A contract of a different nature is causing a 30-year-old Italian artisan consternation.
A well-known mobile phone company has charged the man 50,000 euros (NT$2.14 million) for downloading three movies from the Internet via his mobile phone.
They have been "billed" as the most expensive films in history:
According to a report Tuesday in Bergamo's local newspaper, the man, who has not been named, was convinced that his Vodafone "Connect 600" subscription allowed unlimited downloading.
"I would leave my PC on all night, believing that all traffic was included," the man was quoted as saying.
In fact, the plan allows users to download a total of 600 megabytes every two months, with excess traffic billed at two cents per kilobyte.
Given that compressed movies, on average, are about 600 megabytes each, it is not difficult to understand how he ran up such an astronomical bill.
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