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| quote: | Originally posted by urban_legend
My questions unless your illegally downloading TV shows or movies how are people going over this?
They say that 10 percent of users use 90 percent of the bandwidth.
I am ok with them doing this. |
New web pages use a lot of bandwidth. Youtube, flikr, facebook. The new internet is not text, it is media, legal and illegal.
I can do at least 100gigs/month on live sets alone. Add to that all the research, youtube, and pics I download, its easy to go over those limits.
Files are only getting bigger and our internet plans are only getting more restrictive.
The real motivation behind the excessive charges is not for bandwidth, but for you to buy more media products from media companies. Rogers and Bell fully realise that the internet is the best content delivery system ever invented, but they want you to buy their set top boxes instead. If excessive usage was the real issue, this policy would have been put in place more than five years go.
Excessive downloads have always been there and will always be there. They are not the reason the internet is 'clogged'. Usenet, FTP, IRC...these are technologies have been around a long time, and continue to be used a lot. The same people using torrents today are the same ones that used the older technologies years ago.
The funnies thing is that statistic of 10% of users using 90% of the bandwidth. I've seen studies that say as many as 80% of 'young' people use torrents and p2p. The term young is really anybody under 40. Thats a huge percentage of the population, and there for it cannot be only 10% of people using all that bandwidth. If that much of your customer base is actually using torrents and p2p, maybe that is what they should be allowed to do? The market is supposed to dictate what services are offered and for what prices, but this is a case of the big guy saying NO. Buy our products in this nice neat little package, because we did not think of using the internet first.
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