Time Warner Cable gives porn sites a boost

[RawAlex]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080117/D8U7KREO0.html

TW looks to be moving away from the "all you can eat" unlimited downloads and moving towards a tiered system, charging more as user use more bandwidth.

Dudley said that a small group of super-heavy users of downloads, around 5 percent of the customer base, can account for up to 50 percent of network capacity.

Effectively, it is probably one of the best ways for these operators to shut down or limit people's desire to use P2P networks. I think that capped network usage may in the end be a boost to regular porn sites, because people may move away from the P2P networks to avoid paying excessive bandwidth bills.

This is also a move that would be a slap in the face to Skype, Joomla, and other P2P style file spreading / bandwidth leeching services. It also sort of flies into the face of the Apple movie distribution via Itunes.

[MRock]

Wow! That gets a big thumbs up from me ... who'd have ever thunk the ISP could help in that manner

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by MRock

Wow! That gets a big thumbs up from me ... who'd have ever thunk the ISP could help in that manner

Yea.......I wouldn't go celebrating too quickly there.......I'll lay my money down for a bet that this ends up being worse for EVERYONE.


And since Comcast is quickly becoming a Defacto monopoly, we're all gonna suffer.
(Until Verizon rolls out the fibre....Spring of this year for us)

[MRock]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

And since Comcast is quickly becoming a Defacto monopoly, we're all gonna suffer.
(Until Verizon rolls out the fibre....Spring of this year for us)

Just got the FiOS last week ... 20mb up and down for $160/month ... was glad to get rid of Brighthouse cable

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by MRock

Just got the FiOS last week ... 20mb up and down for $160/month ... was glad to get rid of Brighthouse cable

WOW!
Tell me more about that.
Do they offer any other packages?

[MRock]

Yeah man, they have all kinds of packages ... you can get different up and download speeds. Check it out at Verizon.net I'm sure they will offer the same at every area.