The Pipes Get a Big Win in the Courts
Comcast won Round 2 of its battle with the Federal Communications Commission this morning when the DC Circuit Court ruled that the FCC “has failed to tie its assertion of ancillary authority over Comcast’s Internet service to any ‘statutorily mandated responsibility’”. Thus, the court granted Comcast’s 2008 appeal of the FCC’s order to stop throttling-back file sharing traffic.
So much for net neutrality.
I’m sure there’ll be Round 3 sometime soon. TechCrunch ponders the FCC’s possible next move. The WSJ Digits blog tells us which of the playahs — and it’s not just Comcast — in this case are smiling and lighting up victory cigars.
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