swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to ztmike
Re: Comcrap
I agree they would win in court, but I think it is "defauding the customers" in some sense. If Comcast deliberately forges a packet, and the customer relies on that packet to be genuine, and suffers disadvantage because it's not, there are the legal elements are deception, intent to deceive, reliance, and harm. It's on such a micro-scale that it would never be placed under the same legal rule as selling bogus merchandise, but in principle it is odious.
To the editorialist above: Is it OK for an individual to go into a situation for some other purpose - say, into a business to install a router - and start falsifying traffic? Maybe it benefits some third party; does that make it OK? If not, then why is it OK for a corporation to do the same?
The larger issue is that if it comes to be considered acceptable for ISPs to falsify customers' internet traffic on a small scale, it opens the door to legalized DNS poisoning, stealth censorship of news reports, and other abuses.
Edited to clarify. |
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matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT
| Unfortunately, in this country of ours ("The best in the world!") it is never justice or reason that wins in our courts -- it's who can spend the most money and drag it out the longest. How much longer do we have to let the rich get away with whatever they want before U.S. citizens will start the next revolution? |
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lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL
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I think there is an angle worth investigating.
Remember the FCC decision to label cable modem service as an information service instead of a telecom service in effect removing regulatory requirements.
I could be wrong but a big difference between the two is that bits change in a telecom service and they do not change in an information service. I could have this completely reversed but if not then comcast is operating a telecom service and should have to experience the full impact of each appropriate regulator entity. |
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Kzbd
join:2006-10-01
Roselle, IL | reply to matrix3D
YEAH REVOLUTION! Wait, you want to storm Comcast? |
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