“New pricing plans for broadband use could make downloading pirated music and movies a prohibitively costly habit. A host of cable companies, including AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, Comcast, and Cox Communications, are moving away from the old flat-fee pricing scheme that allowed users to download and transmit endless amounts of data (especially music, movies, and software) over high-speed connections. Instead, they’re rolling out new pricing schemes that could put limits on bandwidth usage per month and charge users additional fees if they go above the limit. Less sharing?…”
Yes, this topic has been covered at Zeropaid only a couple of weeks ago, but this Business Week article poses a good question: Will file-sharing really be hampered by higher broadband rates?
Related
- ISP’s soon to charge file sharers way more?
- Time Warner Cable Announces Monthly Usage Caps for ‘Consumption-Based Billing’
- Time Warner Cable to Test Out COMBINED Monthly Upload and Download Cap
- File-swappers whistling a different tune
- UK SURVEY: 86% Don’t Understand Broadband Connection Limits
