[ale] firewalls... illegal? Cany anyone read legalese?

[Robert L. Harris]

Because you obviously owe them money.  They "licenced" you a connection
for 1 computer with the understanding you'd pay more for additional by
upgrading to a business or other account if you needed more.

No, I'm definitely not agreeing with them but they see the dollar signs
and that's it.



Thus spake Dan Newcombe (Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu):

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >   Um, so I've got 6 machines at home on a normal "home" account.  To run
> > multiple machines I'm supposed to have multiple IP's they can charge me
> > for in their mindset.  Thus in thier opinion I'm defrauding them by not
> > paying them for all the computers I have hooked up to my cable modem...
> 
> That's why in the other thread I compared it to the way TV's used to
> be...they charge you for extra hookups even though there is no other
> resources being consumed.   Same thing with 6 computers on a cable modem -
> you are not using any more IP's or bandwidth than you could with one
> computer, so why should there be an extra charge?
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