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Telkom ADSL Usage/Abusage
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daysleeper
Senior Member
Strange?
Okay lets say I live in Cape Town and have a friend in Joburg, I take 2 300gb harddrives get on 1time and fly to joburg we sharefiles I come back to cape town and sharefiles with all my friends.
Instead of using 1time, I use a cable for TCP/IP traffic, which I pay for. The result is the same. Whether the data is copyrighted or not makes no difference.
My right to privacy stops people looking at the content of the drives and same principle applies on the internet.
So its very safe to say and assume that the copyright issue is not the problem. I doubt telkom even gives a **** about "sharing".
They just would prefer if you surf and mail with you DSL that is advertised as being broadband to make you get it in the first place.
Instead of you using there precious bandwidth, which you pay for anyway. This can now be used to make a 4512kbps pipe for a customer to pay-per-view through DSTV.
So telkom is making a statement by hard capping.
Instead of selling you an egg, they are selling you an empty shell at the same price. The yolk goes to somebody else who is willing to pay for premium content and is paying more than you. The yellow then goes to keep diginet stable.
Telkom maintain they sold you an egg!
Okay lets say I live in Cape Town and have a friend in Joburg, I take 2 300gb harddrives get on 1time and fly to joburg we sharefiles I come back to cape town and sharefiles with all my friends.
Instead of using 1time, I use a cable for TCP/IP traffic, which I pay for. The result is the same. Whether the data is copyrighted or not makes no difference.
My right to privacy stops people looking at the content of the drives and same principle applies on the internet.
So its very safe to say and assume that the copyright issue is not the problem. I doubt telkom even gives a **** about "sharing".
They just would prefer if you surf and mail with you DSL that is advertised as being broadband to make you get it in the first place.
Instead of you using there precious bandwidth, which you pay for anyway. This can now be used to make a 4512kbps pipe for a customer to pay-per-view through DSTV.
So telkom is making a statement by hard capping.
Instead of selling you an egg, they are selling you an empty shell at the same price. The yolk goes to somebody else who is willing to pay for premium content and is paying more than you. The yellow then goes to keep diginet stable.
Telkom maintain they sold you an egg!
schitz011
Expert Member
The current ad in Elle magazine, by Telkom advocates the downloading of movies in plain sight on the ad (make sense?)
The movie in question is The Matrix.
I might be wrong, but as far as I know (and my knowlage is kinda limited as I don't DL movies) you can't download movies on the net that arn't pirate copies?
i.e Is there a ligitimate site where you can purchase and DL movies all above board (and not dodgy Russian sites..)
The movie in question is The Matrix.
I might be wrong, but as far as I know (and my knowlage is kinda limited as I don't DL movies) you can't download movies on the net that arn't pirate copies?
i.e Is there a ligitimate site where you can purchase and DL movies all above board (and not dodgy Russian sites..)
To qualify:
My comment about file sharing was in the context of bandwidth usage (think millions of leechers coming to get the latest Backstreet Boys album off of your DSL-connected PC). Copyright / privacy issues are between the user, their conscience and the courts.
I have to agree that the "no servers allowed" is lame...we run a small office here and 4 of us share a 512K DSL connection. All the users connect to our local SMTP server to send mail, which then relays said mail through SAIX. Oh noes, I am violating the AUP!
My comment about file sharing was in the context of bandwidth usage (think millions of leechers coming to get the latest Backstreet Boys album off of your DSL-connected PC). Copyright / privacy issues are between the user, their conscience and the courts.
I have to agree that the "no servers allowed" is lame...we run a small office here and 4 of us share a 512K DSL connection. All the users connect to our local SMTP server to send mail, which then relays said mail through SAIX. Oh noes, I am violating the AUP!
Kalvaer
Expert Member
учитесь читать русский язык. Вы могли бы узнать, что не все российские участки плохиschitz011 said:
But other than that.. there are some sites.. but its usually cheaper to buy the movie than for the price you are going to pay for bandwidth, and then the movie!
Kalvaer
Expert Member
.. .Hmmm what does playing a gamin on a local site like Saix help...OH wait.. that was before they decided to Cap Local right...
Moederloos said:
Sure there are...
What I find funny is that you can't download anything with much success via P2P because of shaping, but MY GOD the file piggies sure as hell can download from YOUR PC at a stupendous rate. I knocked out a 10GB cap by leaving KCEasy running one night.