[geeks] FBI vs. bandwidth thieves

[Kris Kirby]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> The users did do A Bad Thing, though, trying to get something for free.  That
> does, logically, amount to theft.
>
> The story was long on accusation, and short on actual information.  Not
> surprising, since the cable company in question owns the paper that maintains
> that website...

Interesting. When I worked at $CABLE_CO, we got a first-hand report from
some internal guys about how they had tracked and shut down some incidents
of theft -- one was a valid customer who upgraded and didn't get the
service he requested so he `pop'd his modem... to 10Mb/s bidirectional.

Another few did 10 down, 45 up. Insane... and the company's model is to
have to bw ready but keep the customers from it... beautiful, no?

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