Rogers: leading the way to a less functional internet
Rogers (Internet, Cable, Home Phone, Mobile, Music Store, and, I think, fascist regime in a small part of South Asia) are pioneers when it comes to fucking their customers. They were one of the first ISPs to block (well, packet shape) BitTorrent Traffic, claiming it used up to much bandwidth.
Creative as pirates are, however, there was soon an easy way to encrypt your traffic and avoid the package shaping. Rogers, frustrated by the rights of their customers to use the service they’re paying for, decided the best way to solve this problem was to block all encrypted traffic. All encrypted traffic. Me, a paying Roger’s customer (with the most expensive plan), then get’s frustrated when my shit doesn’t work. Because of course, it’s not like they sent me an email about it when they fucked me over, no, I was left to be frustrated until I read about it on the internet.
Ok, rant over. Those fuckers make me angry though. I was going to wait till I moved to switch ISPs, but I don’t think I will now.
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