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Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.


From: Todd Crane via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:57:51 -0700


At least Microsoft would get heat for unsolicited downloads. Why does Microsoft (allegedly) think they can download 
(unwanted or at least unsolicited) software to unsuspecting users computer, just to upsell them, at our expense? 20Gigs 
per household is a lot of data across a market. If it was metered, there would be at least some accountability.

On Jan 9, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:12:16 -0600, Mike Hammett said:
Bytes uploaded and\or downloaded. That's all that should matter. Initiated by
you or not.

You want to be the one explaining to your customer that the reason they
got charged for 20G of unexpected transfer was because their 3 Windows 8
machines each downloaded Windows 10 without telling them?

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