Do it often enough and given the overload of manual labor associated with that there’s a big chance the company will give up.

It’s nothing but greed!!!!!

Furthermore, as comcast and the other metered ISPs are now imposing limits on your usage, then it is incumbent on them to provide the customer with a running meter which they can monitor themselves as well. It is obvious that comcast and time warner et al can monitor you, why not provide a summary page by account which shows this? Instead they state you must find ways to measure how much each device on your network is using. Unbelievable. They actually have the number but refuse to provide it on a webpage? Comcastic.

In many respects this is a way for Comcast to attempt to control what their competition can offer on the broadband pipeline. They want to FORCE you to only use THEIR pay per view, their video service, their VOIP. Imagine if your local power company only wanted you to buy electrical appliances and consumer electronics devices from them and capped your use if you used devices or services which did not originate from them.

Having said that, I do understand his opposition to the concept of limits, whatever that limit may be. I also disagree with your assertion that the other 99.9% are beneficiaries; only the few dozen people on the same cable segment and channel are negatively affected by the higher usage, unless Comcast’s backhaul or backbone is saturated – and with most of those heavy users being P2P, the other P2P users on Comcast actually benefit from that: some of those 250+ Gb of traffic will be going to other Comcast users as seeding traffic, benefiting them.