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Originally Posted by ian@huth
The heavy users I am talking about are mainly the ones that think downloading less than 5Gb per day every day is not using broadband as it should be used. I get rather p****d off with members who quote all the legal uses of their connection such as downloading linux distros, downloading paid for films and music, etc then post a complaint about poor speeds and back this up with evidence that they are ripping off films that have only just been released in the cinemas. I'm sorry that I may offend some people but the blunt fact is that leass than 10% of users consume more than half the bandwidth in this country and most of this is mostly pirated material. These users are the main reason for caps. There is no justification for breaking the law but many otherwise law abiding people seem to think that as there is no physical object involved then it isn't stealing.
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You have a point, but you cant overprice things and expect people to pay it. Everything goes up x% each year, yet people's salaries go up y% which isnt as high as x%. People are basically coming out with less money that they can spend on such things as going to the cinema etc. That is why piracy is as big as it is and it aint gonna change until the people who price things realise they're pricing themselves out of a huge amount of business.
I have very little disposable income that we can use on such trips out so I admit, I do watch some copied films. I dont download them as it takes too damn long (yes, I did try once - gave up after about 1hr and ~300Mb) and the internet is much better being put to use on genuine things like the kids on Miniclip.com etc (which is where 90% of our used bandwidth goes I'm sure).
1Gb is unrealistic for everyone. 2Gb is more like it. People need a damn good excuse for breaking 2Gb. We frequently do over 1Gb (albeit not much over) but we've never passed 2Gb which makes it more realistic for people with more than 1 PC in the house or people who have 1 PC thats never out of use by family etc).
They need to monitor areas with no advance warning and those found to be excessively passing the limits over a period of time should be dropped from the service or offered a slower service as the maximum available to them.
As for stealing things which have no physical object... you're illegally obtaining the right to watch/listen/use the film/song/program. You're not stealing it as the original owner can still use it too. "Stealing" is a word used to cover a large area of actions... the majority of which are not what the word ACTUALLY means.