Re: Winners and Losers

eee_eff — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:47:11 -0000

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin recently asked, “Would you be OK with the post office opening your mail, deciding they didn’t want to bother delivering it, and hiding that fact by sending it back to you stamped ‘address unknown – return to sender’?”

Hance, that's a fair question, I presume that you believe the post office should be able to do that?

Martin sided with the commission’s two Democrats to slam Comcast for managing its broadband network like a traffic cop who works hard to prevent gridlock.

But again you ignore two critical aspects:

(1) that Comcast particularly targeted one protocol (bit-torrent) irrespective of the bandwidth involved. It did not for example target streaming video, even that had more of an issue for network protocols.
and

(2) Comcast lied, commiting FRAUD repeatedly. It's on FAQS said that IT DID NOT INTERFERE WITH BIT TORRENT UPLAODS OR DOWNLOADS. It did, in fact, interfere with both.

Are you OK with companies commiting fraud, and if you are not OK with that, shouldn't Comcast be punished?

Re: Winners and Losers

mwendy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:28:38 -0000

The decision/order will likely fail because of APA infirmities, etc. Yet the reflexive action - the FCC's need to jettison markets and their underlying incentitve system - remains highly troubling.

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