said by Placebo :

It's up to you, the consumer, to determine who gets your money, and how much of it they get. If you don't agree with the way they do business, then don't give them your damn money.

Why is that so hard to understand?

said by cao1964 :

Oh please though its agains the law you think companies don't conspire to keep prices high and services as they are.

said by Nightfall :

Last time I checked 2 wrongs don't make a right.

said by Necromantik :

Hackers are cool.

said by dadkins :

This "hacker" needs mommy to slap him.

said by lordofwhee :

This is one of the very few ways the average joe (or in this case, the average hacker joe) can make a statement to a giant corporation that will actually be heard.

said by yock :

You have not been forced into any contract. You entered into it fully aware of the limitations on the service. If you require special needs, then you need to negotiate those needs with them. They can either provide for those needs or they cannot. It still doesn't justify violating the terms.

You need to find other avenues of fulfillment for those needs.

said by Qumahlin :

You've clearly have never lived or had an extended visit to NYC. There is no type of person on the internet that you won't encounter in the city.

said by haplo2112 :

As I said earlier my reasons and motivations are my own. I'm not going in to it, I need to have physical access to the hardware on a basically daily basis. It is for personal use, there are no conveniently located colo facilities and the ones that are near enough to consider won't host what I need hosted anyway.

edit: stupid spell checker.

said by braynes :

no place in the world would I ever run in to one like you.
Bruce

said by dadkins :

So, because you or someone else has an issue or a bad experience, doesn't mean we all will.

This "hacker" needs mommy to slap him.
I hope he does time with Bubba! :D

said by kadar :

Didn't affect me.
So where does the "all" come into play?

said by taar :

I am sure they covered their tracks pretty well before doing this. No doubt they will eventually be caught but i have a feeling it will be from them boasting all over the net instead of a trace of the IP address where the attack originated.

said by yock :

Care to elaborate?

said by braynes :

Explain to me what you must do on the Internet that you cannot accomplish any other way.

Listen to you.
Bruce

said by devnuller :

"I wasn't even really thinking. Plus, I'm just so mad at Comcast. I'm tired of their shitty service."

So negativly impact all their customers...

said by Nightfall :

Last time I checked 2 wrongs don't make a right.

said by haplo2112 :

It doesn't matter if you like the analogy or not, it amounts to the same thing. The Corporations have become our oppressors in this day and age. It is our right as citizens in a at least nominally free country to protest against that oppression.

said by haplo2112 :

"Your argument breaks down when we talk about necessity, which was my point to begin with. You absolutely do not need the Internet. Even if you did, committing a federal crime is not an acceptable form of protest for unfair contracts."

Worked for the Boston Tea Party!

said by Morac :

People managed to wash and nourish themselves just fine before indoor plumbing and electricity were invented. It's only these days that people would be lost with them, because they don't know how to live without them. So based on your comments convenience begets necessity.

I say in a few years people won't be able to function without the Internet even though they could go back to the old way of doing things. And those born after the Internet was invented won't know of any other way.

said by yock :

I can't wash or nourish myself without water or electricity. Running water and in-home electricity makes those convenient.

said by haplo2112 :

Actually no I could not decide that, Internet access at my home is a requirement. I refuse to go into the pile of details of why, I feel its enough to say that it is required.

Further more its my right to whine, bitch moan, scream and violate TOS/AUP to get what I need out of the internet connection. If they will not sell me what I need then I will take it however I can. NOTE: I am not hacking the connection or messing with their infrastructure in any way, just flogging the connection 24/7 doing what I need to do with it.

said by Morac :

I'll reverse the question. You can do any of those things without indoor plumbing, phone service or electric power. So why are those considered necessities, but Internet isn't?

said by yock :

Why is it a necessity? I can still buy groceries, order any pay for services, get medical treatment, buy real estate and real property, and anything else separate from the Internet.

said by yock :

Explain to me what you must do on the Internet that you cannot accomplish any other way.

said by Morac :

In this day and age the Internet has pretty much become a necessity and dial-up doesn't cut it. If you tell people to cancel their Internet access, you might as well also tell them to cancel their phone and power service as well.

said by GOLFnSUN :

I hope the FBI tracks them down and throws their sorry butts in prison. We'll see if they are still laughing then.

said by yock :

So, you absolutely need broadband Internet access? Then you'd better get used to dealing with the terms of use put forth by companies like Comcast. As long as you need their service then you'll have to abide by the terms of what's available.

Or you could decide you don't need broadband and cancel your service.

said by haplo2112 :

"Another thing they could have done was just cancel service."

WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE GET IT!

In most of the country nobody can just cancel service. ISP's are a monopoly just about everywhere. There is one count 'em ONE broadband provider for whatever area in which they live. So therefore we have to hope, beg and plead for the one choice we have to offer us what we want or need from an ISP.

said by Modsquad :

You must not have ever tried to rationally resolve an issue with Comcast. It's next to impossible.

said by GOLFnSUN :

I hope the FBI tracks them down

said by taar :

I am sure they covered their tracks pretty well before doing this. No doubt they will eventually be caught but i have a feeling it will be from them boasting all over the net instead of a trace of the IP address where the attack originated.

said by lordofwhee :

This is one of the very few ways the average joe (or in this case, the average hacker joe) can make a statement to a giant corporation that will actually be heard.

said by devnuller :

So negativly impact all their customers... nice move.

said by Modsquad :

You must not have ever tried to rationally resolve an issue with Comcast. It's next to impossible. Here in the Houston metro area, we had Time Warner/Road Runner service & they were bought out by Comcrap...errr, Comcast and let me tell you, the service is night & day different. It took them two weeks just to call me back to tell me if I could even get service in my subdivision that's at least 6 years old and I have friends down the street with their service. Then trying to get my own cable modem (which was the exact same model as the ones they hand out at the store front) I couldn't even get it online, for at least 4 weeks now....and I go get one of theirs, and it doesn't work about 90% of the time because the tech that came out initially didn't balance the connection or check for interference.

I have been transferred to every department & it never got resolved....I've went thru a few thousand 'roll over' minutes I had stored up on my cell phone....(i don't have a land line) so yes, it's VERY frustrating having to call back & get some NEW moron & having to spend countless amounts of time RE-explaining the situation because they are not adept enough to escalate you to someone that CAN fix the damn problem or at least have someone contact you that can.

I don't know HOW the hell they stay in business with the crappy customer service they have.

said by Modsquad :

You must not have ever tried to rationally resolve an issue with Comcast. It's next to impossible.

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said by lordofwhee :

This is one of the very few ways the average joe (or in this case, the average hacker joe) can make a statement to a giant corporation that will actually be heard.

said by devnuller :

"I wasn't even really thinking. Plus, I'm just so mad at Comcast. I'm tired of their shitty service."

So negativly impact all their customers... nice move. Another thing they could have done was just cancel service.

said by lordofwhee :

This is one of the very few ways the average joe (or in this case, the average hacker joe) can make a statement to a giant corporation that will actually be heard.