FCC to investigate Comcast BitTorrent filtering

January 09th, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced at CES last night that his agency will be looking into Comcast’s data-meddling ways. “Sure, we’re going to investigate and construct certain that no consumer is going to be blocked,” he said. Per FCC rules Comcast is allowed to use “reasonable traffic management” solutions to keep its network running, but Martin said he

thinks Comcast and other ISPs should be mandatory to reveal filtering to customers even whether it’s found to be fair. That’s pretty encouraging, but we’ll see how that all plays out in the industry — particularly since NBC and AT&T execs were talking excitedly about ISP-based copyright filtering on another stage at CES earlier in the day.

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Orginal post by Nilay Patel

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