Then, when they don't believe that all you had were copies of hello.jpg they'll compare the disk with the original, see all the unrelated blocks being written to, and know for sure that you have hidden data. Plus evidence that you've attempted to destroy evidence from their investigation.

On an unrelated note, I must remember to buy a replacement for my worn-out F5 key.

Clearly this whole "media" thing is clouding the issue, so let's come up with a different example: my bandwidth also gets throttled every time I download a 1.8GB ultra-high res image of an ocelot's vagina, which I do in my role as an ocelot gynaecologist. Or, you know, to fap over.

I'm glad we've finally found some common ground.

No. Superficially it might seem so, but in practice it sucks. Because the caps are applied on a daily basis, it's very easy to hit the cap due to one session of heavy downloading. As an example, I'm on the 10Mbit service - at the risk of losing my geek card, I just don't need a faster download than that and so object to paying for it. This means that in the evening I get a DL cap of 1.5GB, which is roughly the size of a 720p TV show rip. So if I want to download 2 episodes, or a full length film, or Linux ISOs + associated software, I will hit the cap. Even though my daily usage only ends up being a couple of hundred MB averaged over the month.

And to the commenter suggesting we should schedule torrents:

1. I don't leave my computer on when I'm not using it; it's a waste of electricity
2. If I wanted my Linux ISOs to arrive a day after I decided I want them, I'd order a CD online. And if your 50Mbit connection takes 24 hours to download 650MB, then it is in no meaningful way 50Mbit.