TWC – Congressman: there should be a law against Internet caps! – ARSTECHNICA
ARS Technica 4-13-09
Time Warner Cable’s Internet usage caps, rolled out to more test markets last week, aren’t just generating controversy among the geekerati. With nearly unbelievable speed, in fact, the issue packed its bags and moved to Washington, DC. On Friday, freshman Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) pledged to introduce a bill called the “Broadband Internet Fairness Act” that would, in his words, “prevent job killing broadband internet downloading caps.”
[Comment: might as well start taxing internet sales too, while your at it. If your gonna bring the boom down on the internet at this time, in favor of the Corporate Rule of Time Warner / Disney / AOL, then just do it. But your customers will not sit around and watch you police our porn, or our video or our music downloads.]
The reek of Hades
In a recent article on ditching cable in favor of Web video, Steven Levy noted that he doesn’t “want to wind up in hell.” But if he does, “I anticipate finding my cable provider roasting alongside me. In fact, cable television service in general has a reek of Hades about it.”
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