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The good news is that Comcast’s new streaming service, Stream TV, does not count its video streams toward the subscriber’s data cap. The bad news, according to consumer watchdog Public Knowledge, is that this may violate FCC net neutrality regulations by favoring Comcast’s streaming operation over other popular services such as Netflix or Hulu.

Declares the group’s senior staff attorney John Bergmayer: “Comcast is attempting to frame its self-serving, discriminatory actions in a way designed to slip through real or imagined loopholes or exceptions to both the Open Internet rules or its merger commitments, but none of these attempts work.”

Comcast retorts that Stream TV “is an in-home IP-cable service delivered over Comcast’s cable network, not the public Internet.