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In article <ac3iss$mi5ci$1@ID-97594.news.dfncis.de>,
Augustus <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote:
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>"Unimpeachable Src" <squirrel@echelon.alias.net> wrote in message
>news:76f9684ac55413942690f206280a8b1b@anonymous.poster...
>> Sympatico Screws Self and Customers
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>This is probably just more a sign of things to come...
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>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.
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>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...
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>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...
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>And what can I say?  "Boo Hoo"?  You could just NOT do that
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>One guy complains that he likes to play games and watch streaming video...
>and worries that this'll affect him...
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>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
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>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.
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>Thats my take on it all...
>
>Clint
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And here I am stuck at T1 services offering Dial-Up
to Edmonton and area.

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