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Originally Posted by Hatorade  The big man on Campus has spoken people. Stop all torrents so he can sleep at night. Oh and Torrents don't mean stealing. Yes that is what I use them for mainly but plenty of torrents are freeware. |
Oh yeah, I forgot about those who download every single fucking copy of linux ever released 20 times a day.
Sorry, but the legitimate use of that much data is almost nil for an single person. Any one person or or group of people who can traffic that much legit data could always spring for a business line or higher tier of service.
I mean in the end do I steal? Yeah sure I do, but I sure as hell dont go complaining to the world when my ISP sets a VERY generous cap on how much I can steal. I mean think just how much 250GB of data is;
40 to 50 games
10 to 15 tv shows
4000-5000 CDs
That is a fuckton of media.
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That's an extremely short-sighted viewpoint. It doesn't matter what people are using it for. It may be primarily torrents today, but other more legitimate things are consuming more and more bandwidth all the time. I would prefer that we don't go down ye olde slippery slope now and end up with some bullshit pricing scheme a few years later that we can't get rid of. The fact is, cable companies market their shit to be used by people who want to pirate. Nobody with half a brain believes that their advertising about "download at 10x the speed of DSL!" is meant for people who use iTunes. They've massively oversold the bandwidth they have available and now they want to blame it on the customers rather than upgrade their infrastructure in a timely manner.
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Sure they may of oversold their lines, but browsing youtube and downloading off itunes didnt bring the problem into the spotlight, piracy did.
