online.wsj.com — Washington -- Federal regulators are set to announce this week that Comcast Corp. wrongly slowed some of its customers' Internet traffic, in a victory for consumer groups and high-tech companies that have fought to keep Web traffic free from interference. The Federal Communications Commission will rule that the cable giant violated federal policy
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theconcretelionJul 28, 2008
if you are a monopoly you don't give a s**t about bad press.
paulotJul 28, 2008
They are going to introduce plans to limit your bandwidth (cap it at 50GB-100GB/month). If you go over the limit, you're charged $1-$10/gig, similar to how cell phone companies do it with cell phone minutes. So sure, download all the movies and music you want - instead of paying the RIAA/MPAA, you'll have to just pay the Comcast fees. Oh, and their response to this will be.. "oh, you don't have to use Comcast. You have a choice between service providers." Yeah, my choice is Comcast or AOL dial-up (if they still even offer that), so I pretty much have no choice thanks to the monopoly Comcast has.
logandurandJul 28, 2008
I would imagine so, sadly.
Closed AccountJul 28, 2008
Apartment complex had a deal with Comcast and the only other alternative was DSL or dial-up until FIOS came through in March.
kibbledbitsJul 28, 2008
"I just got internet from my staff that was sent yesterday, why? again the internet is not some truck!""it's a Series of Tubes"
naisanzaAug 10, 2008
my internet = my neighbor('s)