[Infowarrior] - Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with BitTorrent

[Richard Forno]

Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with BitTorrent
Posted by Chris Soghoian
October 25, 2007 11:06 AM PDT

While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave,
another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in
and regulate.

On Tuesday, I discussed the issue of Comcast's anti-BitTorrent "network
management" with Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., who is a strong supporter of
consumer rights and has led the battle to undo the damage caused by the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.

He was named Politician of the Year for 2006 by Library Journal, largely due
to his efforts to protect the fair-use doctrine and expand Internet
technologies to rural areas.

"Comcast has made a major mistake in attempting to hinder peer-to-peer file
sharing as an aspect of its network management," Boucher said. "The
inability of customers to (share files) significantly diminishes their
ability to utilize the Internet for one of its most important applications,
which is user-to-user content." He also noted that "file sharing is already
being used for a wide variety of perfectly lawful and appropriate
applications."

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