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. ;-) -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org