legal or illegal

[chickeneater]

how would you ever get busted?

They are part of the government, them FBI's. They have their ways...

I am in Southern California, and I have never even heard of limited downloading, ever. i download tons of stuff and the company never tells us of any extra charge... but since i never upload, not that much at least that i know of. our company, and every single company out there does not like, and downloading is fine.

[gd_nimrod]

@ chickeneater: So then you "leech files"

@enchanter: Still, even 140$/month for every extra gig is unimaginable. Those greedy ISP basterds, that gig that you download even if it is warez, it certainly is NOT worth that 140$...

[hacker_on_fire]

these isp's make no sense to me. why give high connection speeds of like 3-8mbit when they limit you so much on bandwidth.

so greedy!!

[chickeneater]

what does "leech files" mean, because i have never heard of it before?

[gd_nimrod]

Leech: noun : Person who downloads files from the internet without giving anything in return.
-ing: verb act of not sharing with the p2p community.

[chickeneater]

so is leeching bad? i always just have one upload available going at all times so i guess that i am just a partial leecher

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by chickeneater
so is leeching bad? i always just have one upload available going at all times so i guess that i am just a partial leecher

Depends. Just don't do it excessively.

[gd_nimrod]

Think of it this way:

If noone shared, where would YOU download your files? <---That used to be my signature

[Enchanter]

You do understand that I'm not in the position to leech, let alone share files, don't you?

[gd_nimrod]

Of course, that cap must be huge piss-off

Let me brag a bit by saying that my ISP just increased the monthly download cap to 10gigs! Still better than 6 that i had before, and your 3gigs

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by gd_nimrod
Of course, that cap must be huge piss-off

Let me brag a bit by saying that my ISP just increased the monthly download cap to 10gigs! Still better than 6 that i had before, and your 3gigs

Damn it. Wait till I change my ISP.

[gd_nimrod]

Are there ISP's where you are that don't have a download cap? It would seem to me that they would have a monopoly over the other capped isp's...

[Enchanter]

There are, and I'm hoping to switch to one of them. However, the process is not quite straight-forward and I can expect to wait for up to 2 months before the new connection is up (during which time I won't have any connection since the ISP requries that the phone line be freed of any previous connection. This is what is holding me back).

[chickeneater]

so let me get this strait. a download cap is when you are limited from downloading every month? because i have an 80 GB hard drive, and fille it up with downloads in 2 weeks! is that so?

[chickeneater]

and apparently gd_nimrod, our ISP does not have a download cap... i suppose that that is good if you download lots of stuff.