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"It looks like the FCC's investigation into Comcast's questionable traffic management is turning up a number of interesting details, the latest of which comes from AT&amp;amp;T's Robert Quinn, who told FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell that, \"use of a P2P file sharing application would constitute a material breach of contract for which the user's service could be terminated.\" Quinn was apparently quick to add, however, that AT&amp;amp;T hasn't yet kicked anyone off the network for using P2P. Still, Commissioner McDowell apparently intends to use AT&amp;amp;T's statement to argue against the FCC's forthcoming order that contends Comcast secretly downgraded P2P traffic, saying that Comcast's throttling of traffic isn't as bad as AT&amp;amp;T blocking it all together. The merits of that argument aside, as TechDirt points out, given that AT&amp;amp;T's beef with P2P is that it makes use of \"continuous (rather than bursty) transmissions at high data rates,\" their position does open up a number of interesting questions about streaming apps like Pandora, which are similarly data-intensive but, last we checked, still working just fine on AT&amp;amp;T's network.[Via Tech Dirt]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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