Neutrality advocates ask Appellate Court to uphold FCC's Comcast ruling 10/07/2009

A group of leading academics have asked an appellate court to uphold the Federal Communications Commission's decision to sanction Comcast for violating net neutrality principles by interfering with peer-to-peer traffic.

A ruling in favor of Comcast could "pose significant threats to the Internet as we have always known it," five law professors argue in a brief filed this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Signatories include Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, and Columbia Law's Tim Wu, who is credited with coining the term "net neutrality..."