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Comcast should be sued...again.
datora:
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I currently upload ~1.8 TB per month. Due to current lack of hard drive space, my downloading has diminished a lot, so it's something like under 100 GB month now. Currently on Verizon FiOS, which is fairly pricey for my bandwidth, but it has been exceptionally reliable and with excellent service.
I've been really careful to rarely involve myself with "traditional" copyrighted materials ... almost never Hollywood movies, very little North American & European CDs for music. I can borrow nearly any CD, DVD or BluRay imaginable from local libraries to watch &/or rip at my pleasure.
I don't game, and I rely mostly on open source software. I do occasionally grab a copy of Windows or Photoshop, but have many means other than torrenting for those needs. Windows can be downloaded from Microsoft now anyway; it's getting the key (or a decent crack) that's the hard part. I've purposely looked for & supported public domain material for the majority of my torrenting. Collected a lot of bootleg music that doesn't fall under copyright protection.
So, I'll be watching carefully to see what happens to me. I'll be totally & royally fucked off if Verizon comes after me just for torrenting/bandwidth use. I pay a lot for it and am unusually aware & compliant when it comes to copyright issues. I think the current laws suck immeasurably, and the industries have completely run amok with their greed, but I also don't have the time & resources to fight them. Or the corrupt politicians they buy off to get away with this sort of shit.
What I do is deny them any of my money, and have for a long time. I spent tens of thousands of dollars from the early 1980s through about 1995-ish, at which point my cashflow into their accounts has virtually dried up to near-zero. For the amount of money I spent over the years, I figure I've bought a lifetime membership to any fucking thing I wish to listen to or watch at this point. If more people did that, they would lack the funding they require to pull some of the crap they do.
Here's one of the real kickers with ISPs: if they restrict your bandwidth due to your torrenting activities, you can just downgrade to their lowest level services. Who the fuck needs a 15 ro 20 Gb/sec download if there's nothing to use it on? I sure as fucking shit ain't gonna spend any money buying the privilege to watch a shitty Netflix rip once, in addition to paying for high-speed broadband. The ISPs are going to suddenly find themselves with a much higher percentage of customers with baseline service contracts. If it wasn't for my torrenting ... in large part of legal material ... I probably don't need more than about 50 GB per month, maybe 100 tops. I don't even waste enough time at youtube to boost my download stats.
mgz:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on May 04, 2012, 07:56:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on May 04, 2012, 02:13:38 PM ---BakaBT Country Statistics. US users make up around 1/5th of the site's userbase, so if the site were to lose all of them, it would have quite an effect.
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That's a tad higher than I thought it was. Maybe I'm just naive, but I usually expect closer to 1/2 of the users on any site being American.
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its ok sweden has 1/6 the users and more upload
so just get another 3000 swedes and we will do fine
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on May 04, 2012, 07:56:56 PM ---That's a tad higher than I thought it was. Maybe I'm just naive, but I usually expect closer to 1/2 of the users on any site being American.
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The founder of the site was British, current registered owner is (if I remember correctly is) a Serbian, the domain is from Montenegro. The only thing I don't know for sure is where the server is located. Other than that I am unsure of what makes this site "American".
datora:
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--- Quote from: AceHigh on May 05, 2012, 03:17:24 AM ---I am unsure of what makes this site "American".
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It's on the Internet. We invented it, we own it. Now, get off our lawn! :police:
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on May 05, 2012, 03:17:24 AM ---The only thing I don't know for sure is where the server is located.
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The IP geolocation database says the server is in Netherlands.
But since the site is in English and does not have a TLD belonging to English speaking countries other than the US, Americans assume it's American :)
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