WASHINGTON: A federal court today said the FCC did not have the authority to regulate network management. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 3-0 in favor of Comcast’s challenge of an FCC order prohibiting it from blocking high bitrate traffic. Comcast was discovered throttling BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic in 2007. Two consumer lobbies in D.C. filed complaints with the FCC, which ultimately forced Comcast to open its tubes.
Does this mean we’ll all likely have to indirectly pay for streaming video in the future?