Comcast Filtering-For-Profit

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Source

Phase two hinges on the rollout of a new Comcast toolbar. In addition to tracking our users' web surfing habits and favorite pornographic sites, this toolbar also alerts customers before they download any file larger than 75KB. A helpful pop-up bearing the question “Are you sure you really meant to do that?” appears, and if the user does the right thing, and opts out of his bandwidth-intensive download, he’ll be greeted by a clever multimedia ad unit for a free webcam. The Happy Bandwidth Initiative team will be using the webcams to track user eye movements, allowing our research department to identify the content that users enjoy most, so that we can charge them a modest premium to access these high-traffic pages. The toolbar will be a mandatory download for all of our customers.

Thought some of you techies would find this interesting

[Chad]

This is just fucking ridiculous.  If that was my ISP I would seriously switch over right away. Almost EVERY file I download is >75KB. God. I feel bad for anyone who pays them.

Won't be long before they're sued and possibly worse.

EDIT: Read teh comments. >_>  It's possibly a joke by someone at that site.

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wilsiakk said:

This is just fucking ridiculous.  If that was my ISP I would seriously switch over right away. Almost EVERY file I download is >75KB. God. I feel bad for anyone who pays them.

Won't be long before they're sued and possibly worse.

EDIT: Read teh comments. >_>  It's possibly a joke by someone at that site.

Yeah I saw that, still funny though. I wouldn't doubt them doing that considering what they've been up to lately.

[Moldy Cheese]

Has to be a joke. But, I wouldn't put it outta Comcast's ways, especially from what I've heard from friends using Comcast.

[Vertigo]

There's no way this could be real. Comcast has been up to some questionable practices by limiting and or preventing bittorrent downloads but this is a bit far. Plus I should think that this would be all over the place if it was true.

[Beeeeeel]

Can't be true, that'd definitely lose them a great deal of customers. I'm already not a big fan on comcast for being cheap scumbags, but that's just pushing it a bit too far.

[Blink]

Yeah, I saw it because I subscribe to their magazine. I know for sure that guy doesn't like Comcast (I've read his remarks on it before).

Was obviously a joke. And was pretty funny too...