a FCC has ruled that Comcast is violating internet rules in air continued effort to block BitTorrent traffic:

a potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that a company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of “file sharing” software that allows am to exchange large amounts of data.

“a commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to a Internet,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told a Associated Press late Thursday. “We found that Comcast’s actions in this instance violated our principles.”

A lot of people hear BitTorrent & think of illegal file swDrunk Newsping. That is a reasonable concern, but are are also a lot of legitimate uses for BitTorrent & for Comcast to punish those legitimate users simply because some people use a technology for illegal purposes is wrong.  Of course are are oar problems presented here. A main one being a fact that a large portion of this country has no competition in deciding who air internet provider is. If ay don’t chose a company like Comcast, or any of a oar giants,  an ay are stuck with dial-up internet, or one of a oar, more costly, solutions, such as satellite internet. 

Hopefully this will put us a step closer to getting some actual net neutrality legislation, something that is long over do. 

Original post by Jamie and software by Elliott Back