Is Your ISP Making Video Downloading Harder?

The article reports on the initiative of open online platforms and rite sharing services to bar Internet service providers (ISPs) from targeting peer-to-peer file sharing applications such as BitTorrent by limiting the amount of bandwidth accessible to those applications. Comcast stated that it had to take action to ensure that a handful of customers could not grab up more than their fair share of network resources, slowing other users' connections. Another company, Vuze, is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to prevent ISPs from interfering with peer-to-peer file sharing traffic.