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: I enjoy watching Richard Bennett take on Lawrence Lessig: clash of the titans. Today, they’re jousting over Lessig’s (predictable anti-media-company) desire to have the FCC regulate a cable-company behavior that Bennett says isn’t happening: namely, forcing broadband customers to use one source of content over another. It’s a bit inside baseball but it’s entertaining. Says Bennett:
Regardless of how you estimate the difficulty of building a bogus DNS and of intercepting IP addresses and spoofing them, the fact remains that cable Internet providers do not, in point of fact, do these things today. I know there are lots of Urban Legends circulating about this stuff, but I have yet to see any credible evidence in support of the threat that Lessig and Wu perceive. Given that nobody engages in these practices, we don
