Internet police

[nick_mjr]

So we got a letter from Charter yesterday. It said they know what I'm downloading and it's not cool. Some time ago, I tried (in vain) to torrent Tropic Thunder--it stopped at the 75 percent marker due to some weird error. Well I wonder if that had anything to do with the fact that it was being tracked by a 3rd party company representing Columbia

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[bulp]

I hear that in the pro tech circuit Charter is known for spying on customer's downloads, I believe there was even a lawsuit to it, but I am unsure of the status of the suit. There are also among the companies whom are testing out bandwidth limits somewhere in the fashion of cellular plans, but instead of measuring minutes, it would be gigabytes.

[nick_mjr]

yep, times are changin'. Now, I thought net nueutrality was supposed to prevent bandwith plans such as those, or am I completely wrong? Of course, net neutrality is something customers would prefer, but that doesn't mean it's an actual act of government that can regulate. Not yet anyway, right?

[bulp]

From what I've read it seems that the net neutrality has little if any say since the plans are supposed to help increase available bandwidth by forcing the hogs to slow down or pay more. Maybe the time will come when we have the technology to provide virtually limitless bandwidth to all equally.

[nick_mjr]

ah, I just need to look into more of the net debate here. My first impression was that companies were tyring to move in and exploit; but really I haven't dug into it much.