Tag: net neutrality

14 Nov 2008

Ars Channels CATO’s Tim Lee; Head Explodes

Why Ars, Why?! The full article basically claims that net neutrality is an inherent part of the internet infrastructure and that no matter what the carriers try to do, it will remain neutral. All that work by the FCC to reign in Comcast’s illegal connection severing activity was useless because users would have figured out [...]

18 Aug 2007

Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic

FsG writes “Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn’t seem to discriminate between legitimate and infringing torrent traffic, and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren’t helping. If more ISPs adopt [...]