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Yes that's all well and good Neil
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I know.
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However do you agree that the reason for imposing limits is to enable ntl to increase the number of people on it's netwok and not in any way due to concern of breach of copyright on other people's material?
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I have no idea as I don't work for ntl, but I would suspect it's a data capacity/cost issue (same as most ISPs I would think)
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The only people who should be concerned about this are the copyright holders themselves, yet for some reason there's loads of people on here who are also bothered.
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That depends on the legal teams & who they hold initially responsible I would suspect.
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I only use about 5 GB per month yet I'm not in favour of caps.
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Warez monkey!
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Apart from the fact that I may want to change my habits in the future, this is the thin end of the wedge. People are going to require more and more bandwidth in the future as files sizes get bigger. I'd expect people to be either against the caps or apathetic, not actively in favour.
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Horses for courses really, but I think most people's problem with ntl's cap, is that it was forced upon them quietly on a Friday afternoon, rather then them signing up to it knowingly & willingly.