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kudos:4 | reply to patcat88
Re: passing the buck said by patcat88:Cheap ass mofos. Passing on their upstream bandwidth bill to consumers. I hope this is ad free if you pay for it with your upstream. This is just another instance of a content provider trying to shift their costs from themselves to the ISP. The fact that CNN felt compelled to hide the fact that they were doing this makes it even more obvious.
If you don't want Octoshape P2P software on your computer and you already let it on by mistake, do the following:
Fortunately, the Octoshape program isn't hard to find or remove:
* Step 1. To find out whether the Octoshape app is running, you can use Windows' built-in Task Manager. (Right-click a blank space on the Task Bar, and then click Task Manager.)
As Susan Bradley shows in a blog post, when you're viewing a live stream from CNN.com, you'll see in Task Manager a service called octoshape.exe. (In the illustration on her blog, instances of the service are shown to be consuming 63MB of RAM, but a lot of this memory may be taken up by the Flash Player itself.)
* Step 2. To remove Octoshape's app, you can use the Control Panel in either Windows XP or Vista. In XP, the applet is called Add or Remove Programs. In Vista, it's Programs and Features. The "Octoshape add-in for Adobe Flash Player" is the name of the program to uninstall.
Strangely, there isn't an uninstaller for the Mac version of the app. You have to manually delete the Octoshape folder.
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