Just Launched - Forums!
By Ryan | May 24, 2008
Hi Everyone,
I am happy to announce that we have just launched a forum section to the website. I encourage everyone to use the forums to openly discuss your experiences with Rogers and offer up any advice that you may have.
Registration is pretty easy, so click on over and check it out.
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Boycott Rogers Communications Facebook Group!
By Xetheriel | March 18, 2008
Hey all!
Join the Facebook group “Boycott Rogers Communications” and spread the boycott. Facebook is a very powerful attention grabbing group. I will pass around this group to various places and lets see if we can’t send a message to this corporation, that traffic shaping and various other less than desirable practices will not be tolerated.
Nothing will ever change if we simply accept what they are doing, and if we accept it, its only a matter of time before other ISP’s start doing the same things.
Join now. 
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Rogers Tests Content Injection
By Ryan | December 11, 2007
Rogers has begun trialing a new “service” via which it adds content to web pages requested by subscribers via JavaScript. Net neutrality advocates believe that this could be a sign that more abusive content modification is coming. Ars Technica has more on the story.
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Site Updates & Email Addresses
By Ryan | December 5, 2007
Since you last visited, this website has undergone a few silent upgrades to improve performance and stability. I must apologize but it seems our contact form was broken for an unidentifiable period of time. If anyone tried to contact us and has yet to receive a reply, I encourage you to submit your comments again or email us at info {at} boycottrogers(.)com. With any luck, my modifications to the comment from should improve it indefinitely. *crosses fingers*
Since we rely on Google Apps for our domain hosted email, we have decided to expand our email system to include causal website visitors. If you would like to voice your concerns over Rogers’ bandwidth throttling policies, you can submit a request for an @boycottrogers.com email address. Everyone you email will then see your support for a Rogers boycott. Hopefully this type of viral marketing will draw others to the cause.
Your @boycottrogers.com email address will provide you with almost 5.5GBs of email storage with up to 20MBs of allowed emal attachments all served up in the familiar Gmail web interface. To submit a request please email me at ryan {at} boycottrogers(.)com with your full name and desired email address. Login instructions will be sent to whichever address your request was sent from.
Cheers,
-Ryan
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Lets start a nag fest!
By Xetheriel | June 18, 2007
Hey everybody!
It was recently brought to my attention that Rogers doesn’t feel its getting enough calls about its packet shaping. (They said they were almost non-existent)
So how bout we show them how many of us are dissatisfied with that kind of service. Call often, and make it a nice long call, ask for supervisors, and demand better service! Your paying them for an unrestricted unlimited internet connection, so why don’t you fight for it?
I’m not even a Rogers customer, and I might call them a few times, just to shake them up!
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Rogers now restricting PVRs with broadcast flag
By admin | June 5, 2007
Engdaget writes that Rogers and Shaw are both using the broadcast flag to prevent people trying to save their television shows for later viewing on their Windows PCs from doing so. Apparently it’s ok to use a VCR and tape it, but not ok to do the same with as computer.
For an overview of how the broadcast flag works, here is the Wikipedia article
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Michael Geist summs up the Rogers situation quite nicely
By admin | May 17, 2007
His article can be found here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1876/1/
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Welcome
By admin | April 9, 2007
*Update - Promote your opinion, request a BoycottRogers.com email address*
This site is about the Canadian ISP Rogers’ decision to fight against the peer to peer file sharing protocol Bittorrent. They advertise plans with varying speeds, but do not honor them for certain types of online activities like using Bittorrent.
This is like your electric company regulating how you use your electricity- reducing the current available to you when you use a microwave because microwaves can be used for illegal purposes. Sure, the microwave can be used to aid in the production of illegal narcotics, but many people just use it to reheat dinner.
Bittorrent is an internet protocol- simply a tool that allows people to distribute files without having to own a large expensive server. It is used by many software development groups to make their programs available to the public, as well many other people for benign reasons. Some people use it to transfer illegally copied files, however the protocol itself is just a convenient conduit as are usenet, irc, and ftp- other protocols commonly used for illegal activity.
Rogers is not doing this reduction in service for Bittorrent because of their moral stance on illegal file sharing, they’re doing it because it saves them money. They advertise a upload/download limit, but then expect 99% of their clients never to use the capacity. Bittorrent and streaming media (from Youtube or something similar) both require large amounts of bandwidth and both can be used for questionable activities, but Bittorrent is what’s being crippled. This is simply opportunism. Bittorrent is an open protocol that is not owned by anyone, however streaming media companies have lawyers to fight back with.
Well, Bittorrent may not have lawyers, but Rogers has customers. Customers who are getting fed up with being unfairly treated. Customers who believe in net neutrality. Soon to be customers of other ISPs. Cancel your account. We’ll give you as much help as we can to ensure you do not pay a cancellation fee. If you do cancel, don’t be a member of the silent majority- tell us about it. More importantly, tell Rogers’ management about it. If you can’t get out without a fee, publicly pledge that you will cancel at the first possible moment unless Rogers changes their policy.
This issue has been getting attention from some major players in the Canadian Net Neutrality debate. It’s time something was done.
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