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 b1gdr3I Blame Your Mother
join:2001-07-28
York, PA | Nuff Said from »www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp
"You shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user's use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network. In addition, you shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, disrupt, degrade, or impede Comcast's ability to deliver and provide the Service and monitor the Service, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services. If your use of the Service results in the consumption of bandwidth in excess of the applicable limitations, that is a violation of this Policy. In such cases, Comcast may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your Service account or request that you subscribe to a version of the Service with higher bandwidth usage limitations if you wish to continue to use the Service at higher bandwidth consumption levels."
People should read the ToS more. You can't just abuse the network and make your neighbor's connection suffer and think that because you bellyache and cry to the press, it's just going to be fine. Not only is Comcast right on this, they have the legal authority to do it.
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| said by b1gdr3:from » www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp"You shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user's use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network. In addition, you shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, disrupt, degrade, or impede Comcast's ability to deliver and provide the Service and monitor the Service, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services. If your use of the Service results in the consumption of bandwidth in excess of the applicable limitations, that is a violation of this Policy. In such cases, Comcast may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your Service account or request that you subscribe to a version of the Service with higher bandwidth usage limitations if you wish to continue to use the Service at higher bandwidth consumption levels." People should read the ToS more. You can't just abuse the network and make your neighbor's connection suffer and think that because you bellyache and cry to the press, it's just going to be fine. Not only is Comcast right on this, they have the legal authority to do it. That's where we're back to square one
Comcast does not say how much is too much.
If they want to complain on subscribers' usage, then they need to tell us first the limit. We gotta draw the line.
Comcast can't have both ways. it's one way or the other.
It's called honest/transparent business practice, not some fuzzy rules | | |
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xiaobb
join:2005-12-21
Seattle, WA | thats right, I m not complaining if they're not complaining. | |
 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | reply to melonduck
Comcast doesn't HAVE to say how much is too much. It's their network, they can do whatever they wish with it.
Did any of y'all even read the TOS/AUP?
You no likely? You have every right to terminate the service!
Thing is, so do they!
*I* live within the outlined Terms Of Service and Acceptable Use Policy... I like my Comcast service!
YMMV.
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Comcast is NOT right on this and if you look at the TOS it is one-sided and very vague. I give them credit, whoever wrote this cleverly wrote it in such a way that even though it is questionable, legally it gives them an upper-hand. There will be a day when they are in front of a federal judge and watch as this pathetic one-sided contract is ripped apart and angry former Comcast subscribers sue the shit out of them.
Comcast claims it's the top 1% of users they see as abusers, ok do the math dude, they claim to have 11 million users so that means that it's 115,000 disconnected customers. Nothing to sneeze at.
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Oh look. A Cable company posting it's HSI limitations.
»www.cox.com/policy/limitations.asp
Every HSI company I've dealt with provides the limits you agree to. That is unless you are Comcast.
People should read the ToS more. You can't just abuse the network and make your neighbor's connection suffer and think that because you bellyache and cry to the press, it's just going to be fine. Not only is Comcast right on this, they have the legal authority to do it.
You must be a lawyer because the TOS doesn't mean anything to normal people. But unlike Cox Communications, Comcast has a lot to learn on how to run a business with HSI. It may be legal but certainly on the grey side of it. It's not as black and white as you think.
So if Comcast customers didn't purchase a 6/8/12 meg pipe, what on earth are HSI customers paying for???
Oh and as far as legal goes. You can trust Comcast to do the right thing, right?
»news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-923285.html
Oh my. A class action lawsuit against Comcast for violating the Telecommunications Privacy Act?
It was filed in 2002 however I'm still trying to learn the outcome. The lawyers involved in the action have not responded yet. I'll be happy to post it on my blog once I've learned the outcome.
»comcastissue.blogspot.com
You can't trust a company to do what's right for it's customers. That's why the Government has laws against unfair business practices. Check ftc.gov. It's been very interesting to read what's happened over th years against companies. | |
b1gdr3I Blame Your Mother
join:2001-07-28
York, PA | reply to CLEVELTECH
said by CLEVELTECH:There will be a day when they are in front of a federal judge Actually not. YOU agreed to the ToS by using the service. So now you want to complain about the terms YOU agreed to?
Also, the ToS states that binding arbitration is your recourse, so yeah uh-huh about that federal judge.
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