lol, i thought this comment off the linked story was rather telling, and might wise all ISP users up?,and stop running away and act, perhaps not!....
still, its an interesting way to get your old BT line activation costs etc payed for so you can migrate off cable to ADSL+ etc....
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By Ian
Posted Thursday 3rd May 2007 09:50 GMT
As the title says,
it doesn't matter what the ASA and OFCOM think, what ISPs are doing has no legal standing.
On the contrary, I and I know others have successfully taken their ISP to the small claims court when we've been bottlenecked for breaching unpublished barriers.
Demon Internet imposed a a bandwidth cap a few months ago but refused to publicly state what it was.
When I got a letter saying I'd be limited to 128kbps speeds for a full month for imposing a 60gb cap
I put in a small claims court challenge online.
I claimed for 1 months subscription, sign-up costs to a new ISP, 1 months loss of online gaming subscriptions (XBox live and World of Warcraft), loss of business due to the fact I was unable to realistically perform my web design business on the connection (they say 128kbps, but it's more like dialup 4k/s downloads etc.).
Demon settled for a few hundred quid - they know they don't have a case.
I suggest more and more people do this, perhaps when it starts costing the ISPs more to rip us off than they gain from ripping us off they'll start listening......"