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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Personally, I'm pretty sure the number of pirates is way bigger than you might assume.
I don't know about the US.
But in Europe, there are intense discussions about ISPs capping the download capacities.
Depending on the ISP and the country in question, they typically drastically reduce your download speed after reaching a certain daily limit.
But here it comes: The limits in question are in the tens of GB. Per day! The limit I have in my business contract is 100GB per day, for example.
I don't need that, not even close. But I automatically got it, linked to my speed of 100Mb.
Question to me would be, why so many people exceed their limits. Obviously enough, so the ISPs have to react.
Yes, my neighbor as a highly sought after web developer will need this kind of capacity from time to time. But the general public?
Such capacities largely only make sense for pirates.
Downloading BlueRays of 30GB and the likes.
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The main problem with capping usage nowadays is the amount of legal content you can download. Downloading HD content to my Sky box is a couple of gig per hours viewing, add in streaming, gaming, OS/software updates etc and a family could hit 10's of gig fairly quickly, in fact with the amount of online stuff nowadays your average family can probably download as much or more than your average pirate.