thender2
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
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said by quatrix  :Enough trolling, Karl. Can we go just one day without a post that's anti-business or pro-piracy? It's far from a unanimous opinion that Comcast should publicize its caps. Eight years ago(give or take one), it was people like you saying that the only reason for 512/90 DSL connections were for piracy because media files require a lot of bandwidth.
Now, 512/90 is a joke - for driver downloads, or piracy, compared to what most broadband ISPs offer for that same $55/month.
There are many reasons for better caps, and many of them are legal. Trading sessions with a friend, higher quality legal audio/video on the net(god knows we need it, youtube looks like shit and streaming radio on tons of sites is 80k).
It's pretty damn ignorant to say the only purpose for higher bandwidth and a lack of caps is piracy. It's people like you that hinder technological progress. If people like you were on the board of directors of certain companies over the past 40 years, we'd have no VCRs, no CD/DVD burners, no tape machines, no consumer level recordable records.. it's pathetic that people still think like that.
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA
 ·Mediacom
| "It's people like you that hinder technological progress. If people like you were on the board of directors of certain companies over the past 40 years, we'd have no VCRs, no CD/DVD burners, no tape machines, no consumer level recordable records.. it's pathetic that people still think like that."
Amen, Brother. |
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CLEVELTECH
join:2006-12-21
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This issue is NOT about piracy anyway. But to every ISP's defense (including Comcast's) they do not monitor what it is that you are hitting or downloading, rather they are looking at the node and how hard it is working. That being said, it's pretty clear to me that Comcast's network CANNOT handle the number of users and the increasing loads of content.
Top 1%? Let's do the math: Comcast number of users (according to what they publicly state): 11 million subscribers
number of users booted off for network abuse: 1%= 115,000 (and growing).
Can you say Federal class-action suit happing soon and CEO/blow-hard Brian Roberts is gonna be brought back down to planet earth?
And for those of you that think invisible caps are better? Your day will come when you receive "the call" and you're on the other side of the fence on this issue. |
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