The FCC faces tough questions about its legal authority to penalize Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent. Comcast tells the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the FCC’s network neutrality principles are nothing more than a policy statement and do not carry the weight of rules, regulations or laws and urges the court to remove the black mark against its name.
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three-judge federal panel appeared Jan. 8 to question the Federal
Communications Commission’s legal authority in the 2008
decision that found Comcast guilty of violating the FCC’s network neutrality
principles. Comcast complied with the FCC’s order to stop throttling
peer-to-peer Internet tra…