Thread: General Traffic Management Changes - April 2nd
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Old 02-04-2012, 15:35   #109
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Re: Traffic Management Changes - April 2nd
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Originally Posted by buckleb View Post
The elephant in the room here is that these measure, whatever one thinks of them, would not be required if people stopped regarding copyright-theft as a basic human right.

These latest restrictions by Virginmedia are actually quite reasonable in my opinion, and won't really handicap anyone engaged in normal internet activity.
Quite right, but they can still download their "of dubious legality" content, just not always at full speed; and still a lot faster than most people with ADSL

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Originally Posted by Jumping View Post
Yeah cause there really isnt any legal way to download a lot of data...Patch World of Warcraft or use the download to play, buy some games from Steam, download Windows 8 beta etc there are plenty of legal ways to use a lot of data and its certainly normal internet activity.
Yes, but how often do you have to do any of those? Do you find yourself downloading a new muti-GB release of Windows 8 beta, or patching WOW every day?

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Originally Posted by Rexz View Post
Normal internet activity? So now it is classed as abnormal use if we dare use the speed we are given?
Don't think anyone's ever said that.
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