Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday determining Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, this is the first time that a U.S. broadband provider has been found to violate Net neutrality rules, opening the flood gates for others… hooray!Don’t feel sorry for Comcast, after all they were in total denial back in August 2007 facing early allegations that it was filtering BitTorrent traffic. As suspected, it turned out that Comcast really was throttling BitTorrent and the company was forced to concede to the FCC that it blocks only “excessive” traffic
. That also handed competitors like AT&T a perfect opening to say that they don’t throttle peer-to-peer traffic at all – which we know is not 100% accurate.
[Excerpts borrowed from CNET]