Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Wed Oct 10 21:18:38 UTC 2007

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote:

> One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the steadily
> increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of
> small, portable processors for every application, meaning that there's
> been an explosion of computing devices.

The one thing that scares me the most is that I have discovered people 
around me that use their bittorrent clients with rss feeds from bittorrent 
sites to download "everything" (basically, or at least a category) and 
then just delete what they don't want. Because they're paying for flat 
rate there is little incentive in trying to save on bandwidth.

If this spreads, be afraid, be very afraid. I can't think of anything more 
bandwidth intensive than video, no software updates downloads in the world 
can compete with people automatically downloading DVDRs or xvids of tv 
shows and movies, and then throwing it away because they were too lazy to 
set up proper filtering in the first place.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se