--- Dennis Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are pay for X amount of bandwidth and you use > Y amount of > bandwidth, and Y > X then its probably stealing (its > just the way I > think about it). The ISP gave these people only so > much bandwidth, if > they take more then its stealing. One of the people > only uncapped for a > couple of minutes, what if I only stole a car for a > couple of minutes, I > doubt that person would be to happy about it (this > might not be the > greatest example). If you use a FTP server, you do > not take more then > your allocated amount of bandwidth, so I don't see > it as stealing, might > be against TOS but its not stealing. I do not agree > with the way that > the ISP dealt with the people uncapping, but I do > see how they can > justify uncapping as stealing, especially in a > market were every bit of > bandwidth cost money, and uncapping could cause a > company to pay for a > hole lot more bandwidth.
Read the fine print baby, it was all in the contract. Someone can hardly complain if they knowingly violate the terms they signed on for in an open market. This is not the same at all as the complaints about the shrink-warpped EULA's. These guys shopped around, bought services from people they were already hostile with, and then violated the contract. Gee, why didn't they just slap the guy's mom too. This is sort of a special case, read the articles. Sort of a hatfeild calls the fbi on th macoy's situation. Fun reading though, when are the brock's going to tear down Toledo? I'd pay money to watch that scrap! Doug ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
