Yesterday's hearing into Comcast's traffic-shaping practices [1] at Harvard Law School attracted a huge crowd, one so large that people who arrived over an hour before it started were turned away. It was a packed house for a good show, one that featured Comcast and net neutrality proponents making their case in front of the five commissioners of the FCC.

A day after, allegations have surfaced that Comcast paid people to show up and sit in the meeting room in order to keep people from expressing their feelings about Comcast's actions to the FCC. Save The Internet is accusing Comcast of busing in a crowd of supports to pack the room.

"These seat-warmers were paid to fill the room, a move that kept others from taking part," according to a posting on the Save The Internet blog. "They arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat, upon which many promptly fell asleep."

To read the article, click here [2].