Back in January, wxpnews reported that due in part to the push by some for "network neutrality," ISPs were likely to head back to the bad old days of charging for Internet access according to per-hour or per-megabyte/gigabyte usage. George Ou was warning us (wxpnews) about this unintended consequence of the net neutrality movement, and that warning has proven prophetic.
First Time Warner began "testing" the new pricing model in Beaumont, Texas. Time Warner reportedly has several tiers of plans, with the most expensive one ($50something per month) capping your usage at 40 GB. Go over that, and you pay a dollar per gig. Some pundits predicted that they would never get away with extending that to other markets, and it would die a quick death. Instead, this week AT&T announced that they, too, are considering a similar type of pricing...
...The big problem here is that what's considered "high bandwidth usage" today may well be just normal Internet usage tomorrow. The wave of the future is HDTV over IP - but will you be able to afford to download high quality movies and television programs with usage caps of 40 GB per month and less? One hour of HDTV equals about 7 GB of data, so if you downloaded four average movies (two hours) per month, you've already exceeded that 40 GB limit with another 16 GB in overage charges - and that doesn't count any of your web surfing, email, and other Internet applications. And it also doesn't count your spam - which, of course, counts against your bandwidth usage even though you don't want it
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In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.
What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.
Pretty sure I've read and seen parts of Italy experiences/ing pretty bad floodings. Id argue that's more important than trying to prevent the sale of emulation devices.
European Consumer Organisation claims companies are misleading consumers with micropayments.
as long as they want people to stop using the internet.