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RoadRunner Blocking Use of Kazaa
An anonymous reader submits: "You should know that RoadRunner is quietly blocking the use of Kazaa in
certain markets. Particularly in Texas, they have some sort of port scanner
in place which scans for Kazaa activity and then disables use of that port,
rendering the program completely useless. Grokster, iMesh, and all other
FastTrack programs are similarly affected. Yet RoadRunner is not disclosing
the practice in any way. Not only that, I'm troubled by the possibility of
them arbitrarily choosing to block other programs in the future. If this
becomes more widespread, they will have many angry (and former) customers." The poster provides these four links to forum postings with more information: one;
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IF they want to LIMIT my use then fine. All I want in return is a published and agreed upon committed information rate and I want a fucking rebate if they can't deliver it.
I am sick to fucking death of bandwidth providers telling me less is more, restriction is freedom and then not delivering on the bandwidth. How many of you people in restricted regions get BETTER service? How many get CHEAPER service? Is there ANY FUCKING BENEFIT you've received in return for having some of your rights stripped away?
And if they want to tell me that it forgoes capital investment to maintain their service levels, which they don't have anyway, then I want to see official proof. I want to see one damn scrap of paper they'd be willing to send to the FCC.
Otherwise RoadKiller?, Fuck Off. And the bird ya rode in on.
Please... come up with an original argument. This type of argument has been used in so many debates I bet it has a name. I'll give it a name: The fundamentalist's flawed formula. You'll hear this in every morality debate. The reason the formula is flawed is because it only works if the debater is fundamentally and indisputably correct. Look for negatives such as no, never, noone.
an example:
No one needs a handgun and they're only used to commit murders. I've never met anyone who's used handguns for anything but murder.
Law enformcement officers, rangers, hunters, soldiers, ranchers, sports shooters, and Buffalo Bill would all disagree.