When you're are presented with the law-suit, Purchase all the CDs used and bring them to court, the RIAA wastes its money. Your lawyer even publicly appointed would have an easy time pointing out the laws that allow you these backups. Now you have the grounds for a wrongful prosecution lawsuit. Band together and at one point enough of these and you have a class action suit for wrongful prosecution. I'm sure some eager young lawyer would love making a mint tearing a piece out of the RIAA.
If he fought against AOL for not allowing customers to cancel their accounts, Pray-tell why did I have them denie me that over and over, and when I finally did get them to agree guess what... I got billed after supposedly "canceling"
I am a Comcast subscriber; I routinely fill the entire bandwidth of my 6Mb connection (768Kbps). I've filled this bandwidth from servers all over the world, I've also noted the connection is capable of going as high as FIOS (1.5MB down) though it is of course rate-limited. AT&T is quite frankly talking out of its collective ass on this one, as the other examples here have stated there are many options for this kind of bandwidth, Ever clean installed Windows then realized you need to do windows update, acquire drivers, acquire all the programs you had previously installed. How about a completely network based Linux install? How about downloading complete games over Valves Steam? What about streaming news. Beyond all this though we have to realize all of these connections regardless of service are fiber optic by nature up to the last mile. I for one welcome Verizon making in-roads that will force AT&T & Comcast into converting that last mile (or less in my case as I have fiber up to the curb). I do not enjoy paying the same price for 6Mb down / 384Kb up as someone with FIOS getting 15Mb down / 2Mb up and I doubt anyone else does either.
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When you're are presented with the law-suit, Purchase all the CDs used and bring them to court, the RIAA wastes its money. Your lawyer even publicly appointed would have an easy time pointing out the laws that allow you these backups. Now you have the grounds for a wrongful prosecution lawsuit. Band together and at one point enough of these and you have a class action suit for wrongful prosecution. I'm sure some eager young lawyer would love making a mint tearing a piece out of the RIAA.
If he fought against AOL for not allowing customers to cancel their accounts, Pray-tell why did I have them denie me that over and over, and when I finally did get them to agree guess what... I got billed after supposedly "canceling"
Nice April fools joke guys, :: claps ::
I am a Comcast subscriber; I routinely fill the entire bandwidth of my 6Mb connection (768Kbps). I've filled this bandwidth from servers all over the world, I've also noted the connection is capable of going as high as FIOS (1.5MB down) though it is of course rate-limited. AT&T is quite frankly talking out of its collective ass on this one, as the other examples here have stated there are many options for this kind of bandwidth, Ever clean installed Windows then realized you need to do windows update, acquire drivers, acquire all the programs you had previously installed. How about a completely network based Linux install? How about downloading complete games over Valves Steam? What about streaming news. Beyond all this though we have to realize all of these connections regardless of service are fiber optic by nature up to the last mile. I for one welcome Verizon making in-roads that will force AT&T & Comcast into converting that last mile (or less in my case as I have fiber up to the curb). I do not enjoy paying the same price for 6Mb down / 384Kb up as someone with FIOS getting 15Mb down / 2Mb up and I doubt anyone else does either.