Comcast's arguement that it needed to throttle access never held water, so this came to no surprise to me. The fact that only a few customers using what they paid for was what virtually brought down its network shows that Comcast over-sold its capacity. Those people weren't using more bandwidth or downloaded more than unlimited data, so saying what Comcast's "data management" is reasonable would be irrational. There is no legal way for Comcast to claim otherwise. There is no way to say it was preventing illegal activity without partaking in illegal activity itself.
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Garst @ Aug 1st 2008 4:50PM
Comcast's arguement that it needed to throttle access never held water, so this came to no surprise to me. The fact that only a few customers using what they paid for was what virtually brought down its network shows that Comcast over-sold its capacity. Those people weren't using more bandwidth or downloaded more than unlimited data, so saying what Comcast's "data management" is reasonable would be irrational. There is no legal way for Comcast to claim otherwise. There is no way to say it was preventing illegal activity without partaking in illegal activity itself.