re bittorrent

[Matthias Buelow]

TM4526 at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

I'm paying for a flatrate (ADSL) at home.  I don't use the bandwidth 
most of the time, simply because I have no interest in leeching movies 
without end, but a lot of others do.  In fact, the ISP has just upped 
the downstream from 768 to 1024 kbit/s at no extra cost.  Many people I 
know have p2p-stuff running day and night.  I mean, the company isn't 
giving you the bandwidth for altruistic reasons either, you pay them 
money for it.

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   Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de