Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2413 mails)

[Amedee Van Gasse <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Dowie schreef:
> > 3 - Lots of other people have to be leaving their torrent clients
> > running to serve up content even when they are not trying to
> > download a file themselves. Some people do this. I can't really say
> > if it's many or not. I only rarely use the torrenrt system, but
> > when I do, I do usually leave the client running for a while
> > afterwards, a few hours or a day maybe, roughly 2 to 4 times
> > however long it took me to get my file, to sort of pay pack the 
> > system. I don't know how many other people think and act that way.
>
> Clearly, for those poor individuals who have an internet connection
> with a [small] quota of traffic, they aren't going to leave their
> client open for any longer than necessary, in order to preserve
> precious quota.  Some will even go out of their way to limit the rate
> at which they upload in order to further preserve the precious quota.

Ah yes, we're talking about Belgium, with the two oligopolists Belgacom
and Telenet. Together they have >90% of the market. I'm glad that I
switched to one of the smaller providers, who recently changed my
traffic quota from 60 GiB/month to unlimited (FUP). Until june last year
I had to survive with 10 GiB/month...

> (Not to mention to avoide exposure to the MPAA, RIAA, and their local
> equivalents, in the case of pirated stuff)

What is that, pirated stuff? Seriously, either you are a Linux user and
you don't download pirated stuff, or you are a Windoze luser. ;-)

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Amedee
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