RCN: Sorry - We Will Stop Doing That (P2P control)

   

Quietly, RCN a US Cable ISP (Boston, Chicago, DC, NYC, Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia) settled a class action lawsuit for controlling P2P traffic (a la' Comcast) between August '03 to July '09. They will not do it anymore, at least until November '10. More details here. The plaintiff gets $3.000 and the lawyer gets $520,000.

Note that this was signed few days ago, well after Comcast won the appeal against the FCC.

RCN is a long-time Sandvine customer (as noted in Sandvine's prospectus from Oct '06). They were probably using the same traffic management technique used by Comcast thus exposing the traffic management process to the end-users - see "DPI Deployments - Part5: North American Cable - The Net Neutrality Trigger" - here.