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	<title>Comments on: Comcast and Freedom to Obtain Service Plan Information</title>
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		<title>By: VirginiaAMckinney</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62278</link>
		<dc:creator>VirginiaAMckinney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: VirginiaAMckinney</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-61148</link>
		<dc:creator>VirginiaAMckinney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Richard Bennett</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-39760</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bennett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I seem to recall Hammurabi making some noise about service plans in the first draft of his opus &quot;My Codex and Other Cool Laws of Cyberspace.&quot; The relevant text was done in bas-relief on basalt, written in cuneiform script. The Service Freedom portion was lost when the stele fell off the back of the slave who was carrying it to Hammurabi&#039;s library after the election of 1760 BC removed the Plutocrat Party from office, replacing them with the Autocrats. Incidentally, the Babylon Babblers won the World Series that year, lifting the curse of Ur-Nammu.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I seem to recall Hammurabi making some noise about service plans in the first draft of his opus &#8220;My Codex and Other Cool Laws of Cyberspace.&#8221; The relevant text was done in bas-relief on basalt, written in cuneiform script. The Service Freedom portion was lost when the stele fell off the back of the slave who was carrying it to Hammurabi&#8217;s library after the election of 1760 BC removed the Plutocrat Party from office, replacing them with the Autocrats. Incidentally, the Babylon Babblers won the World Series that year, lifting the curse of Ur-Nammu.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Bennett</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-47741</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bennett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I seem to recall Hammurabi making some noise about service plans in the first draft of his opus &quot;My Codex and Other Cool Laws of Cyberspace.&quot; The relevant text was done in bas-relief on basalt, written in cuneiform script. The Service Freedom portion was lost when the stele fell off the back of the slave who was carrying it to Hammurabi&#039;s library after the election of 1760 BC removed the Plutocrat Party from office, replacing them with the Autocrats. Incidentally, the Babylon Babblers won the World Series that year, lifting the curse of Ur-Nammu.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I seem to recall Hammurabi making some noise about service plans in the first draft of his opus &#8220;My Codex and Other Cool Laws of Cyberspace.&#8221; The relevant text was done in bas-relief on basalt, written in cuneiform script. The Service Freedom portion was lost when the stele fell off the back of the slave who was carrying it to Hammurabi&#8217;s library after the election of 1760 BC removed the Plutocrat Party from office, replacing them with the Autocrats. Incidentally, the Babylon Babblers won the World Series that year, lifting the curse of Ur-Nammu.</p>
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		<title>By: dimitris</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-39759</link>
		<dc:creator>dimitris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;the consumer “shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user’s use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;How can the user &lt;b&gt;ensure&lt;/b&gt; that her behavior does not violate a standard which is set &lt;b&gt;in the sole judgment of Comcast&lt;/b&gt;, unless Comcast publishes that standard?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do I need a special law-school-exclusive brain implant to read Comcast contracts?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
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<blockquote>the consumer “shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user’s use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network.”</p></blockquote>
<p>How can the user <b>ensure</b> that her behavior does not violate a standard which is set <b>in the sole judgment of Comcast</b>, unless Comcast publishes that standard?</p>
<p>Do I need a special law-school-exclusive brain implant to read Comcast contracts?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: dimitris</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-47740</link>
		<dc:creator>dimitris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;the consumer “shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user’s use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can the user &lt;b&gt;ensure&lt;/b&gt; that her behavior does not violate a standard which is set &lt;b&gt;in the sole judgment of Comcast&lt;/b&gt;, unless Comcast publishes that standard?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do I need a special law-school-exclusive brain implant to read Comcast contracts?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<blockquote>the consumer “shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user’s use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>How can the user <b>ensure</b> that her behavior does not violate a standard which is set <b>in the sole judgment of Comcast</b>, unless Comcast publishes that standard?</p>
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<p>Do I need a special law-school-exclusive brain implant to read Comcast contracts?</p>
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<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Harper</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-39758</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Harper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &quot;freedom to obtain service plan information&quot; - if I&#039;m not mistaken, that was the missing &quot;fifth&quot; freedom in FDR&#039;s 1941 State of the Union address.

Though historians are still searching for confirmation of this, it was apparently dropped from the speech because the president&#039;s advisors wanted an equal number of traditional negative freedoms (e.g., from interference with speech, worship) and unworkable &quot;positive freedoms&quot; (e.g., from want, fear, and confusing fine print in Terms of Service documents).
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;freedom to obtain service plan information&#8221; &#8211; if I&#8217;m not mistaken, that was the missing &#8220;fifth&#8221; freedom in FDR&#8217;s 1941 State of the Union address.</p>
<p>Though historians are still searching for confirmation of this, it was apparently dropped from the speech because the president&#8217;s advisors wanted an equal number of traditional negative freedoms (e.g., from interference with speech, worship) and unworkable &#8220;positive freedoms&#8221; (e.g., from want, fear, and confusing fine print in Terms of Service documents).</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Harper</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-47739</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Harper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &quot;freedom to obtain service plan information&quot; - if I&#039;m not mistaken, that was the missing &quot;fifth&quot; freedom in FDR&#039;s 1941 State of the Union address.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Though historians are still searching for confirmation of this, it was apparently dropped from the speech because the president&#039;s advisors wanted an equal number of traditional negative freedoms (e.g., from interference with speech, worship) and unworkable &quot;positive freedoms&quot; (e.g., from want, fear, and confusing fine print in Terms of Service documents).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;freedom to obtain service plan information&#8221; &#8211; if I&#8217;m not mistaken, that was the missing &#8220;fifth&#8221; freedom in FDR&#8217;s 1941 State of the Union address.</p>
<p>Though historians are still searching for confirmation of this, it was apparently dropped from the speech because the president&#8217;s advisors wanted an equal number of traditional negative freedoms (e.g., from interference with speech, worship) and unworkable &#8220;positive freedoms&#8221; (e.g., from want, fear, and confusing fine print in Terms of Service documents).</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Bennett</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-39757</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bennett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Go read the Comcast &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comcast.net/terms/subscriber.jsp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comcast Agreement for Residential Services&lt;/a&gt;, where you will find the following (HSI = High Speed Internet access):

&lt;em&gt;b. Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, &quot;Web hosting&quot; or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.&lt;/em&gt;

BitTorrent acting as a seed (after the download is complete) is a server. That&#039;s forbidden on Comcast Residential Accounts.

This is old news and has already been discussed at great length on this blog.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go read the Comcast <a href="http://www.comcast.net/terms/subscriber.jsp" rel="nofollow">Comcast Agreement for Residential Services</a>, where you will find the following (HSI = High Speed Internet access):</p>
<p><em>b. Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, &#8220;Web hosting&#8221; or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.</em></p>
<p>BitTorrent acting as a seed (after the download is complete) is a server. That&#8217;s forbidden on Comcast Residential Accounts.</p>
<p>This is old news and has already been discussed at great length on this blog.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Bennett</title>
		<link>http://techliberation.com/2007/11/06/comcast-and-freedom-to-obtain-service-plan-information/comment-page-1/#comment-47738</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bennett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Go read the Comcast &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comcast.net/terms/subscriber.jsp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comcast Agreement for Residential Services&lt;/a&gt;, where you will find the following (HSI = High Speed Internet access):&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;b. Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, &quot;Web hosting&quot; or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;BitTorrent acting as a seed (after the download is complete) is a server. That&#039;s forbidden on Comcast Residential Accounts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is old news and has already been discussed at great length on this blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go read the Comcast <a href="http://www.comcast.net/terms/subscriber.jsp" rel="nofollow">Comcast Agreement for Residential Services</a>, where you will find the following (HSI = High Speed Internet access):</p>
<p><em>b. Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, &#8220;Web hosting&#8221; or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.</em></p>
<p>BitTorrent acting as a seed (after the download is complete) is a server. That&#8217;s forbidden on Comcast Residential Accounts.</p>
<p>This is old news and has already been discussed at great length on this blog.</p>
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