Cable exec says 1Gbps Internet is only good for piracy

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Cable exec says 1Gbps Internet is only good for piracy
By John Callaham

We have been reporting a lot on how more ISPs in the US have been trying to offer faster and faster Internet speeds to its customers. Much has been reported on Google's plans to offer 1 Gbps Internet access to the residents of Kansas City sometime in 2012. We have also reported on small ISP Sonic.net which plans to offer a few customers 1 Gbps Internet speeds in a small California town for the price of just $70 a month. Last week Comcast demoed a 1 Gpbs Internet connection even though the company doesn't have plans to offer such service anytime soon.

But it looks like at least one cable executive doesn't care for giving customers fast and cheap Internet speeds. Multichannel News reports that after the Comcast demo at the Cable Show trade show in Chicago last week a "very senior cable-tech exec, discussing the Comcast 1-Gbps demo, said bluntly, 'I just don?t see any other application for that other than piracy.'" The reporter didn't name the exec or what company he worked for because "the conversation was not a formal interview, and he wasn?t expecting to be quoted."

If that quote is indeed true it shows the attitude that cable operators and other ISPs have on offering faster Internet access to customers. The US as a whole is well behind much of the rest of the industrial world in terms of Internet speeds. South Korean ISPs want to offer up 1 Gpbs net speeds to every single person in the country by the end of 2012.

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[Gh0st]

Well he is a certified douchebag.

[aishamontreal]

He is correct, it will be a high-tech weapon for piracy.. no one needs 1gbps to browse websites. It should be only allowed scientific experiments, companies and government.

[CloudShadow]

He is correct you know, why would any normal user need a 1GB connection? You can browse facebook, watch youtube videos and do loads of other things on a 10-20mb line very easily.

A 1GB line is a pirate download heaven.

[ShareShiz]

this guy is living in the dial-up age.

welcome to the age of streaming and online backup. we want our shit now. we want it FAST.

100Mb is outdated.

btw. piracy was around during dial up, cable, and is already being used on 1gbps, 2gbps and even 10gbps

[Hyper Freak]

I wish this could come to my country so i could finaly get out this slow 5bs/s connection.

[Cory]

If I were to get 1 Gbps Connection in my place of business, it wouldn't be for piracy, but simply cut costs from paying monthly bills to data centers, but in hindsight, I would be paying a little more to build my own servers and hopefully in the long run it would pay off, cause I would also have to have backup generators, cooling and good backbone of at least 1 Gbps per Server. (At least 10 servers or more...)

Granted some of these dedicated boxes would be used for 'Virtual Private Servers'; therefore people ordering would more than like using it for piracy.

[NewEraCracker]

I want to download all new apache/php/mysql releases in a few seconds and not in a few minutes.

Those are free as far as I am aware of? Or am I pirating them too?

Hoping to see 1gbps around my country sometime as well.