The line from Git page summed it up for me: "After talking with the frustrated 'non-technical' people who 'owned/managed' them". What are these non-technical people doing opening up public connections. So much liability; a knowledge of keeping one patrons safe is needed. Scary!!

^Agreed! There are so many legit reasons to utilize torrents, ugh! Being an admin of over a dozen public wifi locations, the largest having nearly 1000 clients a day, with 30 WAPs. I never block bitTorrent only traffic shape to extreme cases (eg some one DL at 100Mbps for over 15mins will be bumped to a 10Mbps speed), and each client is in a /30 subnet to protect users from self righteous people like this.

I have received some very nice e-mails from my representatives agreeing with my correspondence to support NN. Even more shocking, one made a complete turn around. I feel that our voices were heard a little! The best line was from Maria Cantwell stating "Without strong protections, broadband Internet providers will likely favor their own or affiliated content, service, and applications because they have the economic incentives and technical means to do so."

Since NYBV I have mistrusted any media that can be be shared like a floppy disk. I have one USB drive with a live version of SuSE for non networked devices. Other than that, boot from network, and using the network to move files has always been my favorite way. I wonder if this could affect eSATA devices??