FCC Gives Comcast 30 Days to Comply with Penalties for Throttling BitTorrent

Must detail how it did it, how it plans to stop the practice by the end of the year, and also how it intends to manage network traffic in the future. It was just recently that the FCC found Comcast in violation of the agency's principles for electively targeting and throttling the connection speeds of a single application - BitTorrent - as part of its overall efforts in managing network traffic. "We consider whether Comcast, a provider of broadband Internet access over cable lines, may selectively target and interfere with connections of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications under the facts of this case," reads the FCC's ruling. "Although Comcast asserts that its conduct is necessary to ease network congestion, we conclude that the company&rsquo;s discriminatory and arbitrary practice unduly squelches the dynamic benefits of an open and accessible Internet and does not constitute reasonable network management." The FCC even went so far as to say that Comcast "compounded the harm" to its customers by refusing to divulge it's throttling practices. </img>


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