As Peter Griffin said, “What kind of world are we living in where we can’t even trust the oil companies anymore?” But it’s not just oil cartels that hold legal monopolies over billions of people. It’s communication industries. And if you don’t like the products they offer, if they shut you out, if they turn off your water and electricity and heat because you don’t like THEIR TERMS, THEIR PRODUCTS, AND THEIR SERVICE AGREEMENT, then you can go without it. That’s a free market, baby! It means you have no choice.

Naturally, the problem to this isn’t going to come through technology. We actually need to overthrow the state.

Are you fucking kidding me?

So you slow down your refilling of the pasta and salad bars so much that nobody gets a decent meal with pasta or salad, while leaving the desserts plentiful? I appreciate that ISPs need to shape traffic, but blanket shaping is the only way they can do it. And if they blanket shape, they need to make it very clear to their users.

if u have a 10mbps connection, figuring the above crap and other factors, be happy if you get 900kb/s…..

The real problem, however, is that they will now block http://www.demonoid.com’s site and trackers. Most of the quality torrents available online use demonoid. Now I cannot upload my stuff and my good torrents are dying.

I can still manage my accounts but whenever there is a good torrent, I cannot download it because it has the demonoid tracker in it.

For this, I will be switching to Cablevision. I live in NY, and most of the people in my county are using Cablevision or Time Warner.

Verizon DSL advertises 3mbs. I get 1mbs. Cablevision advertises 10mb, I get 10mb. Point is here, you give what you advertise or you don’t fucking advertise it at all.

FUCK YOU VERIZON AND STICK YOUR FINGER UP YOUR ASS, BECAUSE I’M SWITCHING TO CABLE.

Then, shouldn´t they just double their bandwidth, without immediatly start seeling higher speeds services to end users?

i mean… if they just got larger bandwidth, they should just remain seeling 8/10/20/(whatever) mbps connections they already have, instead of start seeling 20/30/40/etc mbps connections to clients.

In my case, just a few days ago my BT speeds where abou 600/800 KBps (steady!!), and now i´m lucky if i get 200KBps (dropping all the time).

I will just cancel my service, get another, cheaper isp, and in a few months get the other again, because i´ve notice that in the first few months everything is fine, and then they start Shaping.

Peace

For the people out there that are for the ISP’s…. get real is all I can say. We pay for what they claim to be giving us. Why don’t they tell the truth, scared we won’t buy? Scared someone elses “truth” will be better than theirs? That’s how it seems based on everything I’ve heard.

What if Water company began to limit. Yes, you’ve flushed too much shit down the toilet in the past week, so we’re going to cut your flow down to 5 flushes per week which WE feel should be acceptable so everyone else can flush theirs without a backlog. That’s about how stupid this sounds.

Give me what you say you’re giving me at the cost you quote me. So many have said that, but some of you don’t seem to be getting it. Is it so hard for ISP’s or any other company to actually – God forbid – do what they say they’re going to do? You call it illegal, how about giving some of us the right to see or hear something before we buy to make sure we want it? How about allowing us to download our programs when the software ( we’ve purchased and have codes for ) gets lost, stolen or damaged? Is it your business what I do with my damn connection? Don’t screw me for doing with my service in my home what I want. Does anyone do anything to you when you buy xxx videos 5 times a night on On Demand or PPV? I don’t think so. Why don’t people go after the kiddy perverts online instead and get rid of the real a-holes of the internet instead of wasting peoples time with this load of horse crap? I PAY, GIVE ME THE SERVICE IT SAYS I’M TO HAVE!!! Hell, I didn’t make the contract. Geez……..

Anyhow the debate on packet shaping will rage on. Packet shaping will just lead to real pirates getting rich those selling copied dvds etc bootleg of some other sorts. The fact is not everyone earns Benjamins or Euros or big currencies some earn toilet paper like myself such as ringgit. Where the hell could you afford anything original ?

The world isnt fair and even, but piracy bridges that gap. Normal Joe Blogs in Malaysia wants to watch 300 that isnt cut to shreds by their censorship board, and who cant afford the dvd that costs 20 to 30 USD. Whats the option?