BrianDamage
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| reply to NYCNotPir8
Re: What are the terms of the contract?
Redistribution is a gray area. This is why they are making such a fuss.
Like was explained, when compared to other services, like cellphone usage, where you get xxx number of minutes per month, it is yours to do with what you please. Anyone you choose could use the minutes because you paid for them.
Same as the analogy with PPV movies, etc.
Did anyone out there order the Lewis-Tyson fight and invite 10-20 friends over, drink beer, and eat while watching Lewis pound the snot out of Tyson?
The service was yours to do with as you please (view it at your discretion). Are they going to come out with some provision that says that you are "illegally distributing" the fight to your friends because none of the rest of them ordered or paid for it, or because you paid for it and then took a collection to help defray your personal expense?
That's the way things are going to be if we let this company succeed over this person in question.
Corporate control over dissemination of consumer protections for the sake of grubbing up every last penny must be halted, this company's argument dissolved, and the solution made public so that they can be made an example of.
There are provisions that disallow certain activities because of the causitive damage potential.
If they can prove such damage(s) have occurred then more power to their argument.
If the motivation is strictly greed, then it is baseless.
I will not have a provider tell me that I can't do what I want with a service I've paid for.
If I order DSL and want to run a NAT router spoofing DHCP addresses to 10 computers behind it, then that is my business, and no one else's.
Same with the 802.11 argument.
As long as no network outages or real degradation in the performance of the network is noted and documented, then no cause exists to pursue, aside from the greed associated with their motivation.
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