Bandwidth Bust!
Bandwidth Bust!
Dan Gillmor has an interesting posting about a crackdown by police on behalf of Buckeye Cable, which claimed a group of people had appropriated a quarter million dollars worth of bandwidth from its cable modem service. Dan asks the questions:
- What metric led the cable company to claim losses of a quarter million dollars? Something more substantial than a Ouija Board?
- How, precisely, were the modems altered? Did the customers own the modems?
- What's in the service contract to begin with? What kind of limitations do subscribers agree to? Were the current limitations put in place via the usual sneakware method, where a cable provider posts changes in terms of service, or were the customers notified up front?
- The local detective says no other searches and seizures have occurred in the U.S. Could that possibly be a hint that these actions were way, way out of line?
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at November 27, 2002 11:12 AM
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