The day this gets announced, I will cancel my U-Verse service. Their customer retention department has already had to credit me with two months service ($300) for failing to provide reliable service, and this is just the nail in the coffin for me. And I'm supporting the EFF in their intent to file regulatory complaints against the ISPs for discrimination and abuse of their monopoly positions in most communities.
Right now, the RIAA is selling the ISPs a seductive message: "We'll pay you to get rid of your biggest bandwidth hogs." But the kickbacks won't last, and the number of "abusers" that the RIAA wants to target will quickly begin to hit the broadband companies right at the bottom line. Would you keep your expensive TV package once ATT canceled your UVerse data service? Not me.
Hopefully the ISPs will wise up to the BS that RIAA is selling them, but then again, maybe it's time for the consumer to flex their muscles a little bit and kick them where it hurts: the pocketbook.
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