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**</div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A</span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span>U.S. appeals court</span></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">dealt a setback to the Federal Communications Commission&#39;s authority to oversee the Internet, tossing out an agency ruling that forced</span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial">Comcast Corp</span></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">to change the way it managed its</span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial">broadband network</span></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">.</span></div>

<div>**</div><div><br></div><div>I take this to mean that Comcast</div><div>has a blank check to play around </div><div>with user content now.</div><div><br></div><div>I imagine BitTorrent will be one of</div><div>the first things to go now.</div>

<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>   -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
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