Cichlidiot wrote:

> 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.

OMG! that's just wrong. I'm assuming you don't have any alternatives right?
I'm stuck with cable and I've had it for about 2 months now, and I liked
when I had dsl better but I can't get that now. Its either cable or dial-up
for me.