Do I need to understand MWEB's Accepptable Use Policy?

sillybillieswithwillies said:
It seems to me it's just a really tl;dr legal disclaimer to protect mweb from legal action

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Yes it is, it's to give Mweb some cover from the people who B&M about their torrentz taking a long time to download.

It would be cool to see a summarised version but as with most documents like this the vagueness works to both parties benefit.
 
Can one really understand any ISP's AUP? IMHO they're all a load of legalese that boils down to them saying that they reserve the right to do whatever they want.
 
sillybillieswithwillies said:
Will mweb send me to jail if they catch me torrenting?
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Nothing wrong with torrenting. It's what you torrent (firstly).
What they do however add in their AUP is that you may not use their uncapped service for [large] automated downloads (and/or being while away from your computer). This however is problematic because if I were to update my Windows or Linux OS, I would be away from my computer, but it is a necessary download.

But in short, chances of them doing anything is zero, unless you make a habit of abusing the uncapped service. Abuse in this case would be to maximise the amount of data transferred on your account/line in such a way that it stands out repeatedly in their usage logs for clients.
 
Anyone know approximately how much data they regard as "Accepptable"
 
DM_ said:
Anyone know approximately how much data they regard as "Accepptable"
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To the best of my knowledge they did actually specify it at some point.
Not sure as to 384/512/1Mb but iirc 4Mb was 250GB average over a period of three months.
 
A lawyer friend told me that;

"In SA, there is a perception that in most legal cases where internet is related (ISP's) the law will swing their way"
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You can still make their name GAT (if you do it properly in many ways)! :D
 
For years I had a Rapidshare account because at that time that's where most of the pirated stuff were even with their stupid 5 Gigs a day crap. Funny how when you on top you forget about all the little people that got you there and begin to **** on them. I eventually stopped using Rapidshare because of all their policy changes they tried to force upon me that benefited them. Now this week I receive an email from them about how they have started to LISTEN to their customers and have again changed policies to reflect this. I'm never going back to Rapidshare, you know the whole FOOL ME ONCE... story.

This has made me think about what MWEB has been up to and how similar their growth and throwing their customers under the bus mimics Rapidshare. IF WE DETERMINE THAT YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED MORE THAN WHAT OUR AUP AGREEMENT SPECIFIES (NO NUMERICAL VALUE) WE WILL CANCEL YOUR ACCOUNT AND BAN YOU FROM EVER HAVING A MWEB INTERNET ACCOUNT AGAIN. This kind of attitude just brings about their own demise sooner rather than later. HOORAY to MWEB. I'll still be around long after you not.
 
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