Youth wings Subnational Multi-national Andrew Norton (known also by his pseudonym "K`Tetch"; born 24 June 1980) is a British roboticist, politician and researcher.
He also worked on several seasons of Comedy Central's BattleBots, as well as other small TV roles, including an appearance in Spaced both in front of and behind the camera.
In the late 1990s Norton worked as a commercial copyright enforcer for a London-based record label, however he resigned from this role in 1999 over protests with the industry response to Napster and MP3s.
He is also currently a P2P systems researcher and was the assistant director of Electronic Frontier Forums, a series of lectures and panels given at Dragon Con each year, before becoming a segment producer and content creator for DragonConTV in 2017.
He led a research team and discovered[10] that Comcast was using a product called Sandvine to disrupt Bittorrent usage nationwide.
Once this research was verified by the Associated Press[11] and EFF[12] it prompted an FCC investigation[13] leading to the imposition of updated Net Neutrality rules.
The IPO later admitted overreach[17] while emails obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request showed that such standards are not applied to larger respondents, only to individuals, for the purposes of amusement.
Norton, who has used the pseudonym "K`Tetch" since 1996 including on his domain WHOIS, fell foul of these new changes, which required all domains handled by Nominet to have their WHOIS information verified through government databases, or copies of photo ID submitted to Nominet, outraging many including Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.