ISP clamps down on speed for legally viewing movies.
Rants and Ramblings April 17th, 2008
So I have been on a war path as of late with my ISP who shall remain nameless (Clear Wire) because they say I am using too much bandwidth and assumed I am using peer 2 peer to illegally download movies and music. Wrong answer fuckos. I have been trying to watch TV and movies for free legally by using hulu.com.
For those of you not familiar with hulu.com I wrote an article about here on my other blog before I started The Movie Whore. I am a big fan of the service. It is free TV shows and movies provided by the networks and the studios. They want you to come watch it for free. There are commercials but each commercial break is 15-30 seconds in length. They only play one ad. I am willing to meet them half way and watch a 3-5, 15-30 second ads if it means I can dump my cable box and watch what I want for free. Only problem is that as soon as I start streaming a video my ISP (Clear Wire) drops the hammer on my download speed. The shit slows down to nearly dial up speeds. I have placed several call to their tech support to be told time and time again that I using my internet excessively causing possible service interruptions for other customers. So I asked “What is excessive use?”
This seemed a fair question to me. After all I am merely trying to use a free and legal service paid for by the content owners. The one that really got me was the twit on the phone had not even heard about hulu.com. I was told I was personally responsible for infecting and office with hulu.com slowing their production for the day to nothing. I never could get a direct answer on what the definition of excessive is. Frankly I am paying the early termination fee and switching ISPs when I get my tax rebate check. Then maybe I can support antipiracy by choosing to watch stuff legally for free.
Anyway here is a list of what your missing if you don’t go check hulu.com out now.
http://www.hulu.com/popular/feature_films/today
By the way kids each hulu.com link is a different one of my favorite TV shows or movies that you can watch for free.
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April 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I had seen hulu.com about 6 months ago and was modestly impressed. I just went there now on your recommendation and am pretty blown away by the content they now have. Very cool stuff, glad to see many networks are seeing the light. Rock on.
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April 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Always trust the Movie Whore. It may not always be good but I guarantee it will be entertaining.
I love the site. They give you a wide variety and as it grows they will be adding more content. It is kind of like the Nielsen ratings. The content more you watch the more they are likely to add.
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