On 04/12/2010 11:17 AM, Steven Alligood wrote: > In fact, the same thing applies to Comcast and blocking any and all > ports that they deem abusive. If their business model precludes your > torrents, then find another ISP. And don't argue that you cannot; the > Internet is NOT a basic human right, nor is TV, cable, or even frozen pizza.
I think what we're talking about is not basic rights, but rather truth in advertising. People have certain reasonable expectations about what they are going to get when they buy Internet service. Nearly every ISP violates those expectations in subtle ways, but currently, the only way to discover all the limitations of an ISP is to buy the service for a while and bump into problems. That is lying to customers. Similarly, it sounds like Sprint is forging DNS responses. I believe that kind of forgery should be considered as illegal as any other kind of forgery. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
