From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 18:23:22 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 4DE8216A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:23:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAAD43D3F for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:23:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [132.187.9.61] (unknown [132.187.9.61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1532D3F; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:18:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <418FB9B0.5020104@mukappabeta.de> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:23:44 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041022 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: TM4526@aol.com References: <1d4.2ed63932.2ec10bb9@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <1d4.2ed63932.2ec10bb9@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:23:22 -0000 TM4526@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. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de