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Time Warner ToS Changes Could Mean Tiered Pricing, Throttling
Mirell writes "Time Warner Cable has recently changed their Terms of Service, so that they are allowed to charge you at their discretion via consumption-based billing. They were shot down a few months ago after raising the wrath of many subscribers and several politicians. Now they're trying again, but since they make exclusions for their own voice and video not to count against the cap, this could draw the attention of the FCC."
While I despise regulation of any free market
What is this mythical thing you speak of? The only free market is one where the "haves" are permitted to collude to strip the "have nots" of their money however they wish.
The oft quoted, always misunderstood supply & demand curve only applies when there are no barriers to market entry -- hardly the case where any infrstructure at all is needed. Prostitution is about the only profession that meets this criterion.
Karma be damned, but....
Nobody in the U.S. cares about Australia's situation with bandwidth. No one. Not me, not the guy down the street, not some IT guy in Silicon Valley. You're comparing oranges to apples. Australia is an island nation, and when compared to the U.S., very few English websites are hosted there.
Fuck the RIAA. Data is free. All of that piracy bullshit is just lies fed to your idiotic brainwashed mind. The same companies that steal billions of dollars from the government and by extension, the people, are crying over people in a shitty economy downloading some data. And no, its not theft. Fucking assholes. No artist has ever not been able to put food on his table because someone downloaded their album instead of buying the cd, so cry me a fucking river.