re bittorrent

[TM4526 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/8/04 11:33:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mkb at mukappabeta.de writes:
> Its become  widely used for "sharing" in the same way as Kazaa and
> other "point to point" as they're called protocols. Many ISPs block it,
> or at least substantially slow it down.

>Well.  Of course it can be abused for w4r3z aswell as used for legal 
>purposes.  If my ISP would block it or noticably slow it down, I would 
>consider changing to a different ISP.  And I think there's still a 
>difference in quality compared to things like edonkey, which are used 
>exclusively for "illegal" filesharing.

Its not a legal/illegal issue. Its a "using more bandwidth than you are
paying for" issue. Im sure if you were running bittorrent all day long
your ISP would be very glad to see you go.