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In Japan, a 900 Gigabyte Upload Cap, Downloads Uncapped

Posted by timothy on from the no-such-luck-in-tennessee dept.

Raindeer writes "While the Broadband Bandits of the US are contemplating bandwidth caps between 5 gigabyte and 40 gigabyte per month, the largest telco in Japan has gone ahead and laid down some heavy caps for Japan's broadband addicts. From now on, if you upload more than 30 gigabyte per day, your network connection may be disconnected. Just think of it ... if you're in Japan and want to upload the HD movie you shot of yesterday's wedding, you soon might hit the limit. The downloaders do not face similar problems."

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  1. PLANNED: February 2009 HD laws in the US by myspace-cn · · Score: 1, Troll

    Now that everyone is being forced to upgrade their SD audio and video equipment to HD, these fascist corporations controlling our communications are imposing data caps.

    I say, this was their plan from the beginning to destroy alternative opinion, websites, and news.

    HD is NOT in the public interest, when only fascist corporate media will be able to afford to broadcast it.

    We have only to look at who controls the FCC.

    The web, internet is NOT prepared for the switch from SD to HD.

    It won't be long until the outright financial destruction of alternative news sources. It won't be long after that that ALL dissenting voices are silenced.

    Japan is a canary in the coal mine. An example. A footnote.