Quote Originally Posted by 'Blackguarde',index.php?page=Thread&postID=129523# post129523
You still come off as "the sky is falling!" attitude. Unless you are in that 1% then what do you care exactly? What exactly about this whole scenerio can you not get over?

1% of millions of customers is quite a bit if you want to get down to numbers. That ONE guy living on a street consuming 1000gb a month in warez and porn is screwing over everyone else on his cable card/node.

Tell you what. Come back when you've actually managed to break 250gb without downloading stuff you are not suppose to and then we can talk.
I think this is what pisses off most consumers with regards to the broadband companies. If you're so sure people are downloading pr0n and warez and shit, put your money where your mouth is: filter pr0n/warez/etc. traffic only and quit whining about the 1%. I mean, pr0n/warez traffic gone = problem 100% solved, AMIRITE? Now don't go saying you can't filter it because you can't tell which traffic is warez/pr0n and which is valid -- you just said you KNOW people are "downloading stuff you are not suppose to," so you can't have it both ways.

Of course, the way I see it, screw everybody. Let everyone make their choices and live with the consequences. As long as no monopoly abuses arise in certain markets, no harm no foul. True, unregulated/unstifled competition WILL fix any inequities.

Gawd, we could go on all week about why the broadband companies have made their own bed with the way they did the infrastructure upgrades as a capital venture, but most folks won't care about that. They'll just see themselves being punished for the wrongs of others.