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Originally posted by ColKurtz
another good development could be when cable modems start charging more for bandwidth.
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Won't happen, not in the long run. Think about it like this. A normal cable modem user in 2004 might download 2 movies per week from
www.movielink.com with a 1 gig cap per month, instead of paying 4.99 for a movie, he'll really be paying 7$, and pretty soon no one will be download shit anymore.
Streaming music/radio stations/talk shows etc. You can easily burn 3 gigs in a day listening to a station, thats 14$ a day with a 7$ per gig overage on a cable modem.
I don't think premium charges for bandwidth on cable modems will work in the long run....EVER.