{"id":1834,"date":"2008-01-09T14:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2008-01-09T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T20:51:47","slug":"fcc-to-investigate-comcast-bittorrent-filtering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/01\/fcc-to-investigate-comcast-bittorrent-filtering\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC to investigate Comcast BitTorrent filtering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/213966962\/\" >FCC to investigate Comcast BitTorrent filtering<\/a>:<br \/>\nFCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced at CES last night that his agency will be looking into Comcast&#8217;s data-meddling ways. &#8220;Sure, we&#8217;re going to investigate and make sure that no consumer is going to be blocked,&#8221; he said. Per FCC rules Comcast is allowed to use &#8220;reasonable traffic management&#8221; solutions to keep its network running, but Martin said he thinks Comcast and other ISPs should be required to disclose filtering to customers even if it&#8217;s found to be reasonable. That&#8217;s pretty encouraging, but we&#8217;ll see how this all plays out in the industry &#8212; especially since NBC and AT&#38;T execs were talking excitedly about ISP-based copyright filtering on another stage at CES earlier in the day<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/1-9-08-kevin-martin-ces.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-1834];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/1-9-08-kevin-martin-ces.jpg','popup','width=250,height=166,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/1-9-08-kevin-martin-ces-tm.jpg\" height=\"199\" width=\"300\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1-9-08-Kevin-Martin-Ces\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCC to investigate Comcast BitTorrent filtering: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced at CES last night that his agency will be looking into Comcast&#8217;s data-meddling ways. &#8220;Sure, we&#8217;re going to investigate and make sure that no consumer is going to be blocked,&#8221; he said. Per FCC rules Comcast is allowed to use &#8220;reasonable traffic management&#8221; solutions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/01\/fcc-to-investigate-comcast-bittorrent-filtering\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FCC to investigate Comcast BitTorrent filtering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-tA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}