Miguel De Anda <miguel@thedeanda.com> wrote:
> You could do the bit torrent and and just leave your computer on until the
> weekend... you should have them by then and you would also be lending us
> your spare bandwidth, everybody wins!

Actually, I couldn't. The tech support people at my ISP are just
knowledgable enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be considered good.
The service contract explicitly states that service will be terminated if
they detect viruses or illegal filesharing from your machine. They do have
enough knowledge to put up some monitoring tools to watch for such.
Unfortunately, they don't really distinguish legit filesharing from
illegit, they just pull the line. I really don't have the time to a) have
my line disconnected and b) be explaining to them why the traffic was
legit. The later is a particularly distasteful prospect because I'm pretty
sure they won't understand the concept of legitimate filesharing to
distribute free software (they've been pretty dim whenever I've mentioned
I'm running Linux when there's a network issue). I suppose I should
"thank" RIIA and MPA for this, as this clause was new to the contracts
when renewal came up last fall.