Money is not only the only issue here. A big portion of the law requires radio stations to keep an unreasonable amount of records regarding the number of listeners at any given time, all kinds of information about the song. This alone would crush the independent (college etc.) radio stations that simply cannot afford to implement the infrastructure. What is happening is that independent stations will forced out of the market, while the big boys who can afford the equipment will serve to further homogenize American music.
I don't know about others, but Road Runner makes you pay the bill, BEFORE you receive the service. The way I see it, if I pay my $45, then I own the right to use their network for another month. I paid for it, it's mine, and I should be able to do with it as I please.
Someone mentioned plate sharing at a buffet, but cable modems are not like a buffet. There is a limit to how much you can get, I can use all of it myself if I want to. If I want to slow down my own connection by letting other people use it, that should pose no problem to TW.
What they are really trying to do is get more money (duh). They already get my money for TV and internet access (and you know they are traking what we watch on digital TV and what we look at on the internet.) I wish there was another broadband alternative to my cable modem, but they seem to have a pretty good monopoly going there. Does anyone have a better way to be a digital citizen without supporting Big Brother monopolies?
A lot of the latest versions of AudioGalaxy and such do you not give you the option to opt out of installing Gator. Besides, shouldn't you be doing school work at school instead of downloading mp3's or uninstalling software. Computers are in schools to use as a tool for learning, not for wasting time.
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Money is not only the only issue here. A big portion of the law requires radio stations to keep an unreasonable amount of records regarding the number of listeners at any given time, all kinds of information about the song. This alone would crush the independent (college etc.) radio stations that simply cannot afford to implement the infrastructure. What is happening is that independent stations will forced out of the market, while the big boys who can afford the equipment will serve to further homogenize American music.
They have been doing this on toll roads in US for some time now. There is nothing new about cameras recording people who don't pay the toll.
I don't know about others, but Road Runner makes you pay the bill, BEFORE you receive the service. The way I see it, if I pay my $45, then I own the right to use their network for another month. I paid for it, it's mine, and I should be able to do with it as I please.
Someone mentioned plate sharing at a buffet, but cable modems are not like a buffet. There is a limit to how much you can get, I can use all of it myself if I want to. If I want to slow down my own connection by letting other people use it, that should pose no problem to TW.
What they are really trying to do is get more money (duh). They already get my money for TV and internet access (and you know they are traking what we watch on digital TV and what we look at on the internet.) I wish there was another broadband alternative to my cable modem, but they seem to have a pretty good monopoly going there. Does anyone have a better way to be a digital citizen without supporting Big Brother monopolies?
Yeah, remove it.
A lot of the latest versions of AudioGalaxy and such do you not give you the option to opt out of installing Gator. Besides, shouldn't you be doing school work at school instead of downloading mp3's or uninstalling software. Computers are in schools to use as a tool for learning, not for wasting time.
So should magazine publishers also be alowed to opt out of un-requested archival in my bathroom too?