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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.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
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.'"
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.