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F.C.C. Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage
- zandorg 18y agoNot technically 'Web' usage - more Internet usage. I thought that distinction worth pointing out. I doubt anyone's going to court over a multi-megabyte webpage...
- mdasen 18y agoI'm not trying to be a downer or anything, but what the FCC did might have been a lot more narrow than what everyone in our community is advertising. The vote didn't say that companies can't throttle traffic. It was against Comcast's truly evil reset packets - basically, against Comcast's forged traffic. It is a very good thing that the FCC has taken a stand against ISPs forging traffic to disrupt people's internet connection. However, I would caution against statements like the NYTimes article has saying that the FCC has come out against "equipment that slowed - but did not completely block - file transfers using BitTorrent". This wasn't mere traffic shaping or throttling in the Comcast case.