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Originally Posted by Phogg
Are you living in some magical cloud kingdom in which customers who have lost their internet by a mistaken allegation arent going to be taking ISPs to court, backed by the local judiciary?
And if say a disabled person who gets meds for a heart condition and six other things dies during the service interruption...what do you think the award will be?
I expect this to become an empty threat in pretty short order due to the obvious liabilities it will create for the ISPs.
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Most people, if they lose their connection, they just simply go to another company. The average person doesn't have the time, or money, to start a lawsuit. About 10 years back, my aunt had her ISP drop her, with a false claim. What made it worse for her, was her account technically wasn't even the one being targeted. The person who was supposed to get their connection killed had a different name and lived several hours away from her. It was an obvious clerical error, but the ISP refused to remedy it. It would have been far more of a hassle to sue than to merely switch ISPs. I mean, think about it, lawsuits take months or years to sort out, and for the majority of them, what you are awarded if you win, isn't enough to pay for costs. My experience with lawsuits has been that way. I went after someone for vandalizing a computer of mine in a lab, and while everything was overwhelmingly in my favor (witnesses, etc), it still took over a year before everything was finalized. The award was the replacement cost of the system, however it didn't take into account the time I had to take off work to goto court and dealing with the postponements on their part, the mediator meetings, etc.
Also, a person dies because they didn't get medicine, because they weren't online? Uhm, name me a legit pharmacy company that is 100% online, without a physical store, or number to call. That is a bit far fetched.