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29 Mar, 2007 4:54 pm
... great distributed ISP data questionaire challenge, asked Comcast in Minneapolis what they do with data. The answer: "Comcast does not sell and/or provide any personal ... information about our customers to anyone." Granted that's a lot clearer than the last Comcast response, where a reader got sent to a maze of legalese that a first-year law school ... cough up the IP address of a P2P uploader immediately. It
would be sure great if Comcast Corporate Communications stepped up and dropped 27B the real deal ...
22 Aug, 2008 12:10 am
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday popped Comcast Corporation for ice-picking Internet
service customers that it suspected of watching non-Comcast video. The largest cable operator on Earth sent fake instructions that had ...
program without a schedule and watch it any time, generally with the ability to fast-forward, rewind, or pause the programming." Comcast has
recently placed asignificant emphasis on expanding its VOD business, and its VOD revenues have experienced robust growth. ...
23 Aug, 2007 10:54 am
Anderson v. Comcast Corporation, Nos. 06-2165, 06-2203. Remember Kristian v. Comcast, Corp., 446 F.3d 25 (1st Cir. 2006) (our coverage here), which held that although Comcast could bring
disputes to arbitration, various parts of their Comcast-customer agreement were severed (including the one prohibiting class actions) because
they violated public policy? Well, the issue comes up again. This time, a plaintiff came to the state court and the action was removed to ...
22 Nov, 2006 5:57 am
The Comcast Corporation and the Walt Disney Company have agreed to a new distribution deal that would
bring Disney programming to Comcast's On Demand service. A few details of the deal have been reported here, for example. Comcast paid $1.23...
19 Sep, 2007 5:59 am
... action waivers, the 11th Circuit recently stepped into the fray with a Georgia-based case in Dale et al. v. Comcast Corporation. At that outset, while this is an 11th Circuit case, much of this decision is based upon Georgia law. So those Florida practitioners ...
subscriber apparently could only claim a few dollars refund per year, the most efficient remedy was the class action. Comcast's subscriber
agreement has an arbitration clause with a class action waiver (quoted in the opinion) but then also ...
28 Jul, 2006 4:41 pm
In Order FCC 06-105, the Commission approved the sale of substantially all of the cable systems and assets of Adelphia Communications Corporation to Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation, the exchange of
certain cable systems and assets between affiliates or...
2 Aug, 2008 5:16 am
RE: Formal Complaint of Free Press and Public Knowledge Against Comcast Corporation for Secretly
Degrading Peer-to-Peer Applications; Broadband Industry Practices,...
16 Jan, 2008 5:46 pm
... Schwartz claims he never saw the subscriber agreement. The court's response to this factual dispute is rather amazing: Comcast's evidence
of its consistent practice regarding delivery of subscription agreements and of the conduct of the parties ... the agreement. The court cites a Federal Rule of Evidence that says a
corporate routine is relevant to prove that the routine was followed in this case. So when Comcast claims it has a pattern of spamming
its users with the subscriber agreement, the court ...
23 Apr, 2008 9:45 am
... with free access to, and distribution of, democratic (with a small d) content." The big telecommunication companies like Comcast
persistently argue that their ability to police the Internet will lead to greater innovation within the private sector while ... legislative action, the longer millions of individual
users of the Internet will need to contend with the whims of a few large corporate service providers. Systems put in place by government have permitted these private entities to
control access ...
29 May, 2008 4:44 pm
... . The defacement message was short and simple: "KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast," it read. "sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er
seven." A screenshot taken during the ... .net hijacking shows Defiant in control of the company's domain names. Courtesy Defiant Comcast
boasts 14 million subscribers nationwide, and handling the massive traffic aimed at ... in general. "I'm sure they hate us too," says Defiant. "Comcast is just a huge corporation, and we wanted to take them out, and we did," he ...
26 Mar 8:56 pm
... , the blog has a distinct home for the cable company's plentiful policy issues. Comcast's Senior Vice President, External Affairs and
Public Policy Counsel Joe ... specifically bought into the RIAA's three-strike plan with ISPs. Waz declares that Comcast has "no plans to test
or implement a so-called 'three strikes and you're out' policy." Also posting to the blog, is Sena Fitzmaurice -- Comcast's Senior Director for
Corporate Communications and Government Affairs. Fitzmaurice has posted on Julius ...
27 Sep, 2004 10:07 am
In Monday's corporations and securities law news, Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. have indicated that they may make a joint bid for
bankrupt cable-television operator Adelphia Communications Corp. The bid may allow Time Warner to swap Adelphia assets in exchange for Comcast's interest in Time Warner Cable. Comcast also announced a new plan which will reduce Comcast's interest in Time Warner
24 Oct, 2007 8:13 am
... way Comcast is abandoning network neutrality and screwing its Internet customers. Apparently, collaborating on corporate platforms
like Lotus Notes is a problem! Well bowled, Comcast. Way to go after those n'erdowells. Seth writes: ... When an ... services, will be at
Comcast's mercy. It should also be remembered that in many parts of the United States, Comcast is a
duopoly or even a monopoly provider of broadband Internet access. Competition might offer some protection against packet-forging ISPs, ...
20 Mar, 2008 4:14 pm
... now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast's senior VP of user
experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built ... , DVR-clogging addiction to Keeping Up with the Kardashians? Kunkel also spoke on
camera with me about fixing bad Comcast user experiences, the ongoing BitTorrent battle and VOD. But he mostly towed the corporate line
on these issues (the monitoring your living room came up ...
27 Mar, 2008 5:20 pm
Comcast and BitTorrent have decided to work things out for themselves. Their corporate personas have probably decided that a pending
decision from the FCC on Comcast's network management practices would not be in anyone's interest. The FCC had said a...
16 Feb, 2004 6:36 am
In Monday's corporations and securities law news, Kuwaiti lawmakers have unanimously voted for a parliamentary investigation into charges that a Kuwaiti-based subsidiary of
Halliburton overcharged for fuel deliveries to Iraq after the US-led war ended. AP has more.... European regulators will base their upcoming decision on Comcast's bid for Walt Disney on Comcast's level of business in Europe.
19 Apr, 2005 12:30 pm
[JURIST] [JURIST] Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting [subscription req'd] Cablevision Systems Corp. [corporate
website] has raised its bid for Adelphia Communications Inc. [corporate website] to $17.1 billion. The move may threaten the $18 billion competing offer from Time Warner Inc.
[corporate website] and Comcast Corp [corporate
17 Sep, 2007 6:00 am
In Dale v. Comcast Corp., ___ F.3d ___ (11th Cir. Sept. 4, 2007), the Eleventh Circuit reversed a district court order compelling abitration,
saying, in relevant part: Corporations should not be permitted to use class action waivers as a means to exculpate themselves from liability for small-value claims. We thus
conclude that the enforceability of a particular class action waiver in an arbitration agreement must be ...
22 Jul, 2008 9:28 am
[JURIST] New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo [official profile] wrote in a letter [text, PDF] Monday that his office would bring legal action within five days against Comcast Cable Communications [corporate website] unless the company agrees to block child pornography websites and strengthen its reporting
requirements. Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint agreed to block access to the sites
16 Dec, 2008 4:56 pm
I am a loyal Comcast customer. Couple reasons. I would like to get FiOS, but I don't want my twisted copper land line stripped out of my house
and so far, Verizon isn't offering an alternative. Also I just like their commercials, they're funny.It pleases me to note that Comcast, like
all the other cable operators, is taking the digital transition seriously and providing their customers with all
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