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posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 14 2016, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the net-for-all dept.

In a bit of good news for the Obama administration (and most Americans), the U.S. D.C Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FCC's Open Internet Order rules:

High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled, a decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband providers and greater protections for web users.

The court's decision upholds the F.C.C. on the declaration of broadband as a utility, the most significant aspect of the rules. That has broad-reaching implications for web and telecommunications companies and signals a shift in the government's view of broadband as a service that should be equally accessible to all Americans, rather than a luxury that does not need close government supervision.

The court's opinion can be found here.

takyon: Also at Tom's Hardware. Alternate link for the Appeals Court decision.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @09:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @09:37PM (#360183)

    Zero rating is great stuff because when some kind of stuff is zero rated then you can make all your stuff look like zero rated stuff so all your stuff is zero rated stuff.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @06:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @06:41AM (#360402)

    Only of you pay a decidedly non-zero sum to the Powers That Be, which is the whole point of the arrangement.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @07:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @07:58AM (#360422)

      No you don't understand. You get zero rated content for free. Once you can get anything for free then you can leverage zero rating to get everything for free. You just have to encode all your content to make it look like zero rated content.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:34AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:34AM (#360436)

        It is the content origin that determines if it is zero-rated, not the type of content. Good luck "encoding" your content onto the officially permitted servers.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @10:06AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @10:06AM (#360456)

          No. It's a common misconception, but zero rating does not necessarily depend on origin. For example AT&T zero rates HTTP requests for "att.com" domains regardless of IP, and it's possible to forge headers to connect to an arbitrary server instead. For example T-Mobile zero rates audio by looking at the content because radio sites stream audio from various cloud providers, and it's possible to stream audio from an arbitrary server instead. For example Verizon zero rates DNS queries, and it's possible to encapsulate data in DNS to tunnel through an arbitrary server instead. See at least three mobile carriers do zero rating based on content and not origin.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:30PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:30PM (#360652)

            > For example AT&T zero rates HTTP requests for "att.com" domains regardless of IP,

            citation required

            and even if it is true, that's a loophole that can't last in the face of any significant exploitation