Well, the FCC may have put down the gavel against Comcast BitTorrent throttling last month, but it isn't all good news for customers -- the ISP has announced it will limit its cable internet bandwidth for homes to 250GB per month starting October 1.

Now, this won't be a big deal for most internet users (Comcast claims median high-speed users consume 2 to 3GB/mo.), but for gamer folk who sometimes use lots of bandwidth for say, digital distribution services like GamersGate, iTunes, Netflix, Xbox Live, and/or the PlayStation Network, this could be a problem. Of course, if you're downloading 250GB+ of data each month, you might want to consider going outside and stuff instead.

No charge is planned for exceeding the cap, but repeat offenders will have their accounts terminated. This seems at least slightly illogical -- if you're going to limit users, you should give them the option to pay to go over that limit, right? I'm assuming money is the only real thing at stake here, this being a business and all. Sounds like an infringement on freedom to me. I suppose they're making it a take it or leave it situation.

In any case, the greater worry among customers is Comcast will gradually lower this bar, using 250GB as a generous starting point (before the slow but sure descent into hell); other large cable providers like Time Warner and Cox Communications are currently testing caps as low as 5GB. The Internet is getting a scary place to be, friends.