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Originally Posted by dirtydog
You may not realise this but Suse and other Linux producers make little or no money from their releases. (Suse do charge for some; others like Ubuntu are totally free). Bandwidth costs them a lot of money, so one way of helping Linux devs is to distribute their distros via p2p.
The Linux sites themselves ask people to use bittorrent and to leave their client running afterwards as it 'saves us money'. It is called giving back to the Linux community, rather than just taking.
Neil, I know you think you are clever but trust me.. you aren't  Your patronising replies get boring very quickly. You refuse to acknowledge there are legal and legitimate reasons for running a p2p client 24/7 and uploading 1gig a day. |
I do accept that there may be legal and legitimate reasons for running a p2p client 24/7.
What I don't accept is that you choose to do this from a residential connection that is controlled by an AUP, that you choose to ignore and then complain about when ntl decide to put in place projects to enforce the AUP.
If you choose to do this, legal as it might be, the residential ntl connection is not the transport it should be done over, find a supplier that would accept this type of usage.
I guarantee that should you approach an ISP explaining what it is you want to do, you would be directed towards a business connection, as this is not NORMAL residential behaviour.