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The problem is not that he was using a lot of bandwidth. If the usage didn't violate the Verizon ToS (no servers), he would have a good case. But he (presumabl
by mirkules 13y ago
The problem is not that he was using a lot of bandwidth. If the usage didn't violate the Verizon ToS (no servers), he would have a good case.
But he (presumably) agreed to the ToS when he signed up for the service, he violated the ToS by running servers, and then got threatened to lose his service if he didn't upgrade to business without such restrictions.
Is everyone surprised because Verizon came knocking on his door after using 30,000% more bandwidth than anyone else?? If you were running this network, wouldn't you want to know what was causing such high usage?
- TylerE 13y agoHe'd have a hard time arguing legitimate use in _any_ case, considering that running a full-bitrate, un-recompressed Blu-Ray stream 24/7 would only be 11.7TB/month. Anyone using more than that is either running servers or hitting alt.binaries.* a bit hard...