'cos he's a piece of shit "anarchist" wanna-be?
Ummm, because he's not an American citizen? One can't be a traitor to a community one is not a member of. But don't let that stop you from being a douche. Carry on.
..the problem is that ISPs have been selling us the "bandwidth" to do this kind of activity for years. Bandwidth is in quotes because "back in the day" if you actually used the bandwidth you were paying for, they suspended your account as the likely reason for a residential user to draw any serious transfer was piracy.
Just so we're clear, what you're doing is blatantly generalizing. I've been on the Internet in some form or the other since about 1990. I've used probably dozens of ISPs and in multiple states, and I have never once had my account shut down or limited due to bandwidth usage. In fact I don't even remember ever hearing about this as a problem!
Sure if you've got comcast I understand they're doing it. I would not use comcast for this reason. But to claim that the problem is more widespread than it is (or at least WAS more widespread than it was then) is wrong.
GP is guilty of generalizing, and you're guilty of providing an entirely anecdotal counter argument - "I've never personally witnessed what you're claiming, so it must never occur". It can, and it does. Whether or not that's standard operating procedures for most ISPs of today or the past is something else entirely.
Can you name a single TV channel that exists in absence of viewers?
CSPAN?
This is only a problem when the products' purchase is compulsory.
Considering that the amount of compulsory services offered by corporations is insignificant as compared to the non-compulsory, you're pretty much arguing that in order to solve the National Debt, we need to arbitrarily increase taxes on consumers (significantly made up of the middle class) across the board? Good luck with that.
Just imagine how much less national debt we would have if corporations had to pay taxes.
Impossible. Any government imposed fee placed upon a corporation will simply be transferred to those that purchase the services they render as a "cost of doing business". Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do.
Memory fault - where am I?