Re:You're off by 50% (Score 0)

Eh? I have looked up "Matticus" and I found no reference to anyone in the position of "telling me what the hell I should do". Who on this earth decided to drop down and make you the arbiter of what consists fair use of the internet (a community resource, yes, but one that you feel that you personally have the right to rule over: "emails, mindless web surfing? OK OK very good....BITTORRENTING? YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT....I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OR BELIEVE, I AM MATTICUS, THE ONLY TRUE ARBITER OF RIGHT AND WRONG ON THE NET!!!!"). In other words, my mother tried to tell me what I should do, I defied her. My wife tried the same with the same result. If you're not caring for me or having sex with me, what on earth makes you think I'd (or anyone) would listen to you? BTW, why should heavy users have to pay for guaranteed-bandwith? Usually the point of downloading 24/7 is to not mind if the bandwidth drops here and there. And why don't light users deserve guaranteed bandwitdh? If the heavy users paid for that, then the light users would become 2nd class traffic merely because they don't use the internet that much. You claim the internet is a community but then you advocate that heavy users should pay for a better service, creating 2 distinct classes of users: the heavy users who get always fast connections and the light users who get what is left over (bandwith is limited and they didn't pay for the guarantee), meaning slow speed. An equivalent would be allowing wealthy users of public transport to pay more for a luxury seat, something we acknowledge in private transport (airplanes, ships) but in a community resource it is evil.