said by avd706 :

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ok I have a topic for discussion,

in the technical and legal terms,

how is using a client software that uploads considered a "server"?

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said by BigRay5264 :

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Hey...new here,so forgive my ignorance...so from what I'm hearing...P2P is abusing the TOS?

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said by GeekNJ :

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said by avd706 :

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ok I have a topic for discussion,

in the technical and legal terms,

how is using a client software that uploads considered a "server"?

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A server is program/server where other machines connect to and make requests.

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said by Cable Datacom news:

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Among the handful of biggest MSOs, only Time Warner stands out in its near-term resistance to the idea of service tiers and bandwidth consumption charges. "It's not an active topic right now," said a Time Warner spokesperson, arguing that consumption billing particularly doesn't make any business sense to the company. "[The problem is] very sporadic and erratic. It's not common."

But even Time Warner acknowledges that heavy bandwidth use by a low number of subscribers can be a real hassle. Several months ago in Texas, the spokesperson said, the company "had to throttle down" bandwidth for several very active nodes because of traffic backups those users were creating for the entire broadband network. "We'll limit the ability of anybody doing massive uploads,"

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said by CED Mag:

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Currently, most broadband customers access the Internet over "untiered" systems, with no limits on data transfers. Even on these systems, the uber users are the exception, not the rule. Nine out of 10 people who subscribe to broadband Internet services consume less than 20 GB per month, which works out to just over half of the total amount of bandwidth used in an average month. A little over half of the subscribers to cable modem service download less than 2 GB per month, or about 5 percent of total monthly consumption.

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said by Business Week:

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RUNNING FOR COVER. The cable companies' adoption of new pricing strategies has less to do with stopping piracy than with economics and business models. At an average monthly cost of $45, broadband is still perceived as too expensive by many consumers, and in recent months, prices have been rising, rather than dropping. That's slowing subscriber growth. According to market-research firm ARS, the rate of new signups for broadband in the first quarter of 2002 slid to 12%, the worst quarter on record.

Disappointing demand has left cable operators scrambling to cover the $60 billion they spent building and upgrading their networks over the past decade. At the same time, they've tired of seeing a small group of heavy users tax their networks while paying the same flat rate as everybody else. AT&T Broadband says on its system, 1% percent of users account for 16% of bandwidth consumption.

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said by Yankee Group:

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The single service model allowed “bandwidth hogs” to exploit network capacity with no additional cost. For example, Time Warner Cable recognized that 5 percent of its customers were using 95 percent of its network capacity.

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