Net Neutrality Bill Hits Canada, Bell Sued for BitTorrent Throttling
Date : 2008 05 31 Category : Web News
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New Democratic Party delivers on its promise to "prevent large ISPs from interfering with the free flow of information over the internet," coinciding with word that Bell Canada faces class action lawsuit for BitTorrent throttling.
A network neutrality rally was held this past Tuesday to both garner support for the effort as well as to announce the New Democratic Party's intention to submit a private member's bill to ensure that ISPs don't interfere with the "free flow of information over the internet."
Some 300 protestors attended the rally and made clear their opposition to efforts by Bell Canada Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., Canada's two largest ISPs, among others, to engage in "traffic shaping" or "throttling" of P2P and file-sharing applications like BitTorrent.