Originally Posted by
zot
This seems to be the business strategy of NewsDemon/Thundernews for many years:
1. offer amazing price specials on "unlimited" usenet, and get 'viral' publicity and an enormous flood of signups.
2. Throttle everyone who uses too much,
3. Lie about throttling anyone and blame the slow speeds on the customer's internet provider.
4. If throttled customer continues downloading, then cancel account and refuse all further communication.
5. Pocket the unrefunded remainder of the month for evicted bandwidth hogs.
6. Watch and smile as competitors are forced to raise their prices, since they end up getting all the hungry users.
7. Keep as customers all the people who barely use any bandwidth
8. ... and laugh all the way to the bank.
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