Re: BT Total Broadband

On 2 Apr, 14:39, "Norman Wells" <no-...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cynic wrote:

You arrogantly presume that everyone uses the Internet in the same
manner that you do.  2GB wouldn't last me a day's worth of perfectly
legal Internet activities, let alone a month.

Then you'd have to show genuine need and be licensed for a higher bandwidth.
I'm sorry if you'd be one who would be disadvantaged, but the vast majority
of people wouldn't be, and it would solve or dramatically reduce the problem
of blatant copyright infringement, so it would be a good thing overall.  

You don't seem to grasp just how many people (using the internet
legitimately) *would* be disadvantaged by such a low limit - I get the
impression that a few hours on Myspace will probably ratchet up 1GB of
data downloading.

Also, you don't seem to grasp the fact that most people don't give a
toss about copyright infringement, and the only people for whom it
will be "good overall" are the record companies - for most other
people, all they'll see is the same media content at a substantially
higher price, once the record company can rely on throttled internet
as a bridle and bit against pirates.

You're not a record company executive at all, are you?


You can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs as they say.

Anyway, just what are you up to, using 2GB a day?

My old man, he's retired now but was a computer programmer. He's only
just upgraded to broadband, and when I rang up the company to cancel
his dial-up (a package that was priced competitively back in 1997),
the response came back "what's dial-up? are you sure it's a service we
provide?".

Now, I could understand someone like the old man saying he doesn't
need that much bandwidth. But surely an intelligent man in touch with
the modern world like yourself (please correct me...), can understand
that some people, indeed many people, will be making use of their
connections such that their downloads can easily reach a number of GBs
per day, and furthermore surely you understand that there are many,
many legitimate ways accruing that amount of downloaded data, without
any resort at all to pirate downloads.

Steaming television, content rich sites, online film rentals and
purchases, iTunes, etc, and (in some households) 2 adults and 2
children all doing the same thing with the same connection, are
legitimate ways in which the download limit can be reached.
.

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