The cable TV giant came under fire recently when
it slowed a "peer-to-peer" transmission of the King James Bible sent as
a test by an Associated Press reporter.
At two special hearings held by the Federal
Communications Commission — one at Harvard and another last week at
Stanford — the company was excoriated for delaying peer-to-peer traffic.
Peer-to-peer transmissions, which account for
more than half of all Web traffic, enable computers to snatch music,
data and video files from other computers. To assemble one file, a
peer-to-peer service can tap into dozens, or even hundreds, of
computers around the world.
Comcast (CMCSA),
which has 13 million online customers, has been taking a low profile.
Executives Tony Werner, Comcast's chief technology officer, and Mitch
Bowling, senior vice president of online service, agreed to discuss the
incident with USA TODAY.
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