I don't think either limit is reasonable or unreasonable. When I made the illegal crack it was meant as a joke, I guess the ":)" went right over everyone's head and brought out my detractors to take shots at me. Just to have it on the record, I could care less what your downloading with an NNTP account or any account in general, but NNTP has remained a place the "tech savvy" could obtain lots of illegal binary files with a reasonable assumption of trouble not finding them.
Cheers.
On Feb 13, 2005, at 5:37 AM, Dean Anderson wrote:
They aren't illegal. Sean indicated the nonsense of his answer when he noted that easynews just moved to 10G/mo. Obviously, there are others that see 10G as reasonable, and 2G as unreasonable. Funny that people can't see their own illogic.
A cap like that just means that anyone downloading up to the 10G (or
whatever) doesn't need to make special arrangements. The cap is set high
enough so that they can satisfy users, still make money on average, and
not have too many special arrangments. Special arrangments cost money,
too, Sometimes its just better to raise the limit than try to administer
more special cases.
--Dean
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I've not heard or seen any NNTP services that have no downloaded bytes
cap. It would be used/abused that it would be cost effective for
whomever was providing it. I've used easynews (http://www.easynews.com)
for a couple years, and they just moved to a 10G/month quota.
Comcast's cap is 2GB/month, what could you possibly be downloading that
you need more? It wouldn't be anything illegal would it? :)
Sean
Nothing illegal to my knowledge. There are avi files from an overseas tv
show posted to a newsgroup that gives me a chance to watch said shows.
I could certainly do more research and see if such postings are considered
illegal, in which case I would end my nnrp search.
Scott
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