Comcast is garbage

[s3cur1tr0n]

Were you downloading something illegal? If so then you can't complain when they cut off your service...

I sure can, it is not their place to monitor my traffic, it is the same thing as the phone company listening to your phone calls and upon hearing something offensive or whatnot they just decide to hang up your call. Fear not though your bill will still be coming in its bloated past-intro-offer form.

There's a difference between offensive and illegal. Your ISP can be liable if you violate intellectual property laws with your connection, they have every right to deny you service if you misuse your connection.

I do not dl illegal material. Mostly just old tv shows i missed. How do they have the right to infringe on my connection? I pay 70$ a month. and i dont even come close to the new 250 gb limit/ even though my contract was initiated during their UNLIMITED promotion.

 

[s3cur1tr0n]

Were you downloading something illegal? If so then you can't complain when they cut off your service...

Uh, yes he absolutely fucking well can. Comcast has no idea whether or not he was downloading illegal files; he was just using BitTorrent, which is 100% legal, and is only going to grow as media providers start to embrace the internet instead of fighting it tooth and nail. If Comcast could prove that he was downloading something illegal, then yes, they can say "that is not an acceptable use of our network" and shut it down. All Comcast knows is that there's traffic going through a port that is often used by p2p programs. He could be downloading a pirated movie, yes, or he could be downloading free online programming from the BBC, or he could be downloading a patch for World of Warcraft, or he could be downloading any number of other completely legal things. Comcast has no right to infringe on his ability to perform actions that are 100% legal.

Exactly!

 

[not a zaar]

Were you downloading something illegal? If so then you can't complain when they cut off your service...

I sure can, it is not their place to monitor my traffic, it is the same thing as the phone company listening to your phone calls and upon hearing something offensive or whatnot they just decide to hang up your call. Fear not though your bill will still be coming in its bloated past-intro-offer form.

There's a difference between offensive and illegal. Your ISP can be liable if you violate intellectual property laws with your connection, they have every right to deny you service if you misuse your connection.

I do not dl illegal material. Mostly just old tv shows i missed. How do they have the right to infringe on my connection? I pay 70$ a month. and i dont even come close to the new 250 gb limit/ even though my contract was initiated during their UNLIMITED promotion.

How do they have the right? You probably gave them the right when you signed one of those long winded contracts that only lawyers can understand (and that nobody actually reads.) You'd be surprised what rights you give those companies when you sign those things.

 

[AuntyEthel]

He could be downloading a pirated movie, yes, or he could be downloading free online programming from the BBC, or he could be downloading a patch for World of Warcraft, or he could be downloading any number of other completely legal things. Comcast has no right to infringe on his ability to perform actions that are 100% legal.

And many artists release cd's/movies/etc into Creative Commons, where they want people to torrent their files and spread the love. Banning/cutting off P2P destroys the potential for many people to spread their files and create awareness for their projects.

 

[Bob Saget]

I used to get kicked offline whenever I used to download things that weren't even on BitTorrent. I was downloading Pirates Vikings and Knights from their site for example, and my connection would just die until I reset the modem. I thought it was Comcast, but then I took my old clunky Netgear wireless router/switch out of the picture, hooked my computer directly to the modem (so my mom doesn't get internet on her computer anymore, boo hoo) and everything works perfectly. So try that, it might actually work.

 

[s3cur1tr0n]

He could be downloading a pirated movie, yes, or he could be downloading free online programming from the BBC, or he could be downloading a patch for World of Warcraft, or he could be downloading any number of other completely legal things. Comcast has no right to infringe on his ability to perform actions that are 100% legal.

And many artists release cd's/movies/etc into Creative Commons, where they want people to torrent their files and spread the love. Banning/cutting off P2P destroys the potential for many people to spread their files and create awareness for their projects.

Exactly my point.