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Time Warner Filtering iTunes Traffic?

Posted by Zonk on from the trial-has-begun-maybe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Starting on Thursday, January 31st, Time Warner subscribers in Texas starting experiencing connectivity issues to the iTunes store to the point where the service wasn't usable. General internet traffic issues haven't coincided with these problems, and many folks have reported that the store works as normal when they head to the nearest mega-bookstore and use their ISP instead. Time Warner has announced that they're going to begin trials of tiered pricing in one local Texas market, but I'll be darn sure to switch my provider if I hear the slightest hint of destination/content based tiers instead of bandwidth tiers."

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  1. For $1500/month by bagboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be happy to offer you dedicated - unthrottled bandwidth to the internet..

    Thank you,

    Your ISP

  2. Re:Never attribute to malice... by wik · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Because if it was, it was possibly the most incompetent attempt at traffic shaping in the history of the Internet.

    No, that coveted spot is already reserved people who truly do reshape traffic: backhoe operators and anchor-dragging boat captains.

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  3. Re:For $1500/month by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Wow only 200 GB? How can you survive?

  4. Re:For $1500/month by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

    ISP : "But look, this user could have connected any time he wanted, like, and that's just for last week, monday between 4:15 and 4:17 or thursday between 13:42 and 13:58 !"

    Judge : "Indeed, that user is clearly wasting the time of the court. 10 lashes ! Now tell me about how those tubes work again."

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