves said 6:34PM on 1-15-2008
Everyone seems to think that it is realy bad that they were throttling the speed, etc. however this is probably advantageous for most users, speeding up normal services, and was probably only done to improve the service that Comcast were offering.
Reply
Lee said 3:42AM on 1-16-2008
Warning: incoming car analogy
--
..this is probably advantageous for most users..
--
By the same logic, if police pulled-over everyone driving a red car, everyone else would have an easier time driving to work every morning. Surely that's a good thing?
Reply
rndmnme said 8:41AM on 1-16-2008
Actually that would make traffic horrendous because the black, blue, yellow, green, silver, purple, gray, teal, gold, and tan cars would stop to look at the people getting pulled over...
...now if the internet were a series of tubes...