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from: Information Week

With Comcast Under Fire, Vuze Enjoys Growth Surge

From InformationWeek, January 18, 2008
By Richard Martin

While controversy swirls around the struggle between traditional big-pipe entertainment providers to the home — specifically the cable carriers and namely Comcast, the nation’s largest cable TV service — and providers of online peer-to-peer content services, particularly BitTorrent, the market for online movies and other forms of content continues to grow apace.

from: Broadband Reports

Verizon, Industry Comment On Time Warner Cable Plans
Verizon taunts MSO, analysts think low caps are a ripoff
03:10PM Monday Jan 21 2008 by Karl

As we were the first to report last week, Time Warner Cable will be testing overage charges in one of the company's Texas markets. We've noted that Charter is also exploring metered bandwidth, and Business Week confirms that Comcast and Cox are as well. In the Business Week report, Verizon takes aim at the cable industry, suggesting that Time Warner Cable is interested in the plans because they lack bandwidth:

from: Slate

Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? A baffling proposal to filter the Internet.
By Tim Wu
Posted Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008, at 10:15 AM ET

Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries for potential violations of U.S. intellectual property laws. The prospect of AT&T, already accused of spying on our telephone calls, now scanning every e-mail and download for outlawed content is way too totalitarian for my tastes. But the bizarre twist is that the proposal is such a bad idea that it would be not just a disservice to the public but probably a disaster for AT&T itself. If I were a shareholder, I'd want to know one thing: Has AT&T, after 122 years in business, simply lost its mind?

from: Boing Boing

Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's The Hugh Thompson Show
Posted by Joel Johnson, January 21, 2008 5:23 AM

from: Web Pro News

AT&T Concessions Prove Meaningless

January 10, 2008
By Jason Lee Miller

Remember how after AT&T made Net Neutrality concessions to get their merger with BellSouth approved, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was so quick to remind everybody that the FCC had no teeth to enforce that? Well, the lack of teeth is coming back to bite us.

from: Broadcasting and Cable

Comcast Pledges Cooperation with FCC on Broadband Service
Executive VP Cohen: Cable Operator Will Answer Any Federal Communications Commission Questions on Service Policies
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/9/2008 12:23:00 PM

Comcast said Wednesday that it is ready to work with the Federal Communications Commission on any questions it has about the company's broadband service.

from: NY Times

January 8, 2008, 7:07 pm
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

By Brad Stone

For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.

from: NY Times

January 9, 2008
F.C.C. to Look at Complaints Comcast Interferes With Net
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, the commission’s chairman, Kevin J. Martin, said Tuesday.

from: CNET

Net neutrality may not resolve Comcast vs. BitTorrent