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1 edit | New member 1st post First I would like to say I have really enjoyed sitting in the background, and watching all of the bantering back and forth. I suspect all of your strong willed with even stronger opinions will probable let me slide on this post, but I am sure it will only be a matter of time before I am down there on the mat with some of you scrapping it out.
Now for my thoughts on this post. I really don't look at this as a bit torrent issue so much as a throttling issue. To me that would be the same as saying most of us could afford and had a few 100 thousand dollar sports car, and because a few of use drove like a mad man through the middle of down town at 120 miles an hour we all had to have a governor put on our cars, and could only go 55 mph when we took our cars to the track. Not to mention I am one of those people that thinks if a company is going to advertise an all you can eat for a flat price then I should be able to eat as much as I want in that sitting/month, and the company should be man enough to stand behind what they sold me without changing the rules part way through. Now lets say I have a connection that can download 100 gigs in 4 day at about 10Mb/sec, and cost $50 a month, but the company does not want me to use any more than 99.9 gigs a month. Well then I think the company needs to be up front and honest with me from the get go and say you are capped at a 100 gigs a month, or set the speed to not be able to exceed the 99.9 gigs. It is just flat out BS for them to came back to me later and say i know we said your were going to get this fantastic sports car, but that just is not going to work for us. You are only allowed to drive it like and old beater that is missing on 1 cylinder if you don't want to listen to use bitch about using it like we advertised it to you.
The other thing that gets me is some of the people here seem to think that if the people that download movies did not or could not download movies they would go to the theater and pay $10 to see "same crappy movie 5". I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they are not going to, and in time when they don't or can't download movies, they are going to buy a cheaper broadband connection, fewer hard drives, cd's, dvd's, burners. So, yea the media mafia is kind of right about lost revenue, but the majority of that lost revenue will be in hardware loss not data. Ok, maybe you guys wont let me slide on my first post, and will start flaming right out of the gate. I guess we will see.  | |
 telcolackey5The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA | You can have a car that goes 120 miles per hour, but the manufacturer does not want to keep paying the warranty repair bills because you are running at that speed 24 hours a day (many times breaking the law, but that is not the point).
They could terminate your warranty or raise the cost of the service contract for everyone to pay for a few people abusing the cars. "But you advertised the car would go to 7,000 RPMs and 120 Mph!!!!"
Perhaps instead of a governor or canceling contracts, the manufacturer should change the warranty to miles. If you exceed this you need to start paying for these repairs. hmmm...
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 JollyStomperThe Funky Feel OnePremium
join:2003-03-16
Level 15 | reply to lvlorpheus
said by lvlorpheus:Now for my thoughts on this post. I really don't look at this as a bit torrent issue so much as a throttling issue. To me that would be the same as saying most of us could afford and had a few 100 thousand dollar sports car, and because a few of use drove like a mad man through the middle of down town at 120 miles an hour we all had to have a governor put on our cars, and could only go 55 mph when we took our cars to the track. That's been done already. Remember the late 70's/early 80's (Drive 55, cars put out on the market topped out at 85MPH, etc...)?
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