Lights That Blink

Since Comcast is shutting off heavy internet users, why not just establish a daily cap? Or tiered pricing?

As I was posting the last blog entry, I thought, “Why doesn’t Comcast just establish a below 3 GB/day and 3+ GB/day services?”

If folks watch a lot of video, transfer tons of home movies, or…you know…pirate insane amounts of music, they can pay for it. Then those who just use the web for email, weather, and news would have a different rate.

I don’t know…I’m thinking out loud here…

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Sorry, I just can’t get too worked up over this kind of news:

Comcast Disconnecting Users Who Download More than 4 Movies a Day?

So much for so-called “unlimited” internet access.

Who downloads four movies every day?!?!

Could this be the next front in the war on piracy?

I’ve got no problem with someone downloading stuff from bittorrent…but sucking an average of four movies (or 60 music albums) per day from the web does seem a bit excessive and within the rights of Comcast to limit. No?

tags: broadband, comcast

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