ComCast settles throttling lawsuit

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[Broni]

Well, this says it all:

Whoever says the legal system in this country is broken, well, you're right. Comcast was caught tampering with its customers' packets two years ago. It bitched and moaned like nobody's business, earning itself no friends. The Federal Communications Commission sanctioned the gigantic corporation in what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Big deal. A class action lawsuit was filed, which was just settled for $16 million. Comcast raked in $34.3 billion in revenue in 2008, meaning that this settlement amounts to four hours of revenue. That's right: four hours. Take that, corporate America!

...and they're throttling again. This time, they got smarter. They don't target any specific program, or group of programs, they choke a whole bandwidth, whenever they want.

[rthompson80819]

I don't understand why Lotus Notes email was included in the suit.  That's not a high bandwidth service.

[Geek-9pm]

I don't understand why Lotus Notes email was included in the suit.  That's not a high bandwidth service.

Depends wheat you are sending. It is not just e-mail.

[BC_Programmer]

I don't understand why Lotus Notes email was included in the suit.  That's not a high bandwidth service.

It probably followed a pattern that made the service throttle it like it did P2P programs.

[rthompson80819]

When I did that post I didn't think it all the way through.  When I was on Notes, 99% of what we sent and received was basic email and report updating.  But that was just us.

I can imagine companies like architect's sending big CAD attachments for comments and changes and using a lot of bandwidth.

[Ironman]

But how much money would each person receive from this lawsuit? It it even worth it? Because Lexmark payed a lot of money for falsely advertising how much each memory each of their flashdrives contained and besides the lawyers and the people who originally sued ever other affected individual wast like given 50 cents, because they had to split the payment.