Macworld is doing an excellent series of articles on Net Neutrality(keeping the internet free from filtering and blocking).
Its a three part series Ive included links to the first two below and will post the last part when they post it. They are focused toward the Mac a little at times but they are a good read and they still apply to Linux and Windows as well.
On a related note My ISP, Charter, called me about a spike in my bandwidth usage over the last month ( I just love the new iTunes movie rentals ) warning that if it continued any traffic over a set bandwidth limit would be throttled. I told them the second I noticed any change in my service I would be switching ISPs.
Bob from what I hear it depends on where you live. The oversubscribe more in the big cities and are doing most of the filtering on those overloaded networks. If you live away from the city your network most likely is not as crowded and therefore not being filtered as much
The cat and mouse game goes on, Bit Torrent users, the group that is involved here, now have found a way out with developers launching "Comcast Busting Encryption"to bypass The BitTorrent Interfering techniques. Some applaud the French now that like to ban these users all together: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-devs-introduce-comcast-busting-encryption-080215/
“The bill squarely addresses the issue of the enormous market power of the telephone and cable companies as the providers of 98 percent of the broadband service in the country,” said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge. “The bill restores the principle of nondiscrimination that allowed the Internet to flourish in the dial-up era, making certain that the same freedom and innovation will flourish in the broadband era without burdensome regulation.”
While Im all for Throttling Pirated content, the problem with allowing ISPs to do so is if we allow them to manage anything there will always be that question of what are the limits of what they are allowed to mess with. Net neutrality Needs to be all or Nothing and wee need it badly or we will be seeing a very dim future for the internet.
The act of copying copyrighted material is illegal. The actions taken by Comcast is equally illegal.
I guess Comcast still has to learn that 2 wrongs don’t make 1 right.
) warning that if it continued any traffic over a set bandwidth limit would be throttled. I told them the second I noticed any change in my service I would be switching ISPs.