Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:04:26 EST From: TM4526@aol.com To: mkb@mukappabeta.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re bittorrent Message-ID: <103.53ca812f.2ec12b4a@aol.com>
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In a message dated 11/8/04 1:23:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, mkb@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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