arstechnica.com— Comcast wants to partner with other ISPs to craft a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" that will apply to both users and to ISPs. But will these "user rights" have any input from actual users?
Apr 15, 2008View in Crawl 4
I'm going to shoot you in the face. The police will intervene. The police and laws are set up by the government. Thusly the government is intervening in our situation.
1 You have the right to sit down, shut up, and take what we give you.2 You have the right to follow any arbitrary rules we decide to make up in the future with a smile on your face.3 You have the right to never complain about the fact that you have no choice in cable internet providers.
I'm curious where this is going. If Concast will grow up and behave responsibly then the work of thousands of people has reached a satisfactory conclusion. If the company uses this as another opportunity to abuse their customers then we know Concast hasn't changed one bit.I believe P2P is partly the reason Concast is also in the business of terminating people Internet Accounts as happened to my family over a year ago (www.comcastissue.blogspot.com). We've even posted a couple of videos on youtube about it. One in response to the many mailers the company has sent us to resubscribe with them. And no, we're not joining again after that crap.Anyway, it would be good to know if the content you are downloading is illegal. I think that's a great option. In many cases it's pretty obvious you shouldn't have it. But how can you tell in other cases? There should be some kind of database or something to help tip you off that it's not for distribution (no smart remarks ok... you know what I mean). Anyway, as long as Concast comes clean (finally) with their REAL policy then it will be a better world for all of us.Oh and for the youtube videos, search for me to find them. They are under user 'u235sentinel' ;-)Regards
It's not the ISP's job to patrol/filter what it's people are downloading and browsing on the web. That's a major disregard for net neutrality. It's the site owners job to do the filtering.
warchildbosniaApr 16, 2008
I hate Comcast!
drymaltextractApr 16, 2008
I'm going to shoot you in the face. The police will intervene. The police and laws are set up by the government. Thusly the government is intervening in our situation.
hypersapienApr 16, 2008
1 You have the right to sit down, shut up, and take what we give you.2 You have the right to follow any arbitrary rules we decide to make up in the future with a smile on your face.3 You have the right to never complain about the fact that you have no choice in cable internet providers.
u235sentinelApr 16, 2008
I'm curious where this is going. If Concast will grow up and behave responsibly then the work of thousands of people has reached a satisfactory conclusion. If the company uses this as another opportunity to abuse their customers then we know Concast hasn't changed one bit.I believe P2P is partly the reason Concast is also in the business of terminating people Internet Accounts as happened to my family over a year ago (www.comcastissue.blogspot.com). We've even posted a couple of videos on youtube about it. One in response to the many mailers the company has sent us to resubscribe with them. And no, we're not joining again after that crap.Anyway, it would be good to know if the content you are downloading is illegal. I think that's a great option. In many cases it's pretty obvious you shouldn't have it. But how can you tell in other cases? There should be some kind of database or something to help tip you off that it's not for distribution (no smart remarks ok... you know what I mean). Anyway, as long as Concast comes clean (finally) with their REAL policy then it will be a better world for all of us.Oh and for the youtube videos, search for me to find them. They are under user 'u235sentinel' ;-)Regards
raiderwolfApr 16, 2008
f**k Comcast
deathfiredApr 16, 2008
It's not the ISP's job to patrol/filter what it's people are downloading and browsing on the web. That's a major disregard for net neutrality. It's the site owners job to do the filtering.