U.S. judges questioned the FCC’s authority to punish Comcast Corp for blocking online file-sharing services on Friday in a case that could wind up curbing the regulators’ campaign for a free and open Internet.

(Openinternetcoalition) A new public letter signed by 30 business investors in technology companies was sent today to the Chairman of the FCC and released by the Open Internet Coalition.

Prominent venture capitalists –including five of the top ten ranked investors on the 2009 Forbes Magazine “Midas List” – support “the Commission’s ongoing efforts to adopt rules to safeguard the open Internet.”

These investors and entrepreneurs back openness rules across all Internet networks, both wired and wireless, to drive “investment, job creation, and consumer welfare.”

With Democrats in charge in Washington, supporters of so-called “net neutrality” rules seem poised to finally push through requirements that high-speed Internet providers give equal treatment to all data flowing over their networks…….

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Inc said any new “net neutrality” rules imposed by U.S. regulators need to apply to Web companies like Google Inc as much as to phone companies to ensure a level playing field……