Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy

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Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy

Posted by chrisd on Sunday June 9, 2002 @08:00PM from the coaxial-cable-customer-craziness dept.

raindr writes "The Detroit News has this article on how comcast is going after people with modified Cable TV boxes.These fines (170k) seem a bit much to me." They apparantly send out a "bullet" to deactivate modded boxes. In other coax news,Shynedog writes "Boston.com is running a story about AT&T broadband users in the Northeast who are complaining about the unfair price hike that has been imposed on subscribers who own their own modems. It the wake of recent customer complaints, AT&T has started offering coupons to offset the monthly increase, but only for the next six months."

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better be good by freddej · 2002-06-09 20:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well, you havent seen nothing yet I'll say
I like ATT by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-09 20:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I have stock in them, and without it, I would not be able to attend college ;) Let them do what they will!
maybe if they go through with this... by packeteer · 2002-06-09 20:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...they might be able to scare a good amount of would be theaves off...

..maybe itll just trample our rights...

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1. Re:maybe if they go through with this... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-09 20:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Our rights?
  
  Our rights does not include being common thiefs
  and steal services that we have not paid for such
  as cable tv...
Re:I like ATT - Troll Alert by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-09 20:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What a Troll.

yahoo finance says that the dividend yield of AT&T is 1.32, so you only get 1.32% of your cash every year. There is _no_way_ that this can affect your schooling. If you're short of cash, you'll get more from an interest bearing account, and if you're really short of cash, use the capital instead.

What's that smell? Ditchwater?
Re:Just forget about tv, its not worth it by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-09 20:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Argh, I wish I could delete my post. I fell for a troll, and a bad one. My bad.
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What is going on? Please read this... by phunhippy · 2002-06-09 20:40 · Score: 1, Offtopic

OK I'm really confused now.. I got this email from the post above I placed saying someone has give modded me up +1. So i go back to look at all the comments and choose to read at level 3 to see my post easier.. Gee at the time now(10 mins after i got the email) there are no level 3 posts..
Ok i'm thinkin i'll go to my preferences & see how/why it was modded back down. Well I go there and there is nothing listed for that comment as rated +1 interesting as the email tells me or anything bringing it back down to 2.

So what gives? Are the slashdot editors lowering comments they don't like or approve of?

heres the email headers below.. and i still haven't got any email sayin I was modded back down.. Seriously what gives here?

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1. Re:What is going on? Please read this... by phunhippy · 2002-06-09 20:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  And now i've gotten 2nd email saying its +1 again.. lets see if that one sticks or magically dissapears like the first
2. Re:What is going on? Please read this... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-10 04:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  If the person that moderated your comment up subsequently posted a comment of their own to the article then the moderation would be undone.
Re:Common sense? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-09 23:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Thanks. Now you tell me.

John Gotti
Re:Some corrections to the first articles by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-10 03:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And another fool gets modded up.
Re:YOU WIN! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-10 05:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Moderation is not a measure of how much you agree with someone's post.

s,is not,is not supposed to be,