Legal scholars from Yale, Harvard, and Stanford along with public advocacy groups have filed a network neutrality complaint (PDF) with the Federal Communications Commission against U.S. cable provider Comcast, claiming the company is intentionally degrading network performance and discriminating against customers’ use of the network—specifically, blocking the use of peer-to-peer file sharing applications like BitTorrent and Gnutella. If the complaint moves forward, it could be the first major test of the FCC’s network neutrality principles.
Although these principles are not law, the FCC indicated a strong willingness to enforce them via its regulatory authority shuld it see evidence communications providers were violating them.
