Comcast BT Blocking Cloud May Have Silver Lining

While no one is happy about the problems with the strangulation of BitTorrent and all other P2P software, it seems that the problem just might have a silver lining. The problem has provoked many to complain, and in true political fashion, a few intelligent Congressional people have seen the way to help their upcoming runs for re-election. Oh, it also might help some people in the electorate.

New legislation is being sponsored to give specificity to the term ‘net neutrality’ and ensure it happens. The providers of service have tried to show this as a ’solution in search of a problem’ but now are failing miserably with the information about Comcast coming to light. How far behind can little tales of similar behavior by other large providers be?

The Senate seems to be more on top of this than the House, as Senators Inouye (Dem from Hawaii), Byron Dorgan (Dem from North Dakota), and Olympia Snowe (Rep from Maine) are the ones moving forward on this. (Just when you were sure that these people only wasted the space they take up)

A much larger number of elected officials are now jumping on this bandwagon, as it seems to be picking up speed as it rolls on. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Patrick Leahy have all gone on record as being for this neutrality focus and legislation. This is one of those things where a letter to your Congresspersons would be in order, as there is no downside to this, except that the representatives will not be able to line their pockets with big ‘tips’ from AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and the like.

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Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, net neutrality, BitTorrent, P2P  [/tags]