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Comcast should be sued...again.
Remak:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 19, 2012, 06:11:49 PM ---o.o how about my country's wireless broadband's hidden policy "the first 3months you get an up to [insert mbps here], after that you're throttled to an up to [insert kbps here] but calling the call center about the slow speed will get you back up to your rated [insert mbps here] for a few hours."
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What company is that :-\
kitamesume:
smart, globe, sun, wifi-tribe, anything tied with the wireless broadband regime... if you're lucky enough that your area doesn't have much subscribers in it then they won't have much reason to trottle you.
AnimeJanai:
The lack of successful lawsuits is worrisome because it means those tactics may thus be interpreted as being legally usable tactics to "punish" users. For example, take the current tactics and, say, tweak it to do another 25% more "detriment" to the user. Now, that would be punishment. Graduated punishment levels then could range from 25% to 50% for example.
This type of punishment without removing the user's internet access means Comcast can punish the user while retaining the monies paid. It's worrisome to a company if a punishment program causes users to leave to a different company. However, the big ISPs and intellectual property companies have come up with a working solution. They will share information thru a third party firm database. Thus, users have no where to run because the other ISPs using that same database will assess the same level of account punishment.
This plan and its initial costs were underwritten by the RIAA, MPAA, and various other intellectual property protection companies. Their goal was to make it as easy and least costly as possible for the big ISPs to cooperate. The first steps will be implemented JULY 1, 2012 as indicated in the news URL below:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/
JarieSuicune:
I dunno about the whole comcast thing, but that last post's link... how does BakaBT expect that will affect itself? Does that mean BakaBT is effectively dead in the U.S. in less than a month?
kitamesume:
not just bakaBT, anything P2P related is effectively killed since sharing files of unknown origin is officially tagged as piracy >,> not to mention 99% of download-able files will become nulled and google images will become blocked.
edit: not to mention firefox/chrome's habit of pre-downloading pages beforehand for faster page-loads... thats one heck of a sue party.
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