When thousands of people illegally download books, music, or films, and their internet service provider knows about it but keeps collecting monthly fees from the pirates anyway, should the company face consequences? That’s the question at the heart of Cox […]
I mean… why do you think new speed bumps and traffic signals get added to neighborhoods? Same with adjusted speed limits.
That IS the engineers (well, the local government that employs them) being held accountable for dangerous roads.
For this? I have very serious concerns for all the obvious reasons. But ISPs 100% know what we are doing. Like… there is a reason that comcast et al basically have like a 1 gig upload on a 100 gig down connection. Same with bandwidth caps… which “worked” up until everyone was teleconferencing from home and watching 4k netflix.
And… considering comcast et al love to sell bundles for “unlimited bandwidth” or “symmetrical upload”… they are very much profiting off of piracy.
there is a reason that comcast et al basically have like a 1 gig upload on a 100 gig down connection.
Because they’re limited on channels and allocate more of them for increased download speed because most people upload very little data comparatively.
The bandwidth cap is just a pure money grab as they removed the caps during covid when everyone was video calling and sitting around online at home and ‘somehow’ their network handled it just fine.
I mean… why do you think new speed bumps and traffic signals get added to neighborhoods? Same with adjusted speed limits.
That IS the engineers (well, the local government that employs them) being held accountable for dangerous roads.
For this? I have very serious concerns for all the obvious reasons. But ISPs 100% know what we are doing. Like… there is a reason that comcast et al basically have like a 1 gig upload on a 100 gig down connection. Same with bandwidth caps… which “worked” up until everyone was teleconferencing from home and watching 4k netflix.
And… considering comcast et al love to sell bundles for “unlimited bandwidth” or “symmetrical upload”… they are very much profiting off of piracy.
Because they’re limited on channels and allocate more of them for increased download speed because most people upload very little data comparatively.
The bandwidth cap is just a pure money grab as they removed the caps during covid when everyone was video calling and sitting around online at home and ‘somehow’ their network handled it just fine.
None of this has anything to do with piracy.