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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
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.
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Apple some time ago was heavily criticized.
Their movies not being "real" HD.
A "real" HD movie in the eyes of experts wouldn't have 5GB but manifold of that.
But most legal providers do like Apple, to still being able to process the traffic.
Pirates, on the other hand, give you entire BlueRays as 1:1 Rip, easily exceeding 25GB.
Even a big family with 8 people and all of them active users of the web, will have difficulties to reach a 100GB limit.
Yes, one might download 20 movies to a Sky box and exceed the limit. But every single day?
I can't find scenarios even for big families, constantly exceeding 100GB. And that's exactly the way, ISPs argue: Yes, there's a cap (which wasn't originally in the contract which causes the legal problems), but "normal users" barely ever will reach it. And then, like my neighbor, you even can negotiate package deals. For my neighbor, for example it's not "100GB per day" but "1TB per week" now - without any changes in his pricing structure.