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Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers"
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a great Associated Press story on Comcast's invisible caps. The company has been threatening and then cutting off customers who 'abuse' their so-called 'unlimited' service by downloading too much. But Comcast won't reveal what the limits are. DSL Reports has been tracking this for a while, and it's good to see the mainstream press catch on."
Not sure how widely known this is, but Comcast is a Microsoft company. So, if you're wondering why they engage in senseless, draconian authoritarianism...now ya know why!
DSL has been berry berry goot to me. SO, if you have a choice do yourself a favor! Personally I use Earthlink DSL and they pretty much leave you to your own. I've been running websited, ftp, news. The only hurdle I haven't taken on is as of yet is getting sendmail working. The only port they block is 25. I send linux isos from work to my home ftp server and other large files on a frequent basis. My friends also download said those same iso's and in over a year and a half not a PEEP out of them about bandwidth hogging!
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
nice psudocode dumbass, it should be
if( $provider_caps_unlimited_service && $date_contract_expires time() )
there's no limit to how much you can download.. its how much you can d/l in one month. So you have unlimited downloads, as long as u subscribe for long enough ;)
Wouldnt you like to be a pepper too?
Member-owned cooperative, eh? Why don't you just put up a big sign that says communist hippies. I'll take my corporate anal-raping like an patriotic American any day.