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Just Launched - Forums!

Saturday, May 24th, 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.
Boycott Rogers Forums

Boycott Rogers Communications Facebook Group!

Tuesday, March 18th, 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 [...]

Rogers Tests Content Injection

Tuesday, December 11th, 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.

Site Updates & Email Addresses

Wednesday, December 5th, 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 [...]

Lets start a nag fest!

Monday, June 18th, 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 [...]

Rogers now restricting PVRs with broadcast flag

Tuesday, June 5th, 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 [...]

Michael Geist summs up the Rogers situation quite nicely

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

His article can be found here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1876/1/

Welcome

Monday, April 9th, 2007

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.