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Time Warner to Charge Extra for Over-Quota Bandwidth
duckygator writes: "I just came across this article on NetworkWorld discussing Time Warner's announcement that they will begin charging users a fee for exceeding a monthly download limit. The actual limits and associated fees aren't discussed. Guess I knew this would be coming sooner or later ... Now I guess I'll just have to guess where the threshold will be. Anything more than email? Active gamer? Graphic artist?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Kinda goes against the purpose of "broadband" doesn't it. Wonder if Comcast is next.
"I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX
ME: I'm calling to pay my cable bill.
Cable Operator: OK, we charge a $5 fee for paying over the phone, you can pay on-line for free.
ME: I can't pay online.
CO: Is your internet access down. ME: No, if I load the billing page, I'll go over my limit, and get charged an extra $5.
CO: I'm sorry I can't wavie the fee.
ME passes out due to bleeding from ears
You know who I think is crazy? All my ex-girlfriends!
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What do you think they are going to do when they are a little low on their expected revenue for the month?
"Let's see...we're about $60M short this month. That's 480 Petabits. Start the traffic generators early this month!"
:)
of course you can have it both ways.
less is more, ignorance is strength.
You signed on for cable service.
They're trying as hard as they can
to pave your on-ramp to the information
superhighway. But should these poor
ISPs be made to sit quietly by, while
software pirates and terrorists
steal their resources? For the love of the
Homeguard, what are they to do? They
have to stop them from stealing _somehow_.
And yet, when they try to simply make things
fairer, by fining these evil people who
go over the speed limit of AOL's internet,
what happens? Everyone trys to take advantage
of them, and wants to be paid less for not
speeding.
Should AOL/TW just sit around, and watch
it's hard-earned potential future profit projections? I think not. The piracy on
the internet has gone to far. And what about
those who spread the vicious propaganda that ISPs
are providing a connection TO the internet,
and not the internet itself? Well, I think
every right-minded citizen would agree that
they are little better than the terrorists
themselves.
(DISCLAIMER: It's a joke, mkay? SARCASM.)
-Slackergod
A colon, a semicolon, a comma, a hyphen, and a period; all in one sentence! If only you had worked those parens that followed shortly in earlier. Are you a grammar nazi too or something? :)
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Power to the Peaceful
> Aren't they always being shot at on Star Trek?
:-P
I think he meant that on Star Trek, they regularly have sex with attractive aliens, whereas geeks on this planet usually do not have sex with any living being.
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
That'd be great for the last few minutes of my CTF game where I have the flag and I'm running back to base to win the game only to have my ping jump to 500+.
mbbac
Any bets on how long it will be before we have to pay a per-minute levy to record companies and movie studios for all our Internet usage?
Of course, they'll make it "fair" by computing the fraction of total Internet traffic in the world that is piracy, and multiply that fraction by the amount they claim to be losing, so the fact that you're not using the Internet for trading music and movies will be "taken into account" in some average sense (like the Canadian CD-R levy).
Think that's absurd? That's what people thought of the blank media levies and the DMCA. But they're the law of the land now. Just wait...
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?