I kind of hope it does. Nothing will educate people about the difference between protocol and content like making a ton of customers angry by banning them without cause.
Nothing will educate people about the difference between protocol and content like making a ton of customers angry by banning them without cause.
When people think of torrenting copyrighted material as some sort of talent that they are proud to have (I've meet plenty of people who are actually feel proud/clever to torrent games/movies/shows) - they honestly think Comcast is/would be a bad company for disconnecting them.
At an undisclosed university they had a wireless system which you had to login with your university login. Students would login (thus giving the ability to track usage to the individual student) and torrent copyrighted material (they actually had to send out a campus wide email about it telling people to stop). That's how out of touch with logic people are. To my knowledge no student was prosecuted but if the RIAA/MPAA was angry enough I'm sure a lot of students would have a really bad day.
My point being - they won't be able to understand why the ISP is banning them - they will just think it's unfair.
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Hopefully this doesn't get people flagged as illegal torrent users by lazy ISPs.
I kind of hope it does. Nothing will educate people about the difference between protocol and content like making a ton of customers angry by banning them without cause.
When people think of torrenting copyrighted material as some sort of talent that they are proud to have (I've meet plenty of people who are actually feel proud/clever to torrent games/movies/shows) - they honestly think Comcast is/would be a bad company for disconnecting them.
At an undisclosed university they had a wireless system which you had to login with your university login. Students would login (thus giving the ability to track usage to the individual student) and torrent copyrighted material (they actually had to send out a campus wide email about it telling people to stop). That's how out of touch with logic people are. To my knowledge no student was prosecuted but if the RIAA/MPAA was angry enough I'm sure a lot of students would have a really bad day.
My point being - they won't be able to understand why the ISP is banning them - they will just think it's unfair.
My point is that in this case it will actually be unfair, and they'll get the weight of the tech community behind them rather than just being silly.
Extremely valid and good point . I hope too .