[geeks] the end of the internet as we know it.

[Phil Stracchino]

Mark Benson wrote:
> I in turn was elaborating on said example to make my point. My basic  
> point being that's great, as long as 'The man on charge' deems what  
> you are doing to be lawful. The upshot being what *you* are using  
> bandwidth for may be lawful but the service may be disallowed via the  
> guilt-by-association mentality that has lead services like BitTorrent,  
> which I only use for aquiring legitimately free products such as music  
> by Nine Inch Nails and Linux distros, to be disallowed or throttled.  
> This is where the problem originally arose from and was justified with.

Another "legitimate" use:  Blizzard uses BitTorrent to push out WoW updates.

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