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Originally Posted by Womble
But I still thing that 1gig a day is more than plenty for the average home user. It would be interesting to see, if everyone complaining about the cap stated what there downloads consisted of, and are they from legal sources. As for gaming etc, you could play for 24hrs and get nowhere near 1gig transfer, yes some of the mods are large but you only download them every now and then
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I think that you have used the very word that is key here...average. By definition that means that there will be people who use less than that (and they do) and there will be people that need more than that. Right now it is black and white (although the enforcement of it is far from it). You have this much, end of story. How would it be if ntl sent letters saying I was watching too much TV, or calling too many people on the phone?
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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble
Why would that bring anything to the discussion? Are you an employee of FACT or someone from the BPI? What difference does the nature of the downloads matter. It's being downloaded, that's the issue. What is an 'average user'? People pay for a faster connection, because they have a lot of data, be it legal or illegal, that they want downloaded. They want it and they want it quickly. The fact they will pay more for this means they are not average users if you compare them with someone doing occasional browsing on 150k!
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Any in any case I seem to recall that it is not actually illegal to download copyrighted material, but it is illegal to upload it or use it once you have downloaded it. I might be wrong on that but I seem to remember that from way back when.