The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected this week to announce that Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) violated federal policy when it actively interfered with the file-sharing traffic of some of its broadband customers, agency officials told the Wall Street Journal. Comcast will not be financially penalized, but will be ordered to stop blocking or slowing its subscribers' traffic, and make better disclosures of its network management practices. Comcast was found to have been blocking some subscribers' file transfers using the BitTorrent protocol; the FCC later began an investigation and held public hearings on the issue.http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/07/28/wsj:-fcc-punish-comcast-file-sharing-interference
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