Manyak

Actually the two spellings are interchangeable everywhere except with the term "Fibre Channel". Why? I have no idea. But even the American industry spells it like that.

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pauldovi

How are they going to "win there way out of court"? A civic suit would be far more effective than anything the FCC can do. I wasn't aware the FCC had control over patents?

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Malachor

Comcast against the average consumer, who would win?
FCC basically has a check through of what patents go through and what not, its on "FCC Fridays" at engadget.
Without them anyone can abuse the system, I respect your views on why the FCC shouldn't be in existence.

lattyware

I agree (for once) with Pauldovi here - These companies are not getting the true punishment they deserve for stuff like this.

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pauldovi

It doesn't matter how large Comcast is. The biggest strength Comcast has is in Federal buracracies where it can lobby and take advantage of inherent government corruption. Remove those buracracies and remove their (Comcast's) strength.

Now think about this again:

FCC "investigates" Comcast and decides in house what it should do.

A group of people sues Comcast in a civil court and a jury of "average consumers" rule.

FCC protects Comcast, not you. Or as Milton Friedman put it, "Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

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stargate125645

Good. As much as I don't care if such filters are in place since the vast majority of traffic using such software is illegal, Comcast lied and should therefore be punished.

corky dorkelson

My wife just signed up for Comcast today, do you think they will lighten up on some of the restriction due to the legal woes? How is comcast for online gaming? (our old dsl actually worked great).

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Turnoz

wait why would you have done that if your dsl worked great and comcast currently is getting screwed by the FCC for their practices and is considered really crappy?

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pauldovi

Unlikely. Comcast's performance varries depending upon what service you bought, your location, and the time of day. Residents of Virginia seem to be blessed with the fastest internet in the US.

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