Comcast Flexing its "Information Services" Muscle

The basic argument against NetNeutrality is that 1) telecommunication company's need to have the flexibility to innovate in response to a rapidly changing industry which correlates to; regulation = bad. 2) Companies won't invidiously block or filter content because it is bad for business.

I have blogged on this in the past a bit.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com

Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic

By PETER SVENSSON

The Associated Press Friday, October 19, 2007; 6:32 PM

 

NEW YORK -- Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.

The response to these are: 1) That's crap, 2) That's crap

Here's the Google News URL of over 300 news stories...

Here is the CNet take on it

clipped from www.news.com

October 19, 2007 11:06 AM PDT

   

Comcast really does block BitTorrent traffic after all

   

        Posted by         Declan McCullagh                      

       

For a few months Comcast has been the subject of scattered reports that say it throttles BitTorrent traffic.

TorrentFreak said in August that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with file transfers by posing as one party and then, essentially, hanging up the phone. But when we contacted Comcast at the time, it flatly denied doing it.

 

Thanks to tests reported Friday by the Associated Press, however, it's clear that Comcast is actively interfering with peer-to-peer networks even if relatively small files are being transferred.

Here's a great post aggregating multiple other posts.

clipped from www.computerworld.com

Comcast resets BitTorrent users; net neutrality lovers lash out (and "Them" vs. "Us")  

           

           

Mon, 10/22/2007 - 6:46am

        

 

Leech this! It's IT Blogwatch: in which Comcast gets outed for secretly disconnecting BitTorrent seeds. Not to mention contrasting views of the West and the Middle-East...