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Old 07-09-2003, 08:36   #311
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Originally posted by th'engineer
No it isnt you do not have the service to download the implied amount
This is nothing to do with the cap and trying to make it so will not advance that issue at all. No impartial reading of the advert could conclude that ntl is promising you the ability to d/l more than the 1gb limit. The advert doesn't use the word 'unlimited' (none of them do any more) and when it talks about 400,000 - 600,000 movies being downloaded a day ... well, there's absolutely no way any reasonable person could infer from that that they are saying one user could d/l that much.

Like it or not, this advert is controversial for one reason, and one reason only: ntl is advertising a service with the implication that downloading illegal material from the internet is a good thing.

I disagree with the cap; I think that on principle the internet is not a commodity and should not be sold as such. However trying to see the cap behind everything ntl says and does is not constructive.
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