[asterisk-users] OT: What do you guys think of this?

[RE Kushner List Account]

Alex Balashov wrote:
> RE Kushner List Account wrote:
>  
>> Doug wrote:
>>    
>>> Why the BitTorrent guys want to give themselves
>>> even a worse reputation is beyond me.  We tell
>>> our customers that they are not allowed to
>>> download copyrighted material.  But for other,
>>> legal BitTorrent transfers, we suggest that
>>> they use the scheduling feature of uTorrent to
>>> avoid high-traffic transfers during the day.
>>>
>>>         
>> Sieg heil! Sieg heil! Sieg heil! Give me the lash! We love the lash!
>>
>> I'd give you the finger if you told me as an ISP that I can't 
>> download CentOS 5 on DVD whenever I wanted, or to watch a Netflix 
>> movie I paid for. How you remain in business acting like a jack 
>> booted thug is beyond me.
>>     
>
> Mein overenthusiastic Oberreichskommendant,
>
> That doesn't seem like an entirely fair assessment of Doug's stated 
> policy.  :-)
>   

The question is, what are you actually paying for as a customer?  To 
discriminate against bits just because they actually use what they are 
paying for is beyond me.

At least a bandwidth cap is easier to understand. You get what you pay for.

-Ron