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ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping

W33dz writes "News.com has an article detailing how some ISPs are now capping bandwidth usage by some of their high end users. Comcast claims this is an attempt to create better speeds for their average users, but you can't help but wonder how much of this is in response to the RIAA's subpoenas. Interestingly enough, there is no set limit, but just a subjective limit of 'more than the average user.' The World Tech Tribune has an article on the same topic."

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  1. Re:Throttle it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GRUB: SHUT YOUR FUCKING WHOREHOLE


    using caps is like shouting and that is what I intended, you bitch.

  2. Re:Throttle it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    your joking... Whant real speed to load a web page? Mate I whant speed to DL movies ISO's and music and ofcourse a good ping for gaming... Ohh and streaming or FTP'ing or whatever other nonsence I can think of... A silly page loaded a few seconds faster BIG DEAL.

    Oh BTW no complaints bout caping (or port blocking) here www.nildram.co.uk .PPL use your head, a provider sucks choose another one.

  3. Re:old news, Comcast is really sucky lately. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I loved the note on my door on Friday: "Please note that we will be inspecting your cable outlets on Monday with your landlords permission, please move all furniture out of the way." How about no.

    Lemme guess- you have a hacked cable box so you can steal PPV pr0n, and you don't want comcast to know about it. Am I right?

    Thats not much of a reason to be mad at comcast- after all, YOU are the one stealing cable...

  4. THROTTLE MY CUM YOU SLASHBOT TROLL WANNABE FAGGOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FAG!

  5. Re:old news, Comcast is really sucky lately. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That is no excuse for stealing, MORON!

  6. Re:Throttle it. by IM6100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What you typed there almost implies you feel we should stop paying artists.

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  7. Re:Throttle it. by alex_ant · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Basically you want the entire Beatles back catalog, no no, all music ever recorded, in 96kHz 24-bit uncompressed 6-channel PCM for $1. Get over yourself. Heavy piracy is an indication of NOTHING except the convenience of and lack of consequences for getting something that costs money without paying for it. If an album at the iTunes Music Store cost $5, you'd be bitching about how it didn't cost $4, and if it cost $4, you'd complain that it didn't cost $2.50. And if it cost $2.50, you'd be outraged that it weren't free, except for the cost of bandwidth. You know what? I think a Ferrari F355 should cost $7.50. Guess what? What I think a Ferrari F355 should cost doesn't mean a god damn motherfucking thing.

    I have no idea how your voodoo math with regards to CD and digital music prices is supposed to work, and I have no desire to take the necessary hallucinogens that would enable me to understand. My suggestion would be to stop being such a spoiled twit and learn up on market pricing.