Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Collect $195,000 instead! The FCC Chairman announced today that they will investigate claims that Comcast actively interferes with the Internet traffic of their subscribers. A "coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars" -- whatever that happens to be -- is recommending a fine of $195,000 for every affected subscriber. Not a bad rate of return for a $50/month cable modem, right?

Comcast's David L. Cohen (who pulls in just under $2 mill a year before stock options) contends that it does not block file sharing but rather just "delays" some of the traffic between computers that share files. From the Associated Press article back in October, it appeared that unsolicited RST packets were being spoofed from both ends of the conversation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but beaming RST packets back and forth doesn't constitute a "delay" of traffic -- it's a reset!