Scummy Swines

February 23rd, 2004

Went to The Computer Shop on Saturday to see about the dodgy modem. Lo and behold, the conspiracy theory was correct. The modem had been rigged to dial only one number. You could only use it with ‘Supanet Internet’ and it would refuse to dial any other ISP.

We got a phone number to call that has someone on the other end to talk you through the process of ‘deoptimising’ the modem. You heard that right – the modem had been ‘optimised’ by ensuring that the ‘browser, modem, drivers and ISP were integrated together to ensure better reliability’.

I’m pretty sure that there’s some part of competition law that makes this sort of thing illegal. I think I’ll send a wee email to AOL and Microsoft who have lawyers much more capable of checking that for me. Oooh, I feel all… evil.

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