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Augustus - Stick to making Afford. Sites, And Shut
Your Pie Hole!

Just because 5 gigs a month is plenty for your "Services"
and needs - doesn't mean it's enough for everyone.

I run a gaming server to provide online entertainment to
people who are always downloading new maps and
voice packs etc ... and 5 gigs can be chewed in hours,
forget about days.

I suggest people should start Fighting Back!
1st - Switch Internet Providers
2nd - Ditch Any Services Offered By "Bell"
         (Long-Distance, Call Waiting etc)

Because as long as there are "Augustus's" out there,
The Monopolies of the world will always be putting
Strangle-Hold's on us. And, if we let them get away
with this - wait and see what's next!

You are now all considered "Warned" - Fight Back!

"Augustus" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote in message
news:ac3iss$mi5ci$1@ID-97594.news.dfncis.de...
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> "Unimpeachable Src" <squirrel@echelon.alias.net> wrote in message
> news:76f9684ac55413942690f206280a8b1b@anonymous.poster...
> > Sympatico Screws Self and Customers
> <<SNIP>>
>
> This is probably just more a sign of things to come...
>
> 10 years ago, you had your choice of dialup ISPs that offered unlimited
time
> online per month for $15-25...
>
> As the internet's popularity rose tho, ppl were spending more and more
time
> online... companies that were making a hefty profit started losing money,
> because they had to keep buying more and more bandwidth to meet up with
> their user base
>
> Then... slowly these companies started going out of business or merging
with
> other companies... these unlimited packages were being dropped by almost
> everybody, save for a few hold outs still out there.
>
> Just as times changed from back then, they are changing now...  high speed
> internet (cable or dsl) has risen in popularity, and more and more people
> are switching to it... but more and more of these users are experienced
and
> know their way around the internet
>
> So that means more and more of them aren't just getting dsl or cable to
surf
> the net and chat on ICQ and send email to friends... but are watching
> streaming video, downloading vast quantities of porn and sharing warez and
> mp3s over many of the services now available.
>
> All this means more and more people are using up more and more available
> bandwidth... the companies have to accomodate... allocating more
> resources... buying better machines... buying more bandwidth... upgrading
> hardware...
>
> Effectivly, they are billing just the users who are using up their
> resources... 5GB is alot to use up in a month... you can download a couple
> of DVDs, a couple of games, thousands of porn pics, and still have lots
left
> over to surf the net with...
>
> But, if you are going to sit there and run a file server on irc, or set up
a
> warez/mp3 trading server for kazaa... then yeah, you are going to pay for
> it...
>
> And what can I say?  "Boo Hoo"?  You could just NOT do that
>
> One guy complains that he likes to play games and watch streaming video...
> and worries that this'll affect him...
>
> To use up 5GB, he would be able to watch abou 125 hrs of continual high
> quality streaming video... and play play about the same in online games...
> or about 10 straight days of continual, non-stop heavy computer usage
>
> It all boils down to: for legit use, you should have no problem at all...
if
> you are pirating video games and movies off the net, then yeah, you got a
> reason to complain cuz you'll be limited in how much you can download a
> month... but then, you don't have any ground to really stand on... maybe
> everybody does it, but nobody sympathizes with a pirate.
>
> Thats my take on it all...
>
> Clint
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