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Originally Posted by Psychotext
I probably should have been clearer. I meant early adopters, not excessive users when I said "Super User".
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There is quite a lot of difference between early adopters and superusers. I was using networked computers over long distances before most of you were born. I had my first home modem in 1982. The fact that I was one of the first early adapters doesn't mean that I want to download several gig a day. I know quite a lot of users who download as if there was no tomorrow and the vast majority of them are pretty new to the internet. They haven't got tired yet of downloading for all they're worth, copying it all to CD and DVD because they soon fill their hard disks quickly. The thing with them is that they hardly ever listen to, watch or play what they have downloaded. The most they do with it is give copies to friends. I don't know anyone who sells it but no doubt some do. The early adapters that I know have got fed up with constantly downloading and do very little of it.
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Originally Posted by Psychotext
This has been done to death, there are plenty of threads around here on how you could legally do 10gb a day with ease.
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No one is doubting that you can download 10Gb a day legally, it's quite east to find that volume of legal downloads. But to do it day in and day out, every day, every week is absolute rubbish.
There is a lot of mention of what you will be able to do on the internet in the future. Many are saying that you won't be able to do these things on a NTL connection. Why not? This isn't the future it is now. Who knows what pricing and usage control there will be in the future? The problem today is that there is a minority of internet users who use the majority of ISPs resources and are not willing to pay the price for what they use. These are the ones who are holding back progress.