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Heya Yavuz,

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 12:39:37 PM, you wrote:
y> Check this out;

y> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/25/download.suits.ap/index.html

"The Recording Industry Association of America ... said it will begin
Thursday to search Internet file-sharing networks to identify users
who offer 'substantial' collections of mp3 music files for
downloading."

Not quite as bad as the subject line makes it seem..

On the other hand Internet Service Provider (in the USA at least)
have definitely noticed the increased bandwidth people have been
using and have been decreasing how much bandwith people are
allowed to use to save money.

When I worked for a dial-up ISP from 1997-2001 things were based
on a 10:1 ratio, 10 customers for 1 phone line, and in reality
about 10% of the bandwidth that everyone could draw if everyone
was downloading/uploading all at once.

Now that more and more people are staying online all the
time, and there are so many broadband users who are starting to
actually use their fast connections, the 10:1 ratio no longer
applies and the ISPs seemed to be forced to cap bandwidth more
and more - it would kill their profits if they had to buy enough
bandwidth to let everyone actually use their internet connections
at even half speed 24/7.

3 years ago the local cable company where I live didn't have any
upload limits, just a rough 1.5 Mb/s overall bandwidth cap (about
190KB/s). 2 years ago they switched to 60 KB/s upload speeds and
you could only upload/download 1 gig per day (which made it kind
of hard to download the 5 cds of RedHat 8.0 without waiting
forever; it was possible to go over the daily limit in 1 hour,
argh)... And today I notice they just switched it to 30 KB/s
upload speeds. I wonder if RIAA had anything to do with that?

Best regards,
 Jeremy        mailto:sadus@...