It's not really "reduce max bandwidth," it's limit your cap of bits that can be transferred. If you were at CMU and downloaded about 1-2 Gigs a day for 3 or 4 consecutive days, you'd be warned and the next time taken off the network, so you'd have to get your season piecemeal over about 2 weeks. As more and more consumers start to download a gig or more a day, I garuntee that you'll start to see enforced hard limits to the amount you're allowed to download like CMU does. Universities are very much a good indicator of the population at large albeit about 5 or 10 years earlier.Dwindlehop wrote:Certainly horror stories abound about getting notices of being in "excess of reasonable bandwidth."
The content necessary to keep a 500kB/s pipe full for 24 hours would cost hundreds of dollars, though. You don't need support for that kind of behavior. 8-10 GB is only 4.6 hours at 500kB/s.
Sure, if by "collapse the house of cards" you mean "reduce everyone's max bandwidth."
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I will bet you the opposite happens. ISPs will continue to use "reasonable bandwidth" language in their user agreements. The actual amount that constitutes reasonable bandwidth will continue to float upwards with time. Once consumers get their fat fingers into flat fee unlimited price structures, they are loathe to let go, even if the economics don't support it. Ask AOL about selling per-minute access to consumers conditioned to accept $20/month for unlimited access. Even when it saves them money the consumers hate per-minute (or -megabyte) pricing.
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Yes I saw firefly when it was on TV and I would say it's the best show I've ever seen, but then again, I'm into that sort of thing and it was right about the time Buffy was ending.
Also, I don't understand what you guys are talking about with the whole bandwidth problem. I've been using bittorrent with RSS to watch three or four hour long shows for the last season. It's better than tivo since you can find episodes that you missed recording. I'm sure vinny downloads more in a single day than any 'typical' user of this service would download in two weeks.
Yes I saw firefly when it was on TV and I would say it's the best show I've ever seen, but then again, I'm into that sort of thing and it was right about the time Buffy was ending.
Also, I don't understand what you guys are talking about with the whole bandwidth problem. I've been using bittorrent with RSS to watch three or four hour long shows for the last season. It's better than tivo since you can find episodes that you missed recording. I'm sure vinny downloads more in a single day than any 'typical' user of this service would download in two weeks.
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Hear, hear.
Correction: Comcast is 4Mbit/s.
Re universities: Not in this case, because what is reasonable bandwidth for a research institution and what the market will bear are two different things.
On topic: in light of the Serenity movie, is every Joss Whedon property doomed to failure the first time around?
Correction: Comcast is 4Mbit/s.
Re universities: Not in this case, because what is reasonable bandwidth for a research institution and what the market will bear are two different things.
On topic: in light of the Serenity movie, is every Joss Whedon property doomed to failure the first time around?
I think so. Maybe because he actually tells good stories where it's takes a bit of time to set everything up and develop the characters. In this post modern h***-hole where everyone wants things to be fast and superficial, that just doesn't work.Dwindlehop wrote:On topic: in light of the Serenity movie, is every Joss Whedon property doomed to failure the first time around?