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Originally Posted by astra_lestat

What you are sayingm just shows that you are ignorant of what the Internet is.
I will give you just 2 examples:
1. http://www.researchchannel.org/webcast/ 1300kbps
2. http://www.m1live.com/ 128kbps
Only 2 examples out of hundreds.
You ppl must think before posting your half-masked accusations.

Until Neil exposed it for what it is, the vast majority of people on this forum claimed they needed to download more than 30gb a month because they needed lots of Linux distros. The fact is that that reason is crap, and they were using p2p software. Neil helpfully blew that one out of the water.

I'm afraid it's a fact that the vast majority of people for whom 30gb caps are an issue are using the service for illegal purposes. Some in a private capacity, but others to burn CDs and make money. I accept there a small number of people with legitimate reasons to exceed 30gb but these really are few and far between when set against the customer base as a whole.

I occasionally get music through WinMx. Not nearly enough to go near a cap, but possibly six or seven items a month. However, I'm fully aware that this is deemed 'illegal activity' and I wouldn't expect my ISP, whoever they were, to support my doing that in any way. Nor would I claim on here that I was really downloading Linux distros.

If p2p suddenly got blocked somehow, I'd be disappointed, but I'd accept it, because I'm not making a living out of it.