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Okay, so Time Warner isn't what I would call on my COOL LIST right now. The past few days have been filled with answering e-mails, tweets and blogs about what internet provider I use because Time Warner decided that Austin would be one of three of their first markets to feel the pinch of a monthly downloading limit. They want to cap internet usage at 40G per household per month - then charge for anything above that. This is very, very bad.While aimed at hitting pirates where it hurts (their pockets) what it does is hurt those of us who watch or partake in legitimate entertainment via the web. Hulu, Youtube and Spill all stream large amounts of info into your home on a daily basis. Factor in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (which often include hefty updates in addition to the constant back and forth traffic to play the game) and services like STEAM which allow you to download games whole hog (legally, mind you) you find those of us who turn to our computer for the bulk of our entertainment getting it right in the backside because of people (who most of you know are some of my favorite Americans) known as pirates.
THANKS PIRATES! Now go suck a box of dicks.
The big fear here of course is that enough Time Warner users won't jump ship at the thought to a more reliable service provider not yet charging like this (you know, like my provider AT&T) and other providers will follow suit as they catch a whiff of the money tree. But if Time Warner's new approach to the internet (which AOL abandoned in the '90s if I remember correctly) wasn't enough to put them on your radar, how about this little travesty?
To all FEARnet fans who subscribe to Time Warner or Bright House Cable --
Time Warner and Bright House have dropped FEARnet from your cable line-up. They have eliminated your on-demand access to horror, thriller and suspense movies 24/7. If you want to once again see FEARnet on your cable system, your cable operator needs to hear from you. Call 1-877-FEAR-247, we'll connect you with your cable operator and you can let them know you want FEARnet (And be aware that for some customers, FEARnet is available on AT&T U-Verse and Verizon Fios). We hope you will be able to enjoy the premiere on-demand destination for horror, thriller and suspense films, uncut and unedited, including the following titles coming soon.
5 Never-Before-Seen Episodes of ‘Fear Itself'
Hostel
Hostel 2
Army Of Darkness
Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train (Director's Cut)
Bug
Boogeyman
Resident Evil
Candyman
Darkman
Christine
Vacancy 2
Frontier (s)
Phantasm
Captivity
Child's Play
I Know Who Killed Me, starring Lindsay Lohan
Darkman
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Don't miss out. Call 1-877-FEAR-247 now.
So Time Warner has dropped FEARnet too? Great. I happen to be a fan of FEARnet - while as many of you know I don't have cable, many of those FEARnet films end up on Hulu where I watch them repeatedly. But look! AT&T still has it...I wonder if they provide solid internet service to Austinites as well...after you throw down your support for FEARnet, you might want to take a gander at them.
THANKS PIRATES! Now go suck a box of dicks.
The big fear here of course is that enough Time Warner users won't jump ship at the thought to a more reliable service provider not yet charging like this (you know, like my provider AT&T) and other providers will follow suit as they catch a whiff of the money tree. But if Time Warner's new approach to the internet (which AOL abandoned in the '90s if I remember correctly) wasn't enough to put them on your radar, how about this little travesty?
To all FEARnet fans who subscribe to Time Warner or Bright House Cable --
Time Warner and Bright House have dropped FEARnet from your cable line-up. They have eliminated your on-demand access to horror, thriller and suspense movies 24/7. If you want to once again see FEARnet on your cable system, your cable operator needs to hear from you. Call 1-877-FEAR-247, we'll connect you with your cable operator and you can let them know you want FEARnet (And be aware that for some customers, FEARnet is available on AT&T U-Verse and Verizon Fios). We hope you will be able to enjoy the premiere on-demand destination for horror, thriller and suspense films, uncut and unedited, including the following titles coming soon.
5 Never-Before-Seen Episodes of ‘Fear Itself'
Hostel
Hostel 2
Army Of Darkness
Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train (Director's Cut)
Bug
Boogeyman
Resident Evil
Candyman
Darkman
Christine
Vacancy 2
Frontier (s)
Phantasm
Captivity
Child's Play
I Know Who Killed Me, starring Lindsay Lohan
Darkman
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Don't miss out. Call 1-877-FEAR-247 now.
So Time Warner has dropped FEARnet too? Great. I happen to be a fan of FEARnet - while as many of you know I don't have cable, many of those FEARnet films end up on Hulu where I watch them repeatedly. But look! AT&T still has it...I wonder if they provide solid internet service to Austinites as well...after you throw down your support for FEARnet, you might want to take a gander at them.
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Comment by Ito on April 5, 2009 at 10:18pm - YOu said Darkman twice
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Comment by Miley Zor-El on April 5, 2009 at 4:07pm -
Yeah Piracy is the problem. That's why Sweden, home to people like ThePirateBay is so behind us in terms on internet capacity.
Oh wait.
Piracy is not destroying the internet, or ruining anyone's bandwidth. The truth is, the internet companies have squandered the money they were given to create proper bandwidth penetration, so we're getting lapped by countries like Sweden and China despite the fact that all the main servers that actually run the internet i.e. the domain names are contained on US soil.
Remember that net neutrality bill that got all the attention a while back? This is what that bill was trying to prevent. The real thing the telcos are working to do is create a gradual system where they can keep you from going to Google. First they'll cap. Then they'll tell you they need to restrict certain sites (because of piracy) Oh one of those was Google? Oh well.
Piracy used to be the big suck of the internet, but thanks to YouTube, Xbox Live, iTunes, and a thousand and one other download services that are entirely legal, piracy has become nigh indistinguishable from the other internet traffic. But thanks to a bunch of ignorant people who fall for the scapegoat, it's still able to be used to hide moneygrubbing tactics on the part of companies that would rather increase their profits than increase their technology.
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Comment by Nick Miracle on April 4, 2009 at 3:06pm - SAVE FEARNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Crosshair on April 4, 2009 at 1:50am - Time Warner Cable being dickhead to their customers...what else is new?
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Comment by Johnnie D on April 3, 2009 at 10:51pm - hmm i wonder if that will work for comcast
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Comment by joannajax on April 3, 2009 at 10:04pm - Time Warner is awful, I hated them when we had them. I hope they lose a lot of customers/money and that other ISPs don't opt for this bandwidth limit. This isn't the fault of the pirates, it's the fault of these companies not being able to curb piracy b/c of their ignorance and unwillingness to adapt to modern times. If they actually bothered to spend time and money (maybe some research) into how to curb piracy instead of trying to punish everyone maybe they'd be losing less money. If their goal is to make pirates 'feel bad' about these limitations it's not going to work. Piracy is too easily done and easily concealed for anyone to feel any guilt.
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Comment by HardcoreSouma on April 3, 2009 at 6:59pm - Teh sux0r. My friends love FEARnet...they have original J-Horror flicks so you don't have to deal with the horrible American remakes (...I'm looking at YOU, "One Missed Call".)
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Comment by Meh. on April 3, 2009 at 5:29pm -
They're finally going to put better movies up & they're throwing Fearnet out just like that?!?!
WTFFFF NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! D:
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Comment by Jonathan AKA JodeneSparks on April 3, 2009 at 5:10pm -
I didn't know they had a tv network. I'm just a fan of there website I even won a itunes giftcard a couple days ago.
They have some good shit on there.
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Comment by Babalu Jack on April 3, 2009 at 4:53pm -
their problably droppin HDnet too
ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAVE FEARnet and HDnet
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