Senators call for congressional hearings on ISP content blocking
 

ISP's had previously stated during the Net Neutrality debate that they would never attempt to control access to contnet. Then Comcast placed heavy restrictions on Bit Torrent usage. Some members of Congress are alarmed.

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Bit Torrent was just the low hanging fruit. How long before the first ISP places obstacles between surfers and adult websites?


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This is seriously fucked up... The two isps who deserve 95 % of my market are my two biggest competitor too.

Against idea, hate torrents. Fuck hate catch 22 issues.

Though spamming is illegal online activity and doesnt go against net nuetrality does it? Can we not lump torrents into same can. They are primarly used and trasmit illegal material. Then create some sort of way to white lable non illegal usage responsible torrents.

This is gonna be a real problem, IMHO.

White listing even now when torrents are fairly new would be a huge project. Anyone who wanted to run torrents would have to submit requests to every ISP. That isn't going to work.

Black listing select trackers as they find them would be easier, but technology always wins and the pirates are constantly on top of that.

This is just going to get more difficult as torrents blend into the internet. Joost, Vuze, Bablegum, Zattoo, etc... use torrents to serve out their video. Many companies are looking towards this as an answer to their video bandwidth issues.

Good, I hope this makes them put the law on the books.