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Toledo Uncappers Getting Shafted

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mountains-from-molehills dept.

Jacob writes "Broadband Reports has a well written article detailing the plight of those Ohio cable modem users who found themselves facing gun wielding FBI agents for uncapping their cable modems. Buckeye Cable has clearly crossed a line and the tech community and consumer groups should be all over them like a wet, angry rag. Kudos to Broadband Reports for not letting this thing die." Granted, those who were indicted were violating their service contracts, but having their posessions siezed by FBI agents is overkill.

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  1. Spinning bodies by ryants · · Score: 5, Funny
    There's been a sig going around, something to the effect of solving the world's energy problems if we could just harness the rotational energy coming from Orwell's grave.

    I think we can add the Founding Fathers to that as well.

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    Ryan T. Sammartino
    "Ancora imparo"

  2. Re:Astounding.. by Spazholio · · Score: 5, Funny

    " I don't know maybe I sound juvenile but punishment for a virtual crime such as this seems like a total overkill..."

    I dunno man...if that's juvenille, than I don't know if a word exists for what passes for conversation here sometimes....

  3. Re:*SIGH* by antis0c · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly. Just like if I stole some twinkies from my local store so the police create a dragnet and shut down 12 city blocks.

    Its called Excessive Force.

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    ..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
  4. Re:Actually they were just being cheap. by muertos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not necessary. Anyone with sufficient technical ability can set a CMTS to only accept a few possible QOS configurations. Apparently, no one at Buckeye had the wondrous skill called "literacy" or the amazing object called "the manual". Cheap don't factor into it, these techs are stone stupid.