| reply to rody_40
Re: Class action lawsuit said by rody_40:
they havent picked up on it because they wouldnt have a case. they dont miss much and this isnt anything new its just new to at@t broadband users. comcast subscribers had tryed starting class action law suits last year and everything else being discussed only to find out there is nothing wrong with what comcast is doing. if you dont like it simply dont subscribe to the service. simple as that
How would you know that they don't have a case when it hasn't even gone to court? Right now we are simply stating personal opinions, and in my opinion there's at least a 50-50 chance that this sort of lawsuit would be successful, for the simple reason that many users simply don't have the option to not subscribe to the service if they need broadband (of course you could argue that no one "needs" broadband, but I think you are going to find that as time goes by, Internet service becomes more and more considered a functional necessity of life, much like telephone service, whereas cable TV service will always be considered "entertainment" and therefore not a necessity. Anyway, that's one of the reasons you can't be sure how a court might rule, but if you can demonstrate that children need Internet access to not be seriously disadvantaged compared to their classmates - and that's not a difficult case to make at all - then you may well be able to convince a court that Internet service is a necessity that requires far more oversight in regard to price regulation).
Also, while other class action lawsuits have been filed against Comcast, I don't think many have been decided yet. For example, there is a pending lawsuit based on the assertion that "Approximately one million Comcast Internet customers had their Web surfing habits tracked by Comcast earlier this year. Comcast admitted that for a period of six weeks it had been recording information such as the IP (Internet protocol) address of customers' computers as well as Web pages they visited, but discontinued the practice following news reports and customer complaints" (see »www.bigclassaction.com/class_act···ast.html and/or »zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-923285.html ).
One thing we all know is that there are no guarantees in the law. This is the type of case where even various circuits around the country could disagree with each other, and the case could potentially wind up at the supreme court.
All I'm saying is that I'm just surprised that none of the law firms that specialize in class action lawsuits have looked into this. To me, this seems to be a much bigger deal that six weeks of tracking what web sites their customers visited (although I'm not minimizing the notion that it was wrong of Comcast to do that). |
