I've never had the choice of cox. No pun intended. I have always used either the local dsl, twc, or now, att fios. I've downloaded terabytes through twc with no worries, albeit with blocklists. Almost the moment I started using fios, att sent me a letter in regards to illegal download of some pos garbage movie. I turned on forced encryption through my client and haven't heard a word since. I stopped using blocklists altogether prior to that as a protest against the tyrrany.