If you find yourself a bit addicted to downloading media files, here’s a warning for you. Cable Internet and entertainment provider Comcast has unplugged several subscribers for excessively downloading music or movies. However, the company declined to give specific headcount of violators.
Excessive here by definition is downloading either 1,000 songs or four feature films per day. Comcast believes these activities slow down the network, adversely affecting other subscribers.
Apparently, the term “unlimited Internet access†is now limited to those passionate people who get high every time they download. I can sense some chaos building up soon for this will surely irk thousands (if not millions) of users nationwide.
Originally posted on September 10, 2007 @ 7:25 am
“Excessive here by definition is downloading either 1,000 songs or four feature films per day.”
To be honest, that does sound like a rather excessive amount of downloading.
There are undoubtedly millions of Comcast clients who download some music and movies. But I doubt that thousands and thousands of clients are regularly downloading four movies or 60+ music albums per day.