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Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?
netringer writes "The cable companies are planning to give the RIAA's case a hand and limit P2P file swapping. Yahoo has the Business Week story that cable companies are considering going away from the flat rate pricing model for cable Internet access. They plan to set a lower bandwidth cap for the flat rate and the raise the rates for bandwidth hogs who exceed the cap."
Or the cable cos get to lower prices for non hogs and gain more customers and of course DSL will probably go the same way.
I don't understand why people think they deserve flat rate when the cable cos all have to pay per useage for their uplink.
Why should I have to pay extra so you can download mp3s, movies and iso files when all I ever use my connection for is web browsing, irc, email and SSH? I'm quite happy paying $20 a month instead.
You want it you pay for it.. it's only fair.
I just turned WinMX on, gave high priority to all of the anime uploads, and then set GetRight to download as many episodes as possible. And it's not because I'm afraid that I'll lose my high bandwidth. It's because I feel like sending a nice little "fuck you" to Comcast while I still can.