From the point of view of the US or Europe, maybe. Look at the waters around Africa, there's a whole lotta difference, especially in the next couple of years.

Modern TCPs use BIC or CUBIC, which produce much better utilization than a 'sawtooth'-type algorithm. See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.66.4563&rep=rep1&type=pdf for details, in particular the graph at the top of page 2.

It's actually even worse than this. Using your example, your TCP stack ramps up to 25mbps, overflows the buffer, and loses a lot of packets at once, rather than just one or a few packets that would be lost with a sane buffer. Lots of lost packets at once leads to a RTO timeout rather than a Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery, and essentially you're starting over from zero instead of reducing your speed a little and continuing.

I've seen this a couple of times in this thread. I have IE6 and FF3 on this desktop, and neither of them has a BT cert in their list of roots. Proof please?

I can certainly bring proceedings, but I will probably lose, seeing as the EULA I agreed to when I installed your game specifically indemnifies you from damages, and doesn't 'warrant merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose'.

Pilots don't use speed anymore, they use modafinil (brand name Provigil). Keeps you awake but doesn't make you wig out like Dexedrine does, which is widely regarded as a bad thing when the subject is in charge of a few tons of ordnance.

SSL isn't going to help you. The monitoring software used by the *AA's minions (MediaSentry et al) connects to the p2p networks themselves, and obtains lists of peers - and they can connect to SSL-enabled peers just as well as plaintext ones. They're not sniffing the wires.

And with the Wii too. In the current games chart, there are 18 games that have sold over 1m copies. Of these 18, three are not for Nintendo systems, and only one of the remaining 14 is not made by Nintendo themselves. They are killing out there.