Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 14:12 UTC
So should you pay up to $35 for their lowest 5GB plan, you just might be able to actually watch two HD films. Of course you can go over your limit if you're willing to pay $1 per additional gigabyte, a markup over cost of only 1,000 to 1,500% by Time Warner Cable. That's a bad deal however you slice it -- unless you work in marketing.
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The cable companies are very smart when it comes to maximizing their profits. They couldn't wait for movie downloads to become multi-GB so they could gouge us for wanting to watch more than a couple of movies. I can see Apple (iTunes), Amazon (UnBox), and Netflix all fighting the cable companies on this, as they would all be at risk of losing customers who feel they'd be paying twice for one product.
With a cap like this, it will also be nearly impossible to affordably pirate HD movies, so that whole demographic will be forced to go legit and buy their movies from the retail store. I'm not condoning piracy, simply pointing out that the MPAA has found a new way to curtail movie sharing through the ISP's caps.