Brad, if you are for transparency, why are you so concerned about my exposure of your conflicts of interest? It seems to me that if you're for disclosure, you should be for that sort of disclosure too.

As for the EFF: It published a report (see http://www.eff.org/files/eff_comcast_report.pdf) using intentionally inflammatory language which mischaracterized the P2P mitigation techniques used by Comcast. It uses the word "forgery" (implying criminal activity) dozens of times for a standard network management technique, and suggests that P2P users (who consist mostly of people pirating intellectual property) hack around it, in violation of Federal law. (It's a Federal crime to obtain unauthorized access to a computer network.)

We and any ISP with any sense will fight this and the EFF. The EFF has taken many such wrongheaded positions in the past -- including being pro-CALEA when it could have stopped the bill. The group is not worthy of support.