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...Internet activities get priority has several worrying implications. It could lead to anti-competitive behavior by ISPs, many of which also provide services that compete with new Internet tools. For example, Comcast has been widely accused of slowing the traffic of Vonage, an Internet phone service that competes with Comcast??s own similar service. (The two companies have since agreed to cooperate.) If ISPs are allowed to discriminate against content providers, they will do so in their own interests—if Comcast ever wanted to launch its own video streaming site, it could slow down YouTube...
...more or less a neutral network,” he added that some practices—such as ESPN 360, which is only made available through certain Internet service providers—make the Internet less neutral. Other examples of network regulation in violation of net neutrality include Comcast??s alleged restriction of uploads for peer-to-peer sharing applications such as BitTorrent, which sparked an FCC hearing at the Law School last February. The Berkman Center sponsored a petition that encouraged the FCC to oppose Internet service providers that discriminated by content. But Palfrey said that...
...room only audience, were triggered by recent alleged abuses to net neutrality—the idea that Internet providers should not be able to block consumers’ access to Internet resources.“The Internet is as much mine and yours as it is AT&T and Comcast??s,” said Representative Edward J. Markey, a Democrat from Malden, Mass. who recently introduced a bill in the House to preserve net neutrality.Commissioners said that these recent allegations may violate citizens’ fundamental right to freedom of communication.“It?...
...mail traffic over peer-to-peer file sharing. Another reason for sidestepping end-to-end, however, has certain technophiles up in arms: money. Some Internet providers, such as Comcast, offer new Internet telephony services. But a traditional phone conversation effectively gets its own dedicated pair of wires. So if Comcast??s telephone service is going to compete, it’s going to need to give its users equally good guarantees on their network, ahead of ordinary Internet traffic.Other breaches of end-to-end are in the works as well. Some Internet providers, struggling in competitive and costly...
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