I beg to differ with there not being 100 GB a month worth of content out there that is worth downloading.

Just one or two email worms or network worms can cause 50-80 GB of "downloads" a month. Why am I "charged" for usage for things like that? I didn't request it, so it shouldn't count against my "usage". The same should then be said about every high bandwidth ad, pop-up, audio ad, flash ad, etc., that most websites are now forcing upon their users. I shouldn't have to pay to recieve advertising, spam, viruses, network scans (done BY COMCAST), etc., all cound against "my usage".

If and when said company can actaully prove EVERY bit of data was requested specifically by me, then they can start charging for that usage. But that is just the whole problem, they can't tell what is what, nor will they even tell you how much data was transfered, what the limit is, or how much over the limit you are. It is like a police officer giving you a speeding ticket, but can't tell you how fast you were going, what the speed limit is, or how much slower you should go in the future. If I challenged that ticket in court, the judge would throw the ticket out for gross incompetence on the part of the ticketing officer. But there is no judge that you can challenge this "ticket" with. You just have to somehow figure out how to abide with the unwritten, unposted, and unknown rules.

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