FCC Tackles Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling

This is just the latest on the on-again, off-again net neutrality issue.

Streaming media in general suffers significant performance downgrades when slowed. And filtering can block downloads altogether. Since the content being streamed is bandwidth-demanding video, delays and poor performance are obvious to end users.

But instead of diminishing interest in BitTorrent delivered content, it appears that the huge customer base has become enraged, taking to the Web, politicians and to the FCC in search of the alleged practice by Comcast and elsewhere.

BitTorrent Inc. www.bittorrent.com
Comcast Corp. www.comcast.com
Federal Communications Commission www.fcc.gov