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Belgian ISP Claims One Customer Downloads 2.7TB

Posted by timothy on from the and-he-was-just-a-tiny-guy dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this envy-spawning excerpt: "While for most people the data limit is never reached, with media-rich websites becoming every more prevalent, and more media services going online (we're looking at you streaming video services), it won't be long before the average user is surpassing even the highest caps commonly imposed today. But how much data is it possible to download every month? And do the so-called data-hogs really burn through that much more data than everyone else? According to Belgian ISP Telenet, the answers are 'a lot' and 'yes, they can.'"

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  1. Windows Update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poor guy just left Windows Update set to automatic.

    1. Re:Windows Update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually I think he was trying to get a video driver that would work with Linux.

  2. WANTED! by neonux · · Score: 2, Funny

    We will pay up to $50,000 for any information leading to the identify and ultimately capture of the individuals present in the Ten Most Wanted list published by Belgian ISP Telenet.

    Warmest regards,

    Signed RIAA, MPAA and BSA.

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    1. Re:WANTED! by Anubis+IV · · Score: 2, Funny

      Luckily for you, screen names are given for four of them in the image in TFA. Where do I collect my $200,000?

    2. Re:WANTED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Where do I collect my $200,000?

      Dude, we said "up to."

  3. Re:math? by chichilalescu · · Score: 3, Funny

    are you seriously going to start the 2.6 = 2.7 debate when they're still fighting about Kb, KB and KiB?
    the numbers are more like guidelines...

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  4. Re:Who cares? by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    In theory, they'd be working on infrastructure to supplement the need, but in reality, well, buying hookers and yachts for lobbyists and politicians aren't cheap, you know.

    I don't know how much a hooker currently goes for, but surely it's cheaper than a server-grade router.
    So if they were smart they'd just buy each of those 25 top users a hooker. That'll keep those nerds occupied bragging about how they "made love" to a "woman" on forums, which uses a lot less bandwidth.
    It's much cheaper than upgrading hardware.

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