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[ NNSquad ] Traffic shaping law proposed in US
Traffic shaping law proposed in US 17/03/2008 - by CommsDay At least one influential US lawmaker has proposed adding a traffic shaping ban to current antitrust law, signaling Congress could act in response to the Comcast P2P scandal no matter how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceeds. The House Judiciary Committee chairman, John Conyers, says that reports to the effect that Comcast secretly slowed â and in some cases killed â BitTorrent traffic demonstrate âthe open architecture of the Internet is under siege. The problem is that many of the innovations we've enjoyed on the Internet would have never occurred under this proposed regime.â Cont.: http://tinyurl.com/yvqz6t -- Conyer's Matter Of Antitrust 03/14/08 | Multichannel News House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has signaled renewed interest in using antitrust law to protect free speech and market competition on the Internet. Cont.: http://tinyurl.com/23cu4s ------