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Charter tries to convince FCC that broadband customers want data caps
Charter Communications has claimed to the Federal Communications Commission that broadband users enjoy having Internet plans with data caps, in a filing arguing that Charter should be allowed to impose caps on its Spectrum Internet service starting next year.
Charter isn't currently allowed to impose data caps because of conditions the FCC placed on its 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable. The data-cap condition is scheduled to expire on May 18, 2023, but Charter in June petitioned the FCC to let the condition expire two years early, in May 2021.
With consumer-advocacy groups and Internet users opposing the petition, Charter filed a response with the FCC last week, saying that plans with data caps are "popular."
"Contrary to Stop The Cap's assertion [in an FCC filing] that consumers 'hate' data caps, the marketplace currently shows that broadband service plans incorporating data caps or other usage-based pricing mechanisms are often popular when the limits are sufficiently high to satisfy the vast majority of users," Charter told the FCC.
Or you could offer some kind of software that shows which users are hogging the network.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday August 13 2020, @01:54AM (3 children)
That came to an end pretty quickly. Now cell phones have larger free calling areas than landlines (what's a landline? Something you hang your laundry on to dry?)
You can ruin their business model - stop streaming shit. You won't die.
Or you can choose to be a slave.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @03:12AM (2 children)
I prefer to live in the gray between area. As in, option three. I could keep streaming shit and suffer (option one). I could stop streaming shit and not die, as you say. (Option two!)
Or I could "stream" it once. ..via bitorrent. After that, it's purely lan-traffic no matter how many times I re-watch it. For bonus points, the second-hand dvd/bluray collection can live in a box in my basement, without any damage-from-usage. They get paid, I get what I want, my physical copy stays pristine. everyone wins!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:04AM (1 child)
Except you possibly, because even if you have an owned physical copy, you are infringing copyright by uploading data to other people during your bittorrent.
Is it easy to rip Bluerays yourself, or do you need a specially hacked drive to do so?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @02:43PM
Let's be clear: I don't give a single fuck for their copyright. If the copyright owner disagrees with me, they're welcome to catch me if they can. The odds on that transaction are forever in my favor.
I make a point of paying for a physical copy because to my mind, that's the fair and right thing to do, and I sleep better knowing the books are balanced (balanced to my satisfaction, anyways; I'm sure the copyright owner would disagree). If someone else is getting copyrighted data uploaded from me to them during a torrent session, well, they can deal with their own sleeping problems, if any. None of my concern.
I can't be arsed to rip things myself, it's far less hassle to let a soi-disant 'expert' deal with the arcane bullshit of formats and encodings and aspect ratios and containers and codecs and so on and on etc. My sole exertion is to rename files to something that XBMC can parse while still being human-readable.