I like how you generalize everyone into one big worthless pile. That makes no sense. I'm sure you pay for EVERY program you use, right? Or send each artist the 3$ for the mp3 that you download that they wrote, and is actually contained on a CD on a shelf at Best Buy. Hello Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.

What about the techs that help a new customer, perhaps friend of theirs, bypass the cap as well, or tweak their config just a little, while disabling the detection so that their friend is squeezing more bandwidth than he's paying for. Still a thief, but that makes it ok because an employee of the company he's stealing from did it for him, right? No.

DerEngel is not a loser, not "looser"... Simply because he is coding software of this kind. Maybe if the ISP had some failsafes, or ran their systems similar to DSL and controlled the speed on THEIR side, this wouldn't be an issue AT ALL. There are ways to prevent this from happening, regardless... How about the new MD5 encryption? There's

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