On an unrelated note, I must remember to buy a replacement for my worn-out F5 key.
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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:
It's nice to hear an expert's opinion, but honestly I think I could have called a higher hit rate, and not only am I not a lawyer but I don't even live in the US. NYCL is the legal equivalent of the Linux zealot who is genuinely shocked each time a new release of Linux From Scratch fails to topple Windows from the OS throne.
Though I will agree that cymbals are usually the biggest giveaway for music recorded at too low a bitrate (or more commonly, just badly encoded).
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
