Should something be “permitted”? Why, just ask Mark.
by schwim on Nov.21, 2007, under Miscellaneous
Like what, you say? Well, anything at all. You pick the topic at hand, and Mark will tell you if it should be allowed to continue, or whether you are to be deemed a freeloader and thus pushed to the outer ring of e-society and no longer allowed to use the right half of your keyboard.
For all you P2P guys? Bad news. Mark has already decided that you are freeloaders.
Mark Cuban is a gentleman who has taken it upon himself to write an open letter to Comcast, thanking them for their efforts to thwart the p2p movement. He’s decided that all p2p users are thieves, stealing bandwidth to share nefarious files and national secrets. It doesn’t matter that you pay for your internet connection to do this. His service is slow because of you bastards, and he wants you to be blocked so he can get his email quicker.
Before we continue, I don’t use p2p. I have no need, but even if I did, I’m on a connection that precludes it. Note that I’ve not written my ISP asking that all normal browsing users be blocked on my connection so I can use it, I just accept that the world doesn’t revolve around my bandwidth needs.
Not Mark. Mark is angry. But he’s not angry at his ISP that sold him a package with pipe dream speeds. No, Mark is angry that these bandwidth stealing bastards are ruining his internet experience. He will not entertain the thought that ISP’s are selling service that they can’t provide, regardless of the reason, he will simply request that p2p be stopped so he can get the magical speeds that his provider promised him. We also won’t discuss that his provider knew all allong that he’d never get them. Instead, he will write the provider a congratulatory letter for having bent us over and charged us for what they know they can’t provide.
Mark feels that although you pay for your connection just like he does, his needs should supersede yours. His justification is that you are freeloaders and thieves. With righteous fingers flying across his keyboard, he asks you: Does anyone really think its free ? That all the bandwidth consumed with content being distributed by P2P isn’t being paid for by someone ?
Well? Huh, dumbass? Who pays for it? Mark does, you morons.
Then, at the end of his verbal lashing, he tells you how to use Google video to effectively share your files. Both audio and visual. Yes. He tells you how to circumvent Google’s “video only” sharing system to host your audio files. That’s right. How to get over on Google.
Who pays for that, Mark?
