maartena
Super Grover
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to knightmb
Re: Stupid on the outside
I think about 80% of Broadband users are actually people that browse the web, check their e-mail, use AOL messenger to chat with friends, play games online, and do whatever else an average family with 2 or 3 computers in the house does on the internet.
Only a small percentage actually uses usenet, and I don't know about the popularity of bittorrent, but the average user often doesn't even know how to burn a cd, let alone how to burn a movie to a on-tv-playable format or know how to unrar and crack software and games. 
Most users will indeed continue to pay their monthly bill because they have no idea this has been happening. Indeed, all they want to do is make more money. And with no DSL alternative most people will just grunt a little and fork over the next bill.....
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