Comcast Traffic Shaping Impacts Gnutella, Lotus Notes? > The EFF

reply to nasadude

Re: The EFF

What does people having a choice have to do with what Comcast is doing? Nothing.

reply to human1137

reply to Jodokast96
actually that is incorrect. it means everything. if they limit traffic that you request, & that is not something you want done with your connection......then you drop them as a provider, & find another one that gives you what you want....or do without.

No, it means nothing. Whether one chooses Comcast or another company has no bearing at all on Comcasts actions being wrong. I made my choice, I chose Verizon. Comcasts actions are still wrong. One has nothing to do with the other. Try again.

reply to greendragon
Actually if you truly understood the power of customers in a free market, you would see it is totally do-able, & the greater good could be achieved. If customers on the whole are unhappy with widgets & just stopped buying them(even if you only had one choice for a provider), that provider would have to adjust their business model or fail.

You have the mistaken impression that broadband access IS a free market. It's not. It's highly regulated. Comcast holds a government-granted monopoly or duopoly on broadband internet access in many areas, as granted and controlled by local and state municipal governments.

Some of these areas could be serviced by wireless access providers. Alas, this is also not a free market, as radio broadcast signals are regulated by the FCC.

reply to human1137
In a perfect world, your example would work. However, this is a far from perfect world.

reply to human1137
You sound like one of those "it's either black or white" people. While I agree with you to a certain extent, it is not possible for me to go without totally. I need "high speed" internet of some kind. I have high expectations for a lot of things in my life and if I waited until business caught up with my expectations then I'd still be without, while others surpassed me.

Life just isn't as black and white as you put it...
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Folding for our future!!

I apologize. not black & white, just going there to save time. But you have finally hit the nail on the head with something like this, or anything mega-corporations do. You "NEED" it.....effectively handing over the power of the customer to companies. Because people just cant do without it. They just don't know how they lived without it(& we don't need to cover the quality of life position, etc, etc). & that's where the invisible caps come from....the vague tos's....lawsuits to dead people downloading songs....driving a trailer grandma to go thor in some local office....because we hand our power over to them. this issue(& every other issue) would last one afternoon if the people took the power back. we've seen it.....this site, because of its members, wields some power in getting answers & companies to back peddle. now just imagine if every comcast customer got po'd

reply to human1137