You know that exorbitant monthly fee you pay to your cable provider for broadband Internet access, which you’ve been using to update your iPod and get your Xtube.com fix? Comcast, the nation’s second-largest ISP, wants to cap your ass — potentially at 250 gigabytes per month, and charging any customer who goes over the limit. [BW] Its been their policy for a while now to actually phone customers who go over a 2 gigabyte ceiling and tell ‘em to cool it, or risk having their account canceled.

If you’re just considering download (and not upload) traffic, that’s about 50 high-def movies or more than 6,000 songs each month.

Or, according to Comcast, “excessive users” are those who download 50,000 songs per month or send 40 million emails. Um, we call those people spammers.