Start­ing Octo­ber 1, 2008, Com­cast will put a cap on Inter­net usage. Say­ing that 250 GB cap is 100 times more than the aver­age usage. Accord­ing to Com­cast, that’s the equiv­a­lent of down­load­ing 62, 500 songs or 125 stan­dard def­i­n­i­tion movies per month in order for any­one to exceed the cap.

That just blows my mind to have a cap on Inter­net usage. The arti­cle goes on fur­ther to spec­u­late on what else is com­ing down the line like broad­band meter­ing where con­sumers are charged for speed and usage.

Is this a chill­ing effect or what? What’s also inter­est­ing is that Com­cast was recently found by the FCC to be “improp­erly” inhibit­ing the usage of many Inter­net users who were using Bit­Tor­rent, a file shar­ing pro­gram. Do you see it? I see it and I don’t much like it.