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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. |
To be fair, just because they tell you to do it, doesn't mean you have to. If they told you to make 500 copies and give them out at the local shopping centre would you do that too?
There are good points on both sides, and i think for once ntl have got it right. Most of us can accept that if our useage is affecting other people on our UBR, then it's unfair. I don't want some familiy down the road suffering slow surfing because of me. And also, i don't want to be capped, when there are times i could do my downloading and not affect anyone. I just hope ntl enforce it sensibly. If someone does go over a lot, and affects other people, then i hope ntl will suggest off peak downloading, or find a way around it, rather than just cutting them off, lowering them to 56k etc.