Victory for P2P Users

[Tipsy]

Wall Street Journal: The FCC Nears a Finding On Violation by Comcast

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission is on the verge of finding Comcast Corp. violated federal policy by hampering the ability of customers to share large files online, a decision that would set a precedent over how much control phone and cable companies have over how consumers use the Internet.

Long story short, Comcast is getting fined in a class action law suit (supposedly upward of 5 million dollars) for cutting off internet to users of P2P programs. It's a 5 person panel (the FCC) that needs a majority to make a ruling, and although the ruling is next Friday, 3 of the 5 judges have already publicly announced they will rule against Comcast.

 

[Barney Stinson]

ComCast wasn't really in the fault on this imo.

They were just covering their asses. It's like Porn sites, they say "18+" but everyone knows that 10 year olds surf them all day when mommy and daddy are at work. Same thing here, they limit it cause backend they don't wanna get ****ed or sued for allowing this to happen. So they try and stop p2p and they get punished for it.

That's ****ing stupid.

 

[MacMan]

ComCast wasn't really in the fault on this imo.

They were just covering their asses. It's like Porn sites, they say "18+" but everyone knows that 10 year olds surf them all day when mommy and daddy are at work. Same thing here, they limit it cause backend they don't wanna get ****ed or sued for allowing this to happen. So they try and stop p2p and they get punished for it.

That's ****ing stupid.

No. P2P users are on the order of 10% of their customer base, yet they account for the majority of their bandwidth usage. Comcast doesn't want to pay for that bandwidth, and they sure as hell don't want to install fiber cables, so they said "**** you" to their paying customers, many of whom were not doing anything illegal, and basically cut them off. This is the same company that broadcasts YouTube-quality video on their "HD" stations. They do it because 1) they have a monopoly in most areas, and 2) they're greedy ****ers. ISP's will never be sued by corporations like the RIAA; this was the last of their concerns.

YOU'RE ****ING STUPID.

 

[x42bn6]

I agree with that. ISPs are happy to give out IP information if told to by a court but they're never in any danger of being sued by angry RIAA people.

In the UK, we have fair use clauses so if you go over a certain limit per day (even if it's advertised as unlimited), your service can be terminated.*

 

[MeltingPrism]

No. P2P users are on the order of 10% of their customer base, yet they account for the majority of their bandwidth usage. Comcast doesn't want to pay for that bandwidth, and they sure as hell don't want to install fiber cables, so they said "**** you" to their paying customers, many of whom were not doing anything illegal, and basically cut them off. This is the same company that broadcasts YouTube-quality video on their "HD" stations. They do it because 1) they have a monopoly in most areas, and 2) they're greedy ****ers. ISP's will never be sued by corporations like the RIAA; this was the last of their concerns.

YOU'RE ****ING STUPID.

They're dumb though, cause installing fiber cables is surely an investment that would help them; not hamper them. If company A had fiber cables and company B didn't. What company would you choose?

Plus it's a capital investment, which almost never backfires.

BTW name calling or degrading someone isn't an effective way of debating.

 

[Johnny]

Edit: Ugh, neighbors. *delete*

 

[coRtALoS]

No. P2P users are on the order of 10% of their customer base, yet they account for the majority of their bandwidth usage.

The best thing about statistics is how 90% of them can be altered by up to 75% about 50% of the time, and up to 100%, 25% of the time.

Cite sources pl0x.

 

[Wing Zero]

The best thing about statistics is how 90% of them can be altered by up to 75% about 50% of the time, and up to 100%, 25% of the time.

Cite sources pl0x.

it is ten percent