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Broadcasters, wireless industry at impasse over spectrum plan
The Federal Communications Commission has canceled
Continue reading »UK ISP Increases Connections Speeds, Will Throttle P2P
BT network upgrades will mean much faster broadband speeds, but new traffic management equipment will restrict P2P bandwidth. UK ISP BT has launched a new Infinity broadband service that will give residential customers a 40Mbps download speed, and up to a 10Mbps upload speed. The current highest residential speed service it offers is 20Mbps.
Continue reading »Premiere in FileSharing World: First Magnet-Only Torrent Index!
The decision of popular bittorrent service The Pirate Bay to adopt the idea of including magnet links on their site has recently become the main subject of debate among the IT community. With The Pirate Bay having made the first step in this direction, various BitTorrent clients followed through and started to add support for these types of links as well; some even took the concept to the next level and introduced Internet’s first “magnet-only” torrent index. The Pirate Bay’s metamorphosis began last November, when the website announced the closing down of its tracker and the integration of magnet links.
Continue reading »FCC‘s Authority in Comcast Case Questioned
Last week we informed you about a turn of events in the dispute between the FCC and Comcast, (which in December agreed to pay $16 million damage compensation to the customers it had throttled their bandwidth) with the latter challenging the FCC’s right to investigate if BitTorrent traffic was blocked on the network. According to RttNews, Saturday U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday questioned the Federal Communications Commission or FCC's authority to penalize Comcast Corp for interfering with p2p (peer-to-peer) traffic.
Continue reading »Comcast to Pay $16 million for BitTorrent Throttling
Comcast, the ISP that gained a bad rap when last year it was accused a number of times of interfering with the traffic of p2p users and pledged good behavior in January 2009, settled its class-action lawsuit yesterday. The company agreed to pay $16 million (minus $3 million in fees) damage compensation to those customers who had their bandwidth throttled. Comcast’s statement came shortly after: “We are pleased to have reached a settlement in these consolidated class action lawsuits.
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