Brian Fung from the Washington Post writes: Last month, we reported that a federal jury slapped Cox Communications with a $6 million penalty for breaking antitrust laws. Cox had illegally forced customers to rent the company's set-top box as a condition of receiving premium cable service, the jury ruled.
Now, a federal judge has overturned that verdict, saying that the consumers who initially sued Cox didn't do enough to prove that the company misbehaved.
U.S. Internet provider Cox Communications is scheduled to go to trial soon, defending itself against copyright infringement claims from two music companies. In a new motion Cox asks the court to prohibit the use of any material claiming that BitTorrent equals piracy. BitTorrent has plenty legitimate uses and equating it to infringement would mislead the jury during trial, the ISP argues.
Internet provider Cox Communications has asked a Virginia federal court to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by several music companies last year. The case relies on evidence collected by piracy tracking firm Rightscorp, which Cox says is unusable after the anti-piracy outfit destroyed older versions of its piracy tracking code.
Maximum PC: Maybe by the end of the decade we'll all be rocking 1Gbps Internet connections. There seems to be an increased interest on the part of broadband Internet providers to keep pace with Google and its Google Fiber service, so it's not a matter of "if" but "when" we'll see gigabit speeds. If you're a Cox Communications customers, expect to see 1Gbps broadband Internet service available by the end of 2016.
They are just doing it because Google is spreading.
If won't be cheap either. In less than 9 months they have raised their price 3 times! And even with the higher prices they still throttle connections.....
Googles 1 gig service will be 70 bucks, at Cox thats 20Mbps......
I'm not adverse to that sort of competition, It's just the what that market needs. Less stagnation, & more revitalizing of network infrastructures for future growth: it's just what's needed. Although, I would prefer that gigabit service to come from Google itself.
