Comcast's FCC Filing Called Unfair, Not Good Enough

Shoemaker brings us a follow-up to Comcast's recent defense of its traffic management procedures. The companies involved in the original FCC investigation are not satisfied with Comcast's response. From Ars Technica: "Comcast made an aggressive defense of its policies, claiming that it only resets P2P uploads made during peak times and when no download is also in progress. Free Press, BitTorrent, and Vuze all say that's not good enough. In a conference call, Vuze's general counsel Jay Monahan drew the starkest analogy. What Comcast is really doing, he said, wasn't at all comparable to limiting the number of cars that enter a highway. Instead, it was more like a horse race where the cable company owns one of the horses and the racetrack itself. By slowing down the horse of a competitor like Vuze, even for a few seconds, Comcast makes it harder for that horse to compete. 'Which horse would you bet on in a race like that?' asked Monahan."

Which horse?

[ShaunC]

'Which horse would you bet on in a race like that?'

Well, probably not this horse [fastgate.net].

You are a Moon Master!

[milsoRgen]

My $0.02: deregulate, increase investment in infrastructure and leave it to the law enforcement agencies to deal with potential matters of criminal activity online. then we have an internet we can all enjoy!

Phew

[Nero Nimbus]

For a minute there, I thought we were going to get yet another car analogy.

Re:Phew

[wjhoffman1983]

It's more like a series of racetracks...

No room P2P huh!

[neonmonk]

Oh, no room for P2P, huh?

Fine. I'll go build my own telecom infrastructure with blackjack.. and hookers.

In fact, forget the infrastructure and the blackjack... Eh, screw the whole thing.

Needs more car analogies.

[Lordfly]

You see, the internet is like a car, and Comcast is like the clutch. If you stick a bologna sandwich in the clutch, obviously you need more cup holders, like Bit Torrent and Vuze.

That's why we need net neutrality!

Repeat Programming

[Doc Ruby]

Funny, when I mail an "unfair, not good enough" check for my Comcast bill, they just shut me down.

Re:Repeat Programming

[calebt3]

The post office dropped your packet. Or did it send you a fake cancellation of service notice to both of you?

but, it's Premium!

[AmishElvis]

"Premium 56K Dial Up Internet Access"

Re:Bad analogy.

[kaizokuace]

if you want a car analogy, its probably something like that freeway scene in one of them matrices movies. Packets, err...cars blowing up all over the place. And the bad guys catching up to the good guys. And lots of explosions and cgi.

Re:Bad analogy.

[somersault]

Nope, I didn't get it. If only I had some method of searching through large quantities of information quickly, trying to match a certain word or phrase.. or perhaps some large collection of knowledge indexed in an orderly fashion that I could lookup quick (or as the Hawaiians say, 'wiki') for the name Sisyphus.. oh well, guess neither I nor anyone else will get this joke.