Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:49:45 EST From: TM4526@aol.com To: mkb@mukappabeta.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re bittorrent Message-ID: <1d4.2ed63932.2ec10bb9@aol.com>
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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.
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