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Originally Posted by Sgt.Stubby
It's absolutely foolish to dictate how the packets are produced or used. I don't give a rats ass how someone generates or reads a packet - just how much traffic they add to the congestion and whether a packet is malicious.
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I don't see what the problem in understanding this is. The 3G was fundamentally meant for the Kindle Store+translations+Wikipedia. Amazon out of the goodness of their heart allowed unhindered browsing with the assumption that on an e-ink device you will never use enough data to become a problem.
Once people started exploiting that connection, Amazon was forced to redefine what was acceptable use. Tethering is ONE WAY to allow you to use far more data than Amazon ever anticipated or was willing to fund, and anyone who assumed Amazon was fine with that is a fool.
All Amazon did was rein in the usage back to what they intended when they offered the service to begin with, and screw the literal meaning of their offer. Which is perfectly fair. You hack the device to make use of a data connection which was never meant for any purpose other than the device's built-in browser, you get what's coming to you.
Seriously, what are you upset about? That you can't make use of the Kindle's 3G connection "for browsing in our experimental browser" as a means to download tons of data on your laptop? I mean, really. What right do you have to that to begin with? The only people who have ANY right to complain are the people who are using the BUILT-IN BROWSER abnormally often, to the point where they accidentally hit Amazon's data cap meant to stop any future hacks before they get started. And it's not Amazon's fault if that happens, it is yours. You did this to all those innocent e-ink browser-users.