There's no way someone can use 44GB in a week on legal content. Not surprised they cut the account - 44GB a week is what I'd expect a business account to be using, not a domestic.
How is it any different to shoving in a Linux Live CD, running BartPE or running Windows setup, doing a repair install and sticking your own account on?
If you think BT will go out of business, you're sadly deluded. They could completely close as an ISP tomorrow and they'll still make £Billions out of internet connectivity because nearly every ISP in this country uses their network for transport.
It's about your ISP being told to kick you off the net after being caught using it for illegal activity 3 times. You know, just like most ISPs do in the UK already, with some kicking you the first time.
So they put in optics to increase throughput. So what? Someone still needs to pay for the servers, the routers, the switches, the electricity to run it all, the buildings the equipment is housed in. A router or switch can only transmit so much data per port, it's not infinite. A server can only serve so much data per second.
It's nothing to do with free speech at all and everything to do with a bunch of juvenile freeloaders wanting to continue their rampant criminality without recourse so don't go trying to dress it up like it is. The internet can be controlled extremely easily and if it can't, it shows just how little you know about the back end.
Oh do piss off. All of this is only being brought in because a minority of internet users are incapable of controlling themselves. Fuck em. When you've 10% of an ISP's users using 90% of the traffic, mostly for illegal purposes, then something needs to be done for the benefit of the 90% who are able to exercise restraint.
Send a clear message that this nonsense will not be tolerated... to help make an intelligent decision when voting in European elections, see:
Personally I'm more interested in voting for people who can keep me in a job, keep inflation low, keep me and my family safe and prospering in the future. Being able to download copyrighted stuff without paying is WAY down the list of things of importance, if it even makes the list at all.
If you're voting based purely on wanting to keep downloading pirated stuff then you are pissing your vote away and should have the right to vote in the future removed as you're not responsible enough to exercise it.
Uses less than XP if I turn Superfetch off. But then again, as Superfetch is so good that Linux has pilfered it, I'll leave it on. I've paid for 2GB RAM so might as well have some of it used to preload the apps I use the most to cut down on launch time.
Wow, Microsoft is really trying to run away from Vista as quickly as possible.
What the fuck you on about you dumbass? I take it you've not been in IT long otherwise you'd know that since the 1980's, Windows releases have been roughly every 3 years, that XP was an anomaly and Win7 is just returning to their normal release schedule.
By using the built in utilities? Type Backup in the search bar and it comes up with "Backup and Restore Center" where you can make a backup of individual files and folders or create a full HDD image. Again, in the search bar, typing backup also revelas Backup Status and Configuration where you can set up automatic backing up and the location you wish to back up.
People don't CHOOSE Windows, they choose to buy a new PC, and more often than not the ONLY option they have is Windows.
Perhaps you'd care to explain the epic fail of Linux on netbooks where they had 100% market penetration from the outset? I mean, come on FFS. Linux started out with 100% market share for what has to be the largest growing sector in computing. Yet here we are 18 months later and Linux netbooks are forming under 10% of sales according to NPD. That's how much of a FAIL Linux is in usability.
I've seen people come into work who have been suckered into buying these leviathan laptops with Vista, and they are constantly having problems, and regret the purchase.
I've seen people suckered into buying these netbooks with Linux on and they are constantly having problems and regret the purchase. Those who don't return them are getting XP put on them instead.
Oh, and don't forget to include the price of office, anti-virus and countless utils that are free under linux and come on the CD/Iso.
The ones that are piss poor (AV), not compatible with the business world (office) and stuff you're unlikely to ever use (countless shite) or are piss poor rip-offs of decent stuff or of a graphical quality that Windows had in the 1990's(games). Perhaps you'd like to tell me where all the drivers are for the countless stuff I have which doesn't work? Hell, I can't even upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 because they've fucked up support for Intel graphics.
I'm posting this from Ubuntu because Microsoft made it impossible for me to copy files around between USB keys, dvds and hard disks with anything like the speed of XP for reasons they've never explained.
Perhaps you should try installing Service Pack 1. This problem was fixed over a year ago. It's morons like you that allow Conficker et al to exist.
I say bring it all out in the open so it can be regulated and taxed. Money can still be made, if the service is good enough and the price is reasonable enough, people will pay, allofmp3.com demonstrated this, as do many private torrent sites. On top of this, people will always want real world stuff to go with their data (think how much money the Star Wars toys made). On top of that, advertising worked well for existing TV. Good money can be made if free downloading is brought out in the open.
I call bullshit on this one. Why? Amazon, iTunes, 7Digital offer DRM free tracks for a pittance - I bought a 60 track album for £7 last week, a per track cost of 12 pence. Spotify offers all you can eat for the price of listening to the odd commercial. Napster and others offer all you can eat for the price of a couple of beers a month. Yet despite these, we've not seen any dip in piracy.
The service IS good enough and people aren't paying because they know they can feed in the never emptying trough of piracy at no cost.
Daft as it sounds, it's not the pr0 pirates that are the problem. pr0 pirates, in their numbers, are very few and far between and it's actually the sheer number of tourists that are the problem. They are the ones who have absolutely no intention of buying anything ever. They are the ones that've resulted in the current situation of 10,000 sales of a song getting you a number 1 in the weekly charts compared to the 100,000's you needed 10 years ago when MP3 existed but p2p was in its infancy. It is the tourists who have elevated the level of theft to the point of unsustainability.
That you think TPB exists primarily to facilitate copyright violation is your interpretation of what TPB exists for.
Wrong. The fact that 99.999% of its results are for copyrighted material, the fact they refused to remove the links when told about them and the judgment handed out in a Swedish court on Friday proves that's what it exists for.
There's a world of difference between Google and TPB. The main one being that Google is in daily contact with the **AA, and pulls down links its notified of whereas TPB deliberately chose its name to identify what it was about and when notified by the **AA and copyright holders then proceeded to tell them to fuck off, posted up their letters and mocked them. All of which is not really a very clever idea when they can afford better lawyers than you and you're running a site skirting on the boundaries of illegality. Quite why they're surprised at both ending up in court and being found guilty is beyond me.
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That was just over a 1/4 of the 44GB....got something better?
There's no way someone can use 44GB in a week on legal content. Not surprised they cut the account - 44GB a week is what I'd expect a business account to be using, not a domestic.
How is it any different to shoving in a Linux Live CD, running BartPE or running Windows setup, doing a repair install and sticking your own account on?
What utter rubbish.
If you think BT will go out of business, you're sadly deluded. They could completely close as an ISP tomorrow and they'll still make £Billions out of internet connectivity because nearly every ISP in this country uses their network for transport.
If you're paying £15 a month for 1GB usage allowance, you're paying double what you need to.
It's about your ISP being told to kick you off the net after being caught using it for illegal activity 3 times. You know, just like most ISPs do in the UK already, with some kicking you the first time.
So they put in optics to increase throughput. So what? Someone still needs to pay for the servers, the routers, the switches, the electricity to run it all, the buildings the equipment is housed in. A router or switch can only transmit so much data per port, it's not infinite. A server can only serve so much data per second.
It's nothing to do with free speech at all and everything to do with a bunch of juvenile freeloaders wanting to continue their rampant criminality without recourse so don't go trying to dress it up like it is. The internet can be controlled extremely easily and if it can't, it shows just how little you know about the back end.
Oh do piss off. All of this is only being brought in because a minority of internet users are incapable of controlling themselves. Fuck em. When you've 10% of an ISP's users using 90% of the traffic, mostly for illegal purposes, then something needs to be done for the benefit of the 90% who are able to exercise restraint.
Send a clear message that this nonsense will not be tolerated... to help make an intelligent decision when voting in European elections, see:
Personally I'm more interested in voting for people who can keep me in a job, keep inflation low, keep me and my family safe and prospering in the future. Being able to download copyrighted stuff without paying is WAY down the list of things of importance, if it even makes the list at all.
If you're voting based purely on wanting to keep downloading pirated stuff then you are pissing your vote away and should have the right to vote in the future removed as you're not responsible enough to exercise it.
[citation needed], troll.
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15061#post59645
http://tinyurl.com/cboaqa
Uses less than XP if I turn Superfetch off. But then again, as Superfetch is so good that Linux has pilfered it, I'll leave it on. I've paid for 2GB RAM so might as well have some of it used to preload the apps I use the most to cut down on launch time.
Wow, Microsoft is really trying to run away from Vista as quickly as possible.
What the fuck you on about you dumbass? I take it you've not been in IT long otherwise you'd know that since the 1980's, Windows releases have been roughly every 3 years, that XP was an anomaly and Win7 is just returning to their normal release schedule.
For backups, I am currently using Acronis TrueImage. Based on a test "full image restore", it works.
What the fuck for when Windows Vista and 7 have built in utilities that do everything that Acronis does?
By using the built in utilities? Type Backup in the search bar and it comes up with "Backup and Restore Center" where you can make a backup of individual files and folders or create a full HDD image. Again, in the search bar, typing backup also revelas Backup Status and Configuration where you can set up automatic backing up and the location you wish to back up.
People don't CHOOSE Windows, they choose to buy a new PC, and more often than not the ONLY option they have is Windows.
Perhaps you'd care to explain the epic fail of Linux on netbooks where they had 100% market penetration from the outset? I mean, come on FFS. Linux started out with 100% market share for what has to be the largest growing sector in computing. Yet here we are 18 months later and Linux netbooks are forming under 10% of sales according to NPD. That's how much of a FAIL Linux is in usability.
I've seen people come into work who have been suckered into buying these leviathan laptops with Vista, and they are constantly having problems, and regret the purchase.
I've seen people suckered into buying these netbooks with Linux on and they are constantly having problems and regret the purchase. Those who don't return them are getting XP put on them instead.
There speaks someone who has never used it or is too stupid to figure out what has changed.
Ubuntu 8.10 = $0
Ubuntu 9.04 = $0
Only if your time is free.
Oh, and don't forget to include the price of office, anti-virus and countless utils that are free under linux and come on the CD/Iso.
The ones that are piss poor (AV), not compatible with the business world (office) and stuff you're unlikely to ever use (countless shite) or are piss poor rip-offs of decent stuff or of a graphical quality that Windows had in the 1990's(games). Perhaps you'd like to tell me where all the drivers are for the countless stuff I have which doesn't work? Hell, I can't even upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 because they've fucked up support for Intel graphics.
I'm posting this from Ubuntu because Microsoft made it impossible for me to copy files around between USB keys, dvds and hard disks with anything like the speed of XP for reasons they've never explained.
Perhaps you should try installing Service Pack 1. This problem was fixed over a year ago. It's morons like you that allow Conficker et al to exist.
I say bring it all out in the open so it can be regulated and taxed. Money can still be made, if the service is good enough and the price is reasonable enough, people will pay, allofmp3.com demonstrated this, as do many private torrent sites. On top of this, people will always want real world stuff to go with their data (think how much money the Star Wars toys made). On top of that, advertising worked well for existing TV. Good money can be made if free downloading is brought out in the open.
I call bullshit on this one. Why? Amazon, iTunes, 7Digital offer DRM free tracks for a pittance - I bought a 60 track album for £7 last week, a per track cost of 12 pence. Spotify offers all you can eat for the price of listening to the odd commercial. Napster and others offer all you can eat for the price of a couple of beers a month. Yet despite these, we've not seen any dip in piracy.
The service IS good enough and people aren't paying because they know they can feed in the never emptying trough of piracy at no cost.
Daft as it sounds, it's not the pr0 pirates that are the problem. pr0 pirates, in their numbers, are very few and far between and it's actually the sheer number of tourists that are the problem. They are the ones who have absolutely no intention of buying anything ever. They are the ones that've resulted in the current situation of 10,000 sales of a song getting you a number 1 in the weekly charts compared to the 100,000's you needed 10 years ago when MP3 existed but p2p was in its infancy. It is the tourists who have elevated the level of theft to the point of unsustainability.
That you think TPB exists primarily to facilitate copyright violation is your interpretation of what TPB exists for.
Wrong. The fact that 99.999% of its results are for copyrighted material, the fact they refused to remove the links when told about them and the judgment handed out in a Swedish court on Friday proves that's what it exists for.
There's a world of difference between Google and TPB. The main one being that Google is in daily contact with the **AA, and pulls down links its notified of whereas TPB deliberately chose its name to identify what it was about and when notified by the **AA and copyright holders then proceeded to tell them to fuck off, posted up their letters and mocked them. All of which is not really a very clever idea when they can afford better lawyers than you and you're running a site skirting on the boundaries of illegality. Quite why they're surprised at both ending up in court and being found guilty is beyond me.