On 2003.07.14 12:15 Shannon Roddy wrote: > will hill wrote: > > >Some Cox lines, like mine, are noisy. It comes and goes. When it got > >really bad, I called them. They sent out a repairman with a noise meter. > >He replaced the line in my backyard and that helped some. After the Toledo > >FBI raids, I quit using my cable modem for anything but browsing and email. > > > > > > Toledo raids?
Yeah, some folks in Toledo violated their service agreements by uncapping their modems from time to time. The cable operator called in the FBI, who raided 27 people: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/06/27/1329248.shtml?tid=99 http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/22/013226.shtml?tid=123 I don't see a difference between this violation of service terms and any other, such as running ftp. The uncappers did not physically modify the modems, they simply reprogrammed them.
