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We have a transparent caching proxy to speed up HTTP video delivery. caching system. You mentioned that you watch thousands of videos on video sharing sites every day; we cache the most popular videos so that we can feed them to you faster.

Good so long as I can watch Like a boss for the 50th time today with no lag I'm good.

How about sharing homemade pictures

Protocols other than HTTP don't have a well-defined takedown statute. So to save our behinds from being sued by the sculptors' union when you share photos of copyrighted sculptures without permission, we throttle other protocols.

Homemade as in I took it with my own camera, or is a freinds picture, or I made it myself, I said nothing about copyrighted.

movies

Using major label background music and/or characters without permission.

Again I said homemade, as in I made it, I own it, I'm not talking about hollywood here...

music

Subconsciously lifted from a major label song. Just ask George Harrison's widow. (Or what technique would you recommend to determine whether or not a given series of notes is copyrighted to someone else before you publish it?)

Homemade you know what that means right?

free games

Video game consoles don't have free games. In fact, they use cryptographic mechanisms to lock out the use of copylefted software.

When was I talking about consoles? But since you want to, consoles do have demos which are free, but back to what I was talking about, are in fact games that are free not stolen, the idea does exist, now you've heard of it.

software

Which violates patents on algorithms.

Um there's free software around, trials, demos, donations, completely free, again nothing said about stolen.

not to mention playing games

Most games need latency guarantees more than bandwidth guarantees. Limiting bandwidth allows our routers to respond more quickly to your packets.

So what happens when I get sent so many packets that I either can't send and/or recieve them fast enough therefore causing me to lag, what then?

uploading other types of files not via http, how about ftp, ssh

If you are using for purposes other than home entertainment, try upgrading to our business-class service designed for teleworkers.

That is home entertainment, ftp so I can upload files to sites, ssh so I can login to other servers, like say for a website for both, just cause you do find that fun doesn't mean other people don't.

Some of the several games I play the maps can be 50 megs or bigger

Then download them the night before you play.

What the hell? Ok let me further explain, said servers also server the maps at random and can't always be downloaded independently, and if you idle on the server you get kicked/banned, how do you imagine I get them then, also in other said games, the games are at random times and can be any sort of map, what do I do then, these rules they are trying to enforce are completely arbitrary not to mention that their (or yours whatever the case may be) solutions to said problems are completely worthless.

several full games are easily greater than 2 gigs, most being around

How about sharing homemade pictures

Protocols other than HTTP don't have a well-defined takedown statute. So to save our behinds from being sued by the sculptors' union when you share photos of copyrighted sculptures without permission, we throttle other protocols.

movies

Using major label background music and/or characters without permission.

music

Subconsciously lifted from a major label song. Just ask George Harrison's widow. (Or what technique would you recommend to determine whether or not a given series of notes is copyrighted to someone else before you publish it?)

free games

Video game consoles don't have free games. In fact, they use cryptographic mechanisms to lock out the use of copylefted software.

software

Which violates patents on algorithms.

not to mention playing games

Most games need latency guarantees more than bandwidth guarantees. Limiting bandwidth allows our routers to respond more quickly to your packets.

uploading other types of files not via http, how about ftp, ssh

If you are using for purposes other than home entertainment, try upgrading to our business-class service designed for teleworkers.

Some of the several games I play the maps can be 50 megs or bigger

Then download them the night before you play.

several full games are easily greater than 2 gigs, most being around 4 gigs or so

Our service provides more than enough bandwidth to order the retail version and then activate it online once you have received it in the mail. If that's too slow, you can still download the game overnight.

Not any more: Artists Rights Society, Visual Artists Rights Act

Think of why most of the great artists in the past died poor.

Did they now? I'm not so sure. Some retire to country estates. Olana

Most had patrons: the royals, the aristocrats. the merchant prince, the church. Many had independent incomes, aristocrats themselves.

Some. like Shakespeare, were businesmen. They owned theatres and galleries, "museums" or schools.

In the past, most visual art (not commisioned for public display) simply disappeared from public view and into private collections. Wadsworth Atheneum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3

Mir%C3%B3 was a Spaniard & the Europeans have a very expansive view of what constitutes "moral rights" for an artist.

However, the Artists Rights Society is a U.S.A. organization & U.S. law doesn't really support the position they're taking.

If I was Google, I wouldn't f*ck with ARS though, according to the ARS website, ARS is "a member of CISAC (Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs), the Paris-based, umbrella organization which oversees the activities of international copyright collecting societies in all media ."

It doesn't really matter if Google was in the right or not. It's one thing to piss off a solitary U.S. organization, but it is another thing entirely to piss off every single artist's rights society in the world. Even if Google won, they would have lost.

I want high-resolution (as high as possible) image files of famous/classic paintings.

Try Artchive.

The paintings obviously aren't copyright controlled

You'd be surprised. Some paintings made in Europe in the 19th century are still copyrighted in Europe because not only does Europe have a copyright term of life plus 70 years, but some nations also tack on extra extensions for pre-WWI and pre-WWII works. So unless you block European IPs, you have to follow life-plus-85.