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Cable Firms Limit Users' Freedoms
Passacaglia writes "An article in the Washington Post reports that a coalition of companies, including Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, and even the BSA, have filed a report with the FCC complaining about how cable providers are placing restrictions on how subscribers use broadband access. This is in the wake of the recent FCC ruling that cable providers need not open their networks to competition from outside ISPs. The restrictions include limits on VPNs, servers, and many things that would make broadband really worth having." Meanwhile, TWC sent nastygrams to people it suspects are using unsecured wireless networks, skimming the info from the public database of wireless access points.
So wait a minute....Microsoft is behind the fight for broadband freedom? But they're evil! I know we rotate daily on hating the MPAA, but it seems like everyday is Microsoft-hating day.
Can't handle...ambiguitity...black and white viewpoint...blurring to gray...
Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums...
Great, so if I'm at a party at your house and I use your phone to call in a death threat to the President, you should go to jail for having an unsecured phone line, right? Retard.
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
How truely sad it is to see the Boy Scouts of America involved in something like this.
. Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.