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Old 11-10-2004, 19:53   #5
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Re: NTL's opinion on Filesharing

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Originally Posted by dfarry
This may be a stupid question, but with increasingly fast broadband connections and the increase of P2P methods, I just wondered what NTL's opinion on this might be...

Especially as much of what is shared will be breaching copyright.

I have always downloading the odd MP3 or app using the likes of Kazaa and now I have a 1mb+ connection BitTorrent, Emule and other apps are proving very tempting.
Well, just remember that the ntl terms & conditions prohibit using the service to breach copyright:

http://www.home.ntl.com/page/userpolicy

Plus there's always the chance that, if you share a lot of copyrighted material, the owner of the copyright may well find out & report you to ntl....or worse.

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Originally Posted by dfarry
But I don't want to be kicked off NTL for downloading loads and loads of "stuff". Is there an acceptable limit or quota that NTL tend to stick to....lets say 100mb download each day....it wouldn't take much to get to do that I think but would this likely be a problem?

Thanks

As other people have said, there is a 1GB per day "limit" (not a cap).

If you download more than 1GB per day, for 3 or more days in any consecutive 14 day period, ntl may contact you & ask you to cut down on your usage.

More on it is available in the user policy linked above, plus there's info here: http://www.ntlworld.com/service_update.html

There are also *many* "cap" threads here at CF, if you do a search.

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Originally Posted by badnbusy
Its more of a "guideline"
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