You’re forced to download a movie because there cable movies suck, they charge 5.99 to 10.99 for on demand movies which is ridiculous.

Now Rogers in Canada is awesome, there price is very good, there constantly playing, not so old but almost newly released movies which comcast are renting for 10.99.

Oh yea, soon soon I’m going back to Canada, there awesome ppl. And Canada do not hype n gripp on you about downloading movies, which you really don’t need to cuz they play it on there basic channels anyhow.

Canada You RoxXXXX!!!!!!

Stop your bitching, now.
You don’t have 60 gb monthly limits. Most of your ISP’s don’t throttle bit torrent.
Come to Canada. Then you’ll have something to bitch about in terms of internet!

Thankfully, I’m on MTS in Manitoba, but there are some places here that use bell and shaw. At my parents, shaw is what they use. They throttle bt like crazy, even with incription set to forced. (Unless I get a hole pile of torrents going).

When will someone (Congress?) take on the providers and force real competition? Where I live, it’s Comcast or nothing for cable and internet. Why can’t I choose between them, TWC, Optimum, whomever? It’s like the days of Ma Bell all over again.

crap man. move to Canada and see how you like that! I’m on Rogers who most definitely throttles bittorrent traffic to a ridiculous degree and you have to pay top dollar to get 95 gigs up and down combined/mo.. no higher package even.

Somebody who is a member of the class (somebody who had comcast and was throttled) should challenge the settlement and claim more cash.

It’s as easy as contacting the attorneys and expressing your dissatisfaction. Attorneys will then have to renegotiate the settlement.

I am 27 years old. I am old to enough to remember a time without the internet but equally I am young enough that I now spend more time on the internet than any other pursuit. I am not a coder, designer or developer but I know at least one.

Whenever I travel I take with me a portable hard disk, possibly 2 or 3, and it’s normal for me to trade hard disks with those that I meet to share media, music and files.

I have owned more mobile phones than I can remember and subscribe to two or more photo sharing sites. I have created numerous online social profiles but really only use one of them daily. If I had to guess then I estimate that I have signed up for 4 or more email accounts in the last few years and possibly between 10 and 20 forums. My email inbox has recieved well over 50 ‘confirm by clicking this link’ emails.

I have used instant messaging from the days of MSN thorugh to the many flavours that exist today. I use the internet to bank, organise, flirt, store and research. I use one of the big 3 internet browsers.

I still rely mainly on Microsoft for everything but I know about Linux, BitTorrent and the rise of Google Open Source.

But none of that is important. Let me tell you what is important.

I will not be made to pay for the internet or it’s services by anyone. I will not pay extorbitant prices for software, media or the support they require.

If you insist on trying to charge me then I will find alternatives sources (the internet is vast, your company is not) and if alternative sources are blocked then I will steal what I need. It may be unethical but so are gross profit margins. I will use new technologies that you have not considered.

I will do this because I am the future. If you prevent my technology from accessing the data it needs then my friend will invent new tehcnology and if he can’t then a Korean, Russian, Brazilian or another citizen of this world will distribute the software that is required.

The internet has spawned a generation that has come to expect fundamental truths and we consider these truths self evident.

It shall be heard that open source is king, data is free and the laws of the market economy are to be rewritten. Despite my disregard for your manipulation of the law I am more then wiling to purchase content if

A) The price is fair
B) Your company acts ethically towards it’s consumers
B) The application or service is of value

If either of these conditions is not met then I will still use your program except you will never know it. If you want my business then make sure your product is accessible, portable and works across all of my platforms. I am run this relationship, not you. The sooner you comprehend that the sooner I will stop stealing your intellectual property. If you try to use the law against me then I will circumvent it. If that is not possible then a lawyer from my generation will represent me for free.

If you don’t believe me then ask yourself this – who will be in charge when you are gone?

The answer is me, the answer is Generation Web.

Yes, I am a copyright pirate and I don’t care whose idea Windows 7 was.

Comcast should be setting realistic limits on their packages if they’re unable to handle the demand and leave it at that (if the issue were really about consumption issues, that is…).

LOL Good point music parasites predator!

Hahaha! It is Music parasites predator again!

You see, this is easy. Me too I can pull this crap! The problem for you is nobody is duped you moron!

Only one poster with same IP adress!

A troll from the corporation of parasites.

BUSTED!

Pirates “Dirty scoundrels Comcast throttled my connexion to stop me dloading free stuff- I wan’t compensation”

kinda hypocritical really

I agree totally with you on this. $16 is risible and after settlement fees there will be nothing left for their users.

Let them invest the whole amount to updating their service and giving ALL user uncapped usage.

The internet should be a clear pipe.

The legal remedies against alleged misuse should be fought out elsewhere.

Rage against the corpocracys and MAFIAA dinosaur lampreys.

The funny thing is, Comcast peers have been some of the fastest peers I come across in swarms these days, it almost reminds me of back in the good old days – like a few years ago – before virtually ever ISP out there started tampering (most do, but they’re subtle about it – see “how to boil a live frog”).

There really should be some form of neutrality laws set down, because as time goes this game is going to get a lot worse (not just BitTorrent related by any means).

TorrentFreak ? look into it and give is the story !

Do they read the comment s ?

[Thanks - slight error when coding in the links, fixed now - Ben]

Doesn’t matter as the lawyers are the ones going to make out on this one.