Comments on: Week in review: Social media open for business

The formation of a group to promote universal standards for social-network apps stood out amid a slew of headlines this week about companies merging, collaborating, or restructuring.
(By CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers)

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Comcast used BitTorrent Inc. like a Tool

Just by way of re-introduction if necessary, I?m probably a key figure as to why we?re all talking about Network Neutrality again. I was having a problem uploading on Gnutella in early 2007. I tracked it down to Comcast using Sandvine-injected RST packets and documented it. Blog stories led to press stories which led to independent confirmation. And here we are today.

Today Comcast and BitTorrent seems to have solved world hunger ? and I?d love nothing more than to be optimistic about it. But I cannot be. As they say on Slashdot ? show video, or it didn?t happen. This deal is treachery, relies on how much we can trust the word of Comcast, and leaves the public interests out in the cold.

I think it?s strange that anyone believes a word that Comcast says. This is the Comcast that:

1. Told the government that they would not degrade traffic in order to convince officials that network neutrality regulations were not needed.

2. Started degrading P2P traffic the very next year, and failed to tell anyone what they were doing.

3. Used a system that utilized forgery, and successfully placed blame on the other peer instead of Comcast.

4. Denied it when caught.

5. Then changed their story when the denials were not believed, but still never came out and said what they were doing.

6. Then they justified their actions by throwing their other Cable-Internet brothers and sisters under the bus with their ?they do it too!? defense.

7. Then stealthily changed the AUP days before an FCC filing where they referred to the new provisions.

8. When the changed AUP started getting press attention, they stated that a prominent story on Comcast.net alerted millions of visitors of the change and accused Marvin Ammori of crying wolf. (Google cache proved that nothing alerted users to the changed AUP until the day after the press started asking questions.)

9. Then they packed the Harvard FCC hearing.

This company has not demonstrated that you can trust its promises, nor can you believe its assertions. Comcast just used BitTorrent Inc. as a tool to try and defang the FCC.

BitTorrent Inc. is a content provider. Vuze, who actually DID make a complaint and petition to the FCC, is a competitor. Neither BitTorrent, Vuze, nor Comcast represents the interests of 12 million Comcast users nor the The Internet Society nor the public. And this middle-of-the-night deal was made without their input.

Nothing has changed. The RST interference continues. It was a wrongful act. BitTorrent Inc. has no right making a deal with Comcast allowing it to continue to commit wrongful acts until it finally decides it is ready to stop. The correct relief is to stop the interference immediately and to FULLY DISCLOSE what it did and to accept responsibility for those actions. (Even today, Comcast?s Policy VP refused to answer questions about the interference.)

Their word is worthless. Until the interference stops, I have no reason to believe it will. Until either meaningful competition returns to broadband, or until sufficient government regulation enforces Network Neutrality, we have no reason to think that this agreement will last through the night.

Robb Topolski

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Really?

Wow, you're my hero. Not.

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Week in review: More Vista FUD

"So do all roads lead to Vista?" Of course they do, as the numbers show (Microsoft Windows Vista's market share has been constantly rising in a ratio of around 1%/month for more than 1 year already) and even the biased (because we can see the level of bias most users show against Microsoft in their comments here - certainly enough to make them vote anything against Microsoft even if it goes against reality) pole confirms that (most people are merely - and ignorantly, I might add - holding out as long as they can - not long, I say, LOL).

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Take Facts:
http://www.slideshare.net/canarus/stop-internet-we-need-another-network

Have Fun and Learn to kill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIzktgfmc6Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViNy00yuMFU&feature=related

Welcome to Internet !!!

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Take Facts:
http://www.slideshare.net/canarus/stop-internet-we-need-another-network

Have Fun and Learn to kill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIzktgfmc6Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViNy00yuMFU&feature=related

Welcome to Internet !!!