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Comcast Being Sued over Web Interference
We will have to see what happens with this. Comcast is being sued over web interference according to an AP article on BreitBart. Congress last year or early this year refused to take on Net Neutrality, so now it looks like Comcast subscriber Jon Hart is going to take it on.
Subscriber Jon Hart based his claims on the results of an investigation by the Associated Press published last month that showed Philadelphia-based Comcast actively interferes with attempts some high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online.
Hart’s lead lawyer, Mark N. Todzo of San Francisco, said his client suspected before reading the AP report that Comcast was interfering with his Internet traffic.
“What the AP report did was just confirm to him that it wasn’t just him who was suffering from the problem,” Todzo said. “There was this confluence of events where everyone seemed to reach the same conclusion, which was that Comcast was engaging in this activity.”
Other users claimed they had seen interference with some file-sharing applications. Subsequent tests by the Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed the AP’s tests, which showed that Comcast is causing software on both ends of a file-sharing link to believe the connection has been dropped.
This will be very much a precedent - if it does not get settled out of court – that many ISPs and subscribers will be watching to see what happens.
