Comcast’s new policies of file sharing
2008-03-28 16:27:47 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Business News)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (A P): CNN reported that Comcast Corp. announced on Thursday that it is going to treat all kinds of traffic on the Internet equally. The corporation was under investigation to hamper online fire-sharing by the subscribers.
Since an investigation by the Associated Press confirmed in October the interference with traffic of file-sharing, Comcast has vigorously been defending the practices, the most recent being in February at a hearing of Federal Communications Commission. Comcast was also accused of oppressing the delivery of the Internet video. According to the Comcast, the practices that it adopted were essential for keeping file-sharing traffic from the overwhelming lines of local cable, where the neighbors tend to share capacities with each other.
On Thursday, the company said that it will manage the capacity without doing any favor to any particular kind of traffic by the end of this year. “This means that we will have to rapidly reconfigure our network management systems, but the outcome will be a traffic management technique that is more appropriate for today’s emerging Internet trends,” Comcast’s chief technology officer, Tony Werner, said in a statement. On Thursday, he said that the company is going to publish a new technique taking into account the feedback from the community of the Internet.
Peer-to-peer file sharing “has matured as an enabler for legal content distribution,” said Werner, “So we need to have an architecture that can support it with techniques that work over all networks.” The commissioners of FCC indicate that they are taking the issue with a serious mindset, and the chairman of the commission, Kevin Martin, has also voiced his objections towards secret management of traffic.
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