Comment Re:Where are the goth kids when you need them? (Score 1) 107
I bet their corporate headquarters is in Scottsdale.
Comment Re:Better than the Worst? (Score 1) 206
Not to mention on the internet side Charter is offering 60/4 residential speeds (with free modem) for the same price I currently pay TW to get 15/1, the modem being an additional $7.99/mo if you want them to NOT charge you should they need to stop by and fix things, and TW's price was a promotional price.
I feared Comcast because of what I'd heard about Comcast both in terms of customer service and bandwith throttling. Everything I've heard about Charter is that I'll get faster theoretical advertized speeds and about the same level of "service" as I'm used to with TW.
I feared Comcast because of what I'd heard about Comcast both in terms of customer service and bandwith throttling. Everything I've heard about Charter is that I'll get faster theoretical advertized speeds and about the same level of "service" as I'm used to with TW.
Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 1) 790
Seems pretty clear that this falls squarely within it's right to regulate. Unless you can explain how the Internet isn't "communication by wire or radio".
But... everyone knows the internet is a series of tubes and therefore neither wire nor radio.
Submission + - RIAA uses local cops in Oregon fleamarket raid
newtley writes: "Fake cops employed by the RIAA started acting like real police officers quite a while ago, one of the earliest examples coming in Los Angeles in 2004. From a distance, the bust, "looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black 'raid' vests the unit members wore," said the LA Weekly. That their yellow stenciled lettering read 'RIAA' instead of something from an official law-enforcement agency, "was lost on 55-year-old parking-lot attendant Ceasar Borrayo." But it's also SOP for the RIAA to tout genuine officers paid for entirely from citizen taxes as copyright cops. Police were used in an RIAA-inspired raid at two flea markets in Beaverton, Oregon. "Sgt. Paul Wandell, Beaverton police spokesman, said officers seized more than 50,000 items worth about $758,000," says The Oregonian. But this is merely the tiny tip of an iceberg of absolutely staggering dimensions, an example of the extent coming in a GrayZone report slugged RIAA Anti-Piracy Seizure Information."
Comment Re:If DVD ripping is legal then.. (Score 1) 213
Estoppel comes into play. Check it. For one moment lets go all hypothetical and say that what you're suggesting is true, and that the MPAA and CCA broke the law horribly by denying people fair-use rights. Well, they can then claim that they've been telling people for years that the discs are encrypted (which they have) and that any challenge on this ground these years later should be effectively ignored on the grounds that "the public knew we've been doing this for so long and said nothing."
Could that point be argued in court? Probably. But a good lawyer would pad the estoppel claim with many others just in case someone did manage to shoot it down.
