A THIRD of bandwidth taken up by Netflix movie downloads

Daily Mail ^ | 28th October 2011 | By Daily Mail Reporter

[Steely Tom]

History has not accorded John D. Rockefeller his proper due, IMO. He was one of the greatest Americans ever. He provided a superior product (kerosene) to more people at an affordable price than all his competitors combined.

Ayn Rand tried to.

John Galt is a thinly-disguised version of John D. Rockefeller.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

———————In the spring, AT&T started limiting its DSL customers to 240GB per month, and its U-Verse customers to 400GB per month — a move that sources called a ‘Netflix Tax’.-——————

While it’s logical that users who use more should pay more, that’s no excuse for caps. I’ve noticed that many ISPs will do this crap where the bottom tier is not too much further away from the top tier in terms of bandwidth speed, but the price jump is considerable.

Capping is in my view the ISPs attempting to have it both ways. They have for years given people broadband internet usage without limits. Subscription cost is what it is, and the pipe is there to use no matter what you want to put in it. But instead of offering an incentive to their users, they offer disincentives. Instead of looking at their current offerings and noticing what’s wrong, they look at us as if we’re a bunch of thieves stealing their bandwidth.

This whole capping business is going to have the unintended consequence of an internet tyrant selling his dictatorship under the guise of neutrality. It’s sad to see it happen.