On 21 Aug 2007, at 10:02, Clint Savage wrote:
If Comcast can block one particular protocol from being sent across
their wires, what's to stop them (or another major/minor ISP) from
doing it to other protocols/traffic. Since when is it illegal to use
bittorrent? Since when does an ISP have the right to say what types
of traffic I can send? Since when should I bow down to them and take
it?
Correct me if I am wrong, please. Let me be the devil's advocate for
a moment here.
<rant>
Since when is having a connection to the Internet a God given right?
You have no right to connect to the Internet. You did not build it.
It is not yours. Where do you get off thinking you have any right to
anything that you did not pay for and that was not promised to you in
whatever service agreement you made with whatever business you hired?
ComCast is a company. Your connection is their property and they can
do whatever they want with it. And unless you get up in their face
directly or have hold enough shares of their stock to make an
executive decision then you have no recourse and you have no right to
recourse, other than through the proper channels of their customer
service or corporate contact information.
What is all this talk of legality? What laws are there that say
anything about how your Internet connection should be provisioned and
controlled? God help us if we start putting laws on our Internet
connections. The more laws we have the less freedom we have. Having
too many laws takes away freedom of choice and the "right" we have to
work things out like the civilized beings we are supposed to be.
Quit whining and find a solution. Create your own ISP. Lose the
attitude of entitlement. You are not entitled to anything. Grow up
and start thinking like adults used to think. (In general, I find
"grown-ups" these days act more like five-year-olds, myself included.)
</rant>
Wow, that came out sounding a bit more harsh than I thought it
would. I must be having a good day. =) Take it or leave it.
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> start_flame_war.sh
> php run_and_hide.php
Cheers,
Jonathan
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