Comment Re:Why can't (Score 1) 349
I don't think they should sell you bandwidth and than charge for data
Actually if they were charging by-the-bit then such a thing would be almost certainly be standard and required. The 250GB cap is sort of a bastard step child of not-charging-by-the-bit and not-charging-for-bandwidth - perhaps the worst of both worlds.
But, anyway, many ISP's have people with ports like that - they're usually doing heavy torrenting. The trouble here is that Amazon probably won't accept any responsibility for their error and the damage it caused.
And it's also astonishing that they didn't notice huge spikes on their end - does nobody buy these things?