The Internet

It is one of the first major business of history neutrality of the net. But if one of his episodes ended some days ago, battle is far from being ended.

Affair goes back up in 2007. In February, Robb Topolski, taken out a subscription by Comcast, first American cable television company, realises that there are interferences in the downloadings p2p. After some researches, that it comes from the operator who uses application pour to send wrong packets TCP with the flag RST (reset) which re-initializes, and therefore breaks connection. Fact is proved and validated by many organisms (among which l ), and strongly relieved by the press during summer, 2007, which accuses entirely Comcast of filtering exchanges of contents using BitTorrent. A protocol which allows exchanges as well p2p (for example of distribution Linux) as the use of some services VOD. But the operator disclaims. One of the doors-words of Comcast, Charlie Douglas, explains that the society does not watch actively what download its subscribers, but that she reserves the right to cut service to the clients who fool network by using too much bandwidth.

In October, Associated Press accomplishes in its turn its own tests, and arrives at the same conclusions: Comcast interferes in the use of BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella. The news agency qualifies then these practices of  more radical example of discrimination of data this day  . Questioned by AP, Charlie Douglas declares this time:  Comcast blocks the access to no application, of which BitTorrent  . But he refrains from defining what the society hears by "access" . A lot to comment while really Comcast does not block access directly, but limits their use considerably.

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On its personal blog, Giuseppe de Martino (Dailymotion and Asic) cost on the definition of the neutrality of the net, and its treatment by the deputies on the occasion of the examination of the law relating to the struggle against the numerical fracture, adopted last week by the Senate.  Some took over manual the body of subject with an angle which had not been willy-nilly seen  , bring back t-il. Neither seen or to be known? Really? Extracts:

It appears desirable that in a law having as objective on one hand to speed up and to enlarge the deployment of networks high debit and very high debit and on the other hand of encourage public initiatives in the field, it is refers to the principles of neutrality and of opening in the competition of these networks in relation to services and applications which they allow to achieve.

To allow to the operators to intervene in the contents of their pipes, it is to give them the possibility of choosing in which contents the consumer can have access. ( ) such evolution of the market would be likely to cancel the positive effects of Internet on the access to information and to culture.

The deployment of networks neutral and opened to competition, on which the service maximum is available, is the best means to optimise investments in the facilities of new generation and to spread their hold at the farthest on the territory to the advantage of the biggest number.