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"Looks like Cox Communications is following in the footsteps of Comcast, having been found to be interfering with file-sharing by blocking its customers' Internet connections.  A study based on research by The Associated Press and Krishna Gummadi at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems found that about 54% of Cox users were blocked while using file-sharing services.  About 62% of Comcast users were blocked as well.  \nWill this research get Cox in the same legal trouble as Comcast has found itself in, thanks to a similar study reported on a few months back?  The issue here is of course heavily tied in with net-neutrality, and more specifically, peer-to-peer sharing sites like BitTorrent that seem to be a major focus when it comes to institutionalized Internet connection blocking.  \nWhat's more, is that other ISPs have come forward, admitting to blocking Internet connections for users, claiming  such blockage as a necessary tactic for maintaining connection speeds and bandwidth allocation.  These issues have caught the eye of the FCC, and eventually led Comcast to state that it would cease with selective blocking based on file-sharing users.  \nNevertheless, this particular study puts a dent in Comcast and Cox's proclaimed necessity to monitor and modify traffic, as the study found that the Internet was being blocked for some, regardless of time of day or periods of high traffic congestion.  Such findings could spell even more trouble, which puts the pressure on ISPs as well as legislative officials that must deal with the legal questions such activity brings up."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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