[h2odragon]

this isn't going to be fully effective until they name and shame.

little popups (like viasat did) that say something like "your internet will continue to suck until your neighbor at $address stops torrenting the 100gb h0rse archive"

and then they can get extra fees for "anonymous" as well as "unlimited"...

[alistairSH]

Or Cox can tell users what the limits are and cut off only those that exceed the limits. Punishing a whole region for one heavy user is ridiculous.

[zer8k]

Or alternatively they could take some of their record profits and upgrade their 30 year old infrastructure. The modern world is internet-enabled and these people are the ones with their foot on the hose selling water.

[ryandrake]

You mean, potentially have shareholders and executives get slightly less money? Preposterous! How would they afford their Aspen home or yacht in Monaco?

[alt187]

I can't wait for this future.

[dylan604]

Like HoAs weren't already annoying. In this future, the ISPs will deputize the HoAs to have roaving bands of enforcers going door to door to encourage considerate bandwidth practices. Eventually, this will be escalated to authorized drone strikes on the offending addresses. So it will behoove you to ensure your neighbors are not borrowing your bandwidth.

[stonethrowaway]

> name and shame

Can’t tell if this is serious or not. People here are doing basement and house work without any permits, without any gas line indicators, while being filmed. Neighbors are leaving because they fear a gas line puncture will lead to an explosion. The city won’t bother addressing it. Nobody, absolutely nobody gives a single infinitesimal fuck about a pipsqueak neighbor “naming and shaming” them over download limits. Laughable.