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Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs
Ars Technica reports that Comcast has been hit with three new class-action lawsuits due to the company's traffic-shaping practices. "The lawsuits ... ask that Comcast be barred from continuing to violate various state laws, in addition to unspecified damages." Meanwhile, members of the US House Telecommunications Subcommittee have asked Charter Communications' president to stop testing a program which uses Deep Packet Inspection to track the habits of its customers. A number of privacy groups have voiced their support (PDF). As if that weren't enough, it seems the City of Los Angeles is suing Time Warner for fraud and deceptive business practices. The Daily News notes, "... the City Attorney is seeking $2,500 in civil penalties for each violation of the Unfair Competition law as well as an additional $2,500 civil penalty for each violation described in the complaint perpetrated against one or more senior citizens or disabled persons."
Oh come on... Why mod me as troll?
Just an innocent first post. Of all my years at Slashdot, this is the first time I had the chance. Don't expect me to waste it.
I rather be free in hell than a slave in heaven.
The bandwidth shapers of course. The crack dealers aren't rippin me off.
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Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
woke up in the wrong universe. In my universe customers are sued all the time.
Hi there guys, I'm very new here.
Would it be ok for the USPS, FedEx, UPS, and DHL to all practice opening your packages and throwing out stuff to make it easier (cheaper) to deliver your package?
They already do charge by weight to make stuff easier and cheaper to deliver, you raving neo-Bolshevikite/Trotskyite anarcho-communo-crypto-statist Marxo-Marxite-Marxist retro-phyto-gangreno-Guevarite proto-postulo-pappado-vivido-pappado-pappado-vivido-Blarite/Brownite-Barakist/Clintonite unreconstructed loon.
Well, besides the fact that drug USE is, by and large, a victimless crime? I vote to go after the bandwidth shapers. Crack dealers have to compete for customers/victims; at least in Atlanta.
PS: I'd love to see crack-dealer-style competition of gunning each other down amongst the cable/internet pimps...
"Democracy." It's just a slogan.
I want them going after bandwidth shapers. They don't have jurisdiction over the CIA.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well shit, I better revoke my shareholder proxy in time to show up at the next election and demand that they stop this tomfoolery at once!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Stop hating companies. If they really were making false or deceptive claims, the vulture lawyers would have tried to rake the company over for all that they are worth. If your position is right, it would be too easy!
No kidding, you would have expected to see at least two, maybe even three, class action suits by now.
That's what happens when you live in a socialist country like the Netherlands. Here in the good 'ole USA, we have capitalism to make sure there is good competition to keep prices low. Wait, what?
Ah! Alice deals in drugs! I have been wondering for years why she runs all that crypto. Now it all makes sense.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Wow. Three cliches in one!
Good point, BTW.