Monday, July 25, 2011

Comcast bans man from Internet for using too much data

Comcast needs their arrogant corporate ass kicked.

It is part of the effort by IPs to cut us off from the Net so we will have to keep buying their overpriced cable services.

They've already succeeded in neutering Netflix in Canada*.

The end of the internet comes not with a bang or a procession of four lolcats of the apocalypse, but just with two blinking lights on a modem.

At least that's how it came for Andre Vrignaud, a 39-year-old gaming consultant in Seattle, when Comcast shut him off from the internet for using too much data.

Vrignaud, it seems, committed the foul of using more than 250 GB of data on Comcast two months in a row, triggering the company's overage policy that results in a year-long ban from using its services.


Read more here.

* it was so bad in fact I canceled my subscription to it yesterday. Well done cable companies, you succeeded in your goal of making us hate you just that much more.

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