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The FCC has given Comcast 30 days to comply with the penalties they assessed for the company's "unreasonable" BitTorrent throttling process.

"[W]e institute a plan that will bring Comcast’s unreasonable conduct to an end," continues the ruling. "In particular, we require Comcast within 30 days to disclose the details of their unreasonable network management practices, submit a compliance plan describing how it intends to stop these unreasonable management practices by the end of the year, and disclose to both the Commission and the public the details of the network management practices that it intends to deploy following termination of its current practices."

Comcast's assault on its users is not over, however.

Comcast is already devising new methods of managing network traffic, including its most recent "fair share" plan which will throttle the heaviest bandwidth users during periods of congestion and reduce their connection speeds for anywhere from between 10 and 20 minutes (afterwards it would return to normal). Throttled users will find themselves relegated to "a really good DSL experience," according to Mitch Bowling, Comcast's senior VP and general manager of online services.