re bittorrent

TM4526 at aol.com TM4526 at aol.com
Mon Nov 8 12:04:35 PST 2004


In a message dated 11/8/04 1:23:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mkb at mukappabeta.de writes:
> 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.

This is a technical forum? Yikes!


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