and that stems from an action taken under the previous fcc chairman kevin martin. he essentially ordered comcast to stop blocking traffic, online peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic a service called bittorrent. in that case, comcast said it was blocking bittorrent traffic because it was very bandwidth intensive and slowing down the network for everybody else. but a lot of people feel that they were slowing down -- or blocking bittorrent traffic because they saw online file-sharing as a way to trade video on the internet. and that comcast in turn saw it a threat to its core business. so you've got that playing out because comcast essentially challenged that order in court. and at oral arguments a few weeks ago here in washington, the judges essentially really cast doubt on the fcc's authority to mandate net neutrality rules and so that's sort of the backdrop of what's happening now because this concern becomes even bigger when you talk about it in the context of the comcast/nbc merger because now you're talking about allowing comcast which owns the pipes to own the co

and that stems from an action taken under the previous fcc chairman kevin martin. he essentially ordered in comcast to stop blocking traffic on-line peer-to-peer sharing traffic, a service called bittorrent, and in that case comcast said it was blocking and bittorrent traffic because it was very intensive traffic and eating up the band with and slowing down the networks but a lot of people feel that they were slowing down or blocking bittorrent traffic because they saw while sharing as a training video on the internet and comcast saw that as a threat to its core business. so you've got that plank out because comcast challenged that order in court and at oral arguments of a few weeks ago in washington the judges essentially really cast down on the fcc authority to mandate that neutrality rules so that as a backdrop to was happening now because the concern becomes even bigger when you talk about in the context of the comcast and vc merger because you are allowing comcast which owns the pipe to on the content as well to nbc and the concern is what they do which would