FCC Rules Comcast Broke the Law in BitTorrent Flap
Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to rule that “Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful,” CNET News reports; the ruling makes this the first time that any U.S. provider has ever been found to violate Net neutrality rules:
“The Federal Communications Commission handed Comcast a cease-and-desist order and required the company to disclose to subscribers in the future how it plans to manage traffic. Comcast had said that its measures to slow BitTorrent transfers, which it voluntarily ended in March, were necessary to prevent its network from being overrun.”
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