FCC to fine Comcast for blocking Bit Torrent

This is HUGE News!

The Federal Communications Commission is on the verge of finding Comcast Corp. violated federal policy by hampering the ability of customers to share large files online, a decision that would set a precedent over how much control phone and cable companies have over how consumers use the Internet.

Source (http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/fcc-to-fine-comcast-for-blocki.html)

There will be punishment of some sort but NO monetary penalty.

I've read two different accounts of this. One as in the link and the other was because Comcast lied to them as to whether the did it or not.

Well maybe this will serve as a warning to ISP's about blocking file transfers and make them open up the bandwidth a little rather than throttling it back like they do.