Are they going to start listing the reasons why I no longer use Windows? :)

Maybe it's divide and conquer.

They are trying to turn paying gamers against "pirate" gamers by basically saying "This is costing you more money and causing you inconvenience because of pirates. Go get them!".

If making a game is always resulting in a loss, it wouldn't make any sense ( business or otherwise ) to continue making games.

Therefore, I can only conclude that making a game is *still* profitable ( despite everything ) and would just like to say:

Be happy you are making profit and stop whining about how much.

That goes for **AA too!

Doesn't choosing 'just one' of anything increase vulnerability due to lack of diversity?

Just to clarify, if the Apple advert says "Fast browsing" then you will most likely focus on the time it takes to browse in the advert, so it isn't immediately obvious that that might not be "true".

On the other hand, it's pretty easy to guess that you couldn't fix a light in another building from your phone. And that a Citroen C4 doesn't transform into a dancing robot

I've not noticed this and the test results say otherwise ( 11ms -> 13ms ).
Unless, of course, they aren't stalling ping packets but are stalling everything else which would co-incide with what you are saying.

Hmmm.. thanks for the info!

We get 2.4GB of download before being throttled at *any* time ( as the Virgin Media Traffic Management page says ).
It just happens that during the evening, that limit is halved to 1.2GB. So downloading in the early morning or at night doesn't make any difference, we'll still get throttled.

We're on cable.

My ping is fine until both these two conditions are met:
Inside throttling period
P2P software running