Vista - Dawn Of Internet Video, REVENGE of Time Warner Cable!

01-18-2008

Welcome to the new age of Internet video downloading and
streaming!

The arrival of this new age was heralded by the fact that Apple's
iTunes Store now sells more videos than there are sales of either
Blu-ray DVDs or HD-DVDs. (BTW: I predict HD-DVD will be stone
cold dead by the end of 2008).

As of this week you can now even RENT high definition quality
(720p) video over the Internet via the Apple iTunes Store.

So get this:

Time Warner Cable has decided to WREAK REVENGE!

As reported by the New York Times on Thursday:

Time Warner: Download Too Much and You Might Pay $30 a Movie
By SAUL HANSELL
January 17, 2008,* 4:47 pm

<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...r-download-too
-much-and-you-might-pay-30-a-movie/index.html?ex=1201323600&en=d25
14f2955800d0d&ei=5043&partner=EXCITE>

Quote:

> Let¹s say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition
> movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind
> up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when you download a movie using
> its high-speed Internet service.
>
> Time Warner said on Wednesday that it was going to start testing a new rate
> plan in Beaumont that would limit the amount of bandwidth each customer can
> use each month before additional fees kick in. Alexander Dudley, a Time
> Warner spokesman, said that the exact terms had not been set, but that
> packages would probably offer between 5 gigabytes and 40 gigabytes a month.
> The top plan would cost roughly the same as the company¹s highest-speed
> service, which typically runs between $50 and $60 a month.

Obviously this is a test LEAD BALLOON being let loose in poor
little old Texas in order to see if they can pull a con-job on
the entire USA.

From the article:

Quote:

> Moreover, the marginal cost of extra bandwidth is very small, he said. For
> broadband Internet service, 80 percent to 90 percent of the costs are fixed
> regardless of use. And the all-in cost of a gigabyte of use is about 10 cents
> or less.

Again, it costs Time Warner 10¢ for every GB you download.
Therefore, they intend to charge you something similar to what
Bell Canada already perpetrate upon their customers: $7.42 per GB
when you go beyond the LIMIT of your purchased monthly download
plan. The plans are expected to have a peak allowed download
bandwidth per month of 40 GB per month.

You can go into shock now.

Now listen to the insincere, insulting, scurrilous, arrogant,
patronizing... (you get the idea), marketing moron SPIN Time
Warner Cable are puking forth upon their customers about this
swindle:

Alexander Dudley of Time Warner sez:

Quote:

> ³This is not targeted at people who download movies from Apple....
> This is aimed at people who use peer-to-peer networks and download
> terabytes.²
>
> . . .
>
> ³A big part of what we are doing is to test customer feedback.... We want our
> customers to feel like they are getting a good value.²

GOOD VALUE? WTF? HAHAHAHAHAHA!

10¢ worth of downloads = $7.42 (guestimate) of EXTRA charges from
Time Warner Cable.

Yeah right. I'll bend over for that, NOT.

Fine, Time Warner want to gouge you hard and deep for using extra
bandwidth. But what ELSE is going on here?

A) Time Warner, and other company's, attempts at destroying NET
NEUTRALITY have totally failed. They want REVENGE.

B) Digital downloading of media over the Internet is taking away
customers from Time Warner's digital cable TV feed business. They
want REVENGE.

It's called ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR. You know, like what
Microsoft always does when they run over competitors like a steam
roller?

Fact: When you remove competition from business endeavors you
eliminate the incentive to INNOVATE. Again, think of Microsoft.

RESULT: Time Warner Cable want to throw us into the Internet DARK
AGES for the purpose of their own profit. This is one company
attempting to pillage an entire Internet industry because they
don't happen to like how it affects their business.

It's called MONOPOLY behavior. It's called ILLEGAL.

*** How to tell Time Warner to stuff their greed ridden revenge
tactic:

Call, Fax, write or email Time Warner Cable letting them know
that if they pull this con-job on you in YOUR part of the USA
then you will respond by DUMPING their service for a superior
alternative, DAMMIT.

A) The players to contact:

1) Glenn A. Britt, President and CEO of TWC:
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/corpo...ecutivemanagem
entteam/gb.html>

2) Landel C. Hobbs, Chief Operating Officer:
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/corpo...ecutivemanagem
entteam/lh.html>

3) Robert D. Marcus, Senior Executive Vice President:
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/corpo...ecutivemanagem
entteam/rm.html>

4) Joan Gillman, Executive Vice President and President, Time
Warner Cable Media Sales
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/aboutus/management.html>

5) Same Howe, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/aboutus/management.html>

6) Regional Executive Vice Presidents of Operations:

a) Wayne D. Knighton, Texas Region (aka Chief of this con-job
test)

b) Terry O'Connell, Midwest Region

c) Barry S. Rosenblum, New York City and Southern California
Region

d) Carol A. Hevey, Carolina Region

e) William R. Goetz Jr., West and New England Region

<http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/aboutus/management.html>

Other members of Executive Management are listed at the same URL
above.

7) Board of Directors:
<http://ir.timewarnercable.com/directors.cfm>

B) HOW TO CONTACT TIME WARNER CABLE:

1) Shareholder Services / Investor Relations (if you own stock in
Time Warner):
<http://ir.timewarnercable.com/contactus.cfm>

877-4-INFO-TWC

ir@xxxxxx

2) Time Warner Cable corporate address, where you can write to
ANY of the Executive Officers or the Board of Directors:

Time Warner Cable
[C/O Whomever]
290 Harbor Drive
Stamford, CT 06902-8700
203-328-0600

3) Look up and contact your local Customer Service:
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/Corporate/CustomerService/>

* Example:

You are one of the victims living in Beaumont, Texas. Your zip
code may be 77701. Go to the Customer Service lookup page:
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/Local...te.ashx?tid=21

Quote:

>

Enter your Zip Code: 77701, hit Enter or the GO button.
You are taken to the site for the Golden Triangle region of TWC.
<http://www.timewarnercable.com/GoldenTriangle/>

The web page for this particular region (don't expect the same
interface at each region) requires you to hit the link at the top
for 'Customer Service' where you can pick "Contact Us".

Scroll down that page and you will find:

Main Office: 800-222-5355
Hours: M-F 8 AM - 9 PM

TWC Local Offices:

Time Warner Cable
602 N. Highway 69
Nederland, TX 77627
Fax: 409-727-5050

Time Warner Cable
5330 Twin City Highway
Port Arthur, TX 77640
M-F: 8 am - 5:30 pm

If we don't act on this crime against the Internet then it will
SPREAD. Time Warner Cable will pull this con-job across the
entire USA. And obviously the same con-job will SPREAD to other
companies such as Comcast. Result: The Internet Video/TV industry
comes to a crashing halt. Time Warner Cable and the other cable
monopolies stop stamping their little feet in anger. Instead they
get to sit back and rake in ill-gotten gains from customers who
are forced to get their digital media from their cable TV service.

Keep the Internet SANE, NEUTRAL and FREE OF CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS!

Contact Time Warner Cable ASAP please and stop this revenge
tactic dead in its tracks before we all suffer the consequences.

Share and Enjoy,

:-Derek Currie

--
Fortune Magazine 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today?
Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been
equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool,
not a challenge.
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/>
[Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'.
He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software
engineering in 1975.]

01-21-2008

I've been watching YouTube aggressively and average 10-15 GB a month on this
computer just to load the videos onscreen, and likely the same elsewhere to
download andd save the videos. Today, MLK day, all I have is newsgroups, nothing
in Internet Explorer works. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch from the weather?

01-21-2008

"Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxg> wrote in message
news:4794e339$0$22574$4c368faf@xxxxxx
| I've been watching YouTube aggressively and average 10-15 GB a month on this
| computer just to load the videos onscreen, and likely the same elsewhere to
| download andd save the videos. Today, MLK day, all I have is newsgroups,
nothing
| in Internet Explorer works. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch from the
weather?
|

I've downloaded 9.241 GB this month (January to date on this computer), uploaded
0.314 GB = Total u/d of 9.549 GB

01-21-2008

Uh, I had to reboot my computer & modem to get my internet back. RR cuts my
signal to make me paranoid and once in a while I have to reboot everything to
get my signals back.

01-23-2008

"Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxg> wrote in
news:47950848$1$22662$4c368faf@xxxxxx:

Quote:

> Uh, I had to reboot my computer & modem to get my internet back.

Quote:

> RR cuts my signal to make me paranoid and once in a while I have to
> reboot everything to get my signals back.

Maybe it's not RR, maybe you're just paranoid.

01-18-2008	#1 (permalink)
Derek Currie n/a posts	Dawn Of Internet Video, REVENGE of Time Warner Cable! Welcome to the new age of Internet video downloading and streaming! The arrival of this new age was heralded by the fact that Apple's iTunes Store now sells more videos than there are sales of either Blu-ray DVDs or HD-DVDs. (BTW: I predict HD-DVD will be stone cold dead by the end of 2008). As of this week you can now even RENT high definition quality (720p) video over the Internet via the Apple iTunes Store. So get this: Time Warner Cable has decided to WREAK REVENGE! As reported by the New York Times on Thursday: Time Warner: Download Too Much and You Might Pay $30 a Movie By SAUL HANSELL January 17, 2008,* 4:47 pm <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...r-download-too -much-and-you-might-pay-30-a-movie/index.html?ex=1201323600&en=d25 14f2955800d0d&ei=5043&partner=EXCITE> Quote: > Let¹s say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition > movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind > up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when you download a movie using > its high-speed Internet service. > > Time Warner said on Wednesday that it was going to start testing a new rate > plan in Beaumont that would limit the amount of bandwidth each customer can > use each month before additional fees kick in. Alexander Dudley, a Time > Warner spokesman, said that the exact terms had not been set, but that > packages would probably offer between 5 gigabytes and 40 gigabytes a month. > The top plan would cost roughly the same as the company¹s highest-speed > service, which typically runs between $50 and $60 a month. Obviously this is a test LEAD BALLOON being let loose in poor little old Texas in order to see if they can pull a con-job on the entire USA. From the article: Quote: > Moreover, the marginal cost of extra bandwidth is very small, he said. For > broadband Internet service, 80 percent to 90 percent of the costs are fixed > regardless of use. And the all-in cost of a gigabyte of use is about 10 cents > or less. Again, it costs Time Warner 10¢ for every GB you download. Therefore, they intend to charge you something similar to what Bell Canada already perpetrate upon their customers: $7.42 per GB when you go beyond the LIMIT of your purchased monthly download plan. The plans are expected to have a peak allowed download bandwidth per month of 40 GB per month. You can go into shock now. Now listen to the insincere, insulting, scurrilous, arrogant, patronizing... (you get the idea), marketing moron SPIN Time Warner Cable are puking forth upon their customers about this swindle: Alexander Dudley of Time Warner sez: Quote: > ³This is not targeted at people who download movies from Apple.... > This is aimed at people who use peer-to-peer networks and download > terabytes.² > > . . . > > ³A big part of what we are doing is to test customer feedback.... We want our > customers to feel like they are getting a good value.² GOOD VALUE? WTF? HAHAHAHAHAHA! 10¢ worth of downloads = $7.42 (guestimate) of EXTRA charges from Time Warner Cable. Yeah right. I'll bend over for that, NOT. Fine, Time Warner want to gouge you hard and deep for using extra bandwidth. But what ELSE is going on here? A) Time Warner, and other company's, attempts at destroying NET NEUTRALITY have totally failed. They want REVENGE. B) Digital downloading of media over the Internet is taking away customers from Time Warner's digital cable TV feed business. They want REVENGE. It's called ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR. You know, like what Microsoft always does when they run over competitors like a steam roller? Fact: When you remove competition from business endeavors you eliminate the incentive to INNOVATE. Again, think of Microsoft. RESULT: Time Warner Cable want to throw us into the Internet DARK AGES for the purpose of their own profit. This is one company attempting to pillage an entire Internet industry because they don't happen to like how it affects their business. It's called MONOPOLY behavior. It's called ILLEGAL. *** How to tell Time Warner to stuff their greed ridden revenge tactic: Call, Fax, write or email Time Warner Cable letting them know that if they pull this con-job on you in YOUR part of the USA then you will respond by DUMPING their service for a superior alternative, DAMMIT. A) The players to contact: 1) Glenn A. Britt, President and CEO of TWC: <http://www.timewarnercable.com/corpo...ecutivemanagem entteam/gb.html> 2) Landel C. Hobbs, Chief Operating Officer: <http://www.timewarnercable.com/corpo...ecutivemanagem entteam/lh.html> 3) Robert D. Marcus, Senior Executive Vice President: <http://www.timewarnercable.com/corpo...ecutivemanagem entteam/rm.html> 4) Joan Gillman, Executive Vice President and President, Time Warner Cable Media Sales <http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/aboutus/management.html> 5) Same Howe, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer <http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/aboutus/management.html> 6) Regional Executive Vice Presidents of Operations: a) Wayne D. Knighton, Texas Region (aka Chief of this con-job test) b) Terry O'Connell, Midwest Region c) Barry S. Rosenblum, New York City and Southern California Region d) Carol A. Hevey, Carolina Region e) William R. Goetz Jr., West and New England Region <http://www.timewarnercable.com/corporate/aboutus/management.html> Other members of Executive Management are listed at the same URL above. 7) Board of Directors: <http://ir.timewarnercable.com/directors.cfm> B) HOW TO CONTACT TIME WARNER CABLE: 1) Shareholder Services / Investor Relations (if you own stock in Time Warner): <http://ir.timewarnercable.com/contactus.cfm> 877-4-INFO-TWC ir@xxxxxx 2) Time Warner Cable corporate address, where you can write to ANY of the Executive Officers or the Board of Directors: Time Warner Cable [C/O Whomever] 290 Harbor Drive Stamford, CT 06902-8700 203-328-0600 3) Look up and contact your local Customer Service: <http://www.timewarnercable.com/Corporate/CustomerService/> * Example: You are one of the victims living in Beaumont, Texas. Your zip code may be 77701. Go to the Customer Service lookup page: <http://www.timewarnercable.com/Local...te.ashx?tid=21 Quote: > Enter your Zip Code: 77701, hit Enter or the GO button. You are taken to the site for the Golden Triangle region of TWC. <http://www.timewarnercable.com/GoldenTriangle/> The web page for this particular region (don't expect the same interface at each region) requires you to hit the link at the top for 'Customer Service' where you can pick "Contact Us". Scroll down that page and you will find: Main Office: 800-222-5355 Hours: M-F 8 AM - 9 PM TWC Local Offices: Time Warner Cable 602 N. Highway 69 Nederland, TX 77627 Fax: 409-727-5050 Time Warner Cable 5330 Twin City Highway Port Arthur, TX 77640 M-F: 8 am - 5:30 pm If we don't act on this crime against the Internet then it will SPREAD. Time Warner Cable will pull this con-job across the entire USA. And obviously the same con-job will SPREAD to other companies such as Comcast. Result: The Internet Video/TV industry comes to a crashing halt. Time Warner Cable and the other cable monopolies stop stamping their little feet in anger. Instead they get to sit back and rake in ill-gotten gains from customers who are forced to get their digital media from their cable TV service. Keep the Internet SANE, NEUTRAL and FREE OF CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS! Contact Time Warner Cable ASAP please and stop this revenge tactic dead in its tracks before we all suffer the consequences. Share and Enjoy, :-Derek Currie -- Fortune Magazine 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today? Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool, not a challenge. <http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/> [Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'. He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software engineering in 1975.]
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01-21-2008	#2 (permalink)
Cymbal Man Freq. n/a posts	Re: Dawn Of Internet Video, REVENGE of Time Warner Cable! I've been watching YouTube aggressively and average 10-15 GB a month on this computer just to load the videos onscreen, and likely the same elsewhere to download andd save the videos. Today, MLK day, all I have is newsgroups, nothing in Internet Explorer works. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch from the weather?
My System Specs

01-21-2008	#3 (permalink)
Cymbal Man Freq. n/a posts	Re: Dawn Of Internet Video, REVENGE of Time Warner Cable! "Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxg> wrote in message news:4794e339$0$22574$4c368faf@xxxxxx \| I've been watching YouTube aggressively and average 10-15 GB a month on this \| computer just to load the videos onscreen, and likely the same elsewhere to \| download andd save the videos. Today, MLK day, all I have is newsgroups, nothing \| in Internet Explorer works. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch from the weather? \| I've downloaded 9.241 GB this month (January to date on this computer), uploaded 0.314 GB = Total u/d of 9.549 GB
My System Specs

01-21-2008	#4 (permalink)
Cymbal Man Freq. n/a posts	Re: Dawn Of Internet Video, REVENGE of Time Warner Cable! Uh, I had to reboot my computer & modem to get my internet back. RR cuts my signal to make me paranoid and once in a while I have to reboot everything to get my signals back.
My System Specs

01-23-2008	#5 (permalink)
DanS n/a posts	Re: Dawn Of Internet Video, REVENGE of Time Warner Cable! "Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxg> wrote in news:47950848$1$22662$4c368faf@xxxxxx: Quote: > Uh, I had to reboot my computer & modem to get my internet back. Quote: > RR cuts my signal to make me paranoid and once in a while I have to > reboot everything to get my signals back. Maybe it's not RR, maybe you're just paranoid.
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