Comcast BitTorrent Efforts Violating State Laws? > Be carefull what you wish for

Be carefull what you wish for

And those customers switch to slower DSL which is cheaper, right? No legal reason for Comcast couldn't write a data transfer cap into all contracts going forward. But people WANT unlimited service, I don't most people are going to switch to a service that isn't net-neutral.

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Oh please - if Comcrap was that close to having a problem maintaining banwidth on their network - that if all it's users consistantly used the top speed of WHAT THEY ARE PAYING COMCRAP FOR in a sustained manner, Comcast wouldn't be able to handle the traffic - resulting in some kind of digital log-jam, then why in the hell are they selling people higher tiers and powerboost - which can almost quadruple your speeds??? They are either stupid or dishonest! If they are telling customers that they are paying for 8mbps service, then that's what they should get - and they cannot use "illegal usage" as a reason to throttle unless they can positively tell that there is such illegal use. They cannot tell simply by the amount of up/downloading - or because it's a P2P network - the only way to be 100% sure is to intercept and analyze the download. Since that is invasion of privacy WHICH IS ILLEGAL, then it stands to reason that Comcast has no legal recourse for restricting a users activities in regards to what they are up/downloading. Therefore a TOS statement is unenforceable.

If Comcrap followed you example, and opened up it's bandwidth, you know what that would be? COMCAST DOING WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING! And as far as the sudden increase of traffic "slowing down the net" - that's a load of crap. America's internet is so throttled , controlled and artificially slowed-down (we can't "afford" or will not pay what they want to offer us unfettered speeds... it's all part of the "plan" to keep it at a certain pace because we will pay more later...) that "opening up the bandwidth" might not get good headlines for all the fake complaints from Comcrap and other rip-off artists - but technically will actually help the internet to run better.

Japan has speeds of over 30mbps - I frequent some of their forums as well... I rarely hear them complaining about "bandwidth" issues - which from the very start wasn't really a physical value anyway - it's an arbitrary unit used to give companies like Comcrap a tangible reason to charge you! That's why the only time you hear about them spending a lot of money is when they are expanding lines or upgradeing equipment.

Bandwidth is the biggest con ever created - once you are connected it really costs next to nothing as the signal is just an electronic stream... and with broadband your "electronic stream" is always connected... But people have allowed themselves to be conned into NOT thinking about it. It cost more to throttle than it does to let it flow - but then, if you want to have a reason to continually raise prices - of course your going to portion it out,, raising the price each time you open the hose a bit.

All of your points sound like the brainwashed babble that Comcrap infuses and even spouts itself in defense of it's practices. Even if it were true - there are simply not enough people on BT or all of the P2P networks to "clog up the network" anyway, regardless if they were downloading at full powerboost speeds. And Comcrap is going to raise your fees regardless - might as well get something out of it - like the ability to actually USE the speed you paid them for... consistantly... at a sustained rate...