From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 17:49:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA46E16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:49:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m24.mx.aol.com (imo-m24.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E9743D5D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:49:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4526@aol.com) Received: from TM4526@aol.com by imo-m24.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id y.1d4.2ed63932 (3310); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:49:45 -0500 (EST) From: TM4526@aol.com Message-ID: <1d4.2ed63932.2ec10bb9@aol.com> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:49:45 EST To: mkb@mukappabeta.de MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re bittorrent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:49:57 -0000 In a message dated 11/8/04 11:33:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, mkb@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.