You know, it's going to be amusing when ntl users are downloading ITV at some point in the future, all evening and night, high def, high bandwidth, and the peeps downloading compressed avis are going to start to get cross...
IMNAL but I happen to know that on the trollish point (aimed in both directions) on whether downloading copyrighted works is illegal,
unauthorized distribution in the UK is
unlawful, usually actionable in civil law.
It's academic tho; I download heavily, podcasts, video podcasts, content-rich websites, vids, animations. That's all perfectly lawful. Additionally, in my experience, there's no throttling of binary newsgroups.
