Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Stupid Downing Street Petition of the Day Award

Today it goes to.... Banning ISP download caps
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ban Broadband Providers to remove the Download Cap. What gives the ISP the right to impose a cap on how much you can download a month?
Odd grammar aside, perhaps the fact that you're accessing the Internet across their DSLAMs, their network, and their own bandwidth gives them right? After all, they need to maintain the integrity of their network so have to ensure idiots that fire up fifty porn torrents a day get the slap they deserve.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a free market. If they want unlimited downloads, they can get it. It just costs more.

Anonymous said...

Agree with Dizzy and BW, obviously. However, it obviously shouldn't be legal for ISPs to advertise "unlimited downloads" and then impose caps on "excessive use", which some currently do.

John B