More Widespread Blocking by ISPs

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Save The Internet.

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Another peer-to-peer software application is warning that many major phone
and cable companies — not just Comcast — may be targeting and blocking
legal Web traffic.

Vuze, maker of a popular P2P video distribution application, released a
preliminary report [.pdf] that sheds light on ISPs’ prevalent practice of
throttling communication between users.

Last fall, the Associated Press exposed Comcast for cutting off access to
legal file-sharing programs. In response to petitions filed by Free Press
and Vuze, the Federal Communications Commission has launched an ongoing
investigation, which has included public hearings at Harvard and Stanford
universities.

Vuze also launched its own investigation, creating a software plug-in to
track network interruptions from reset messages. The rate of interruptions
was so alarming, Vuze said it suggested that “network management
practices that ‘throttle’ internet traffic are widespread.”

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More:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/04/22/more-widespread-blocking-by-
isps/

Vuze Report:
http://cache2.vuze.com/docs/internet_future/First_Results_from_Vuze_Network
_Monitoring_Tool.pdf

- - ferg

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