[ILUG] Eircom surrenders

[Justin Mason]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 14:22, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
> paul at clubi.ie wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, john Moylan wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure it's tempting for the ISP's to generalise that all heavy P2P
>>> users are doing something illegal. But I'm sure that there are lot's
>>> of heavy users downloading perfectly legal content.
>>
>> I do backups over DSL. SSH rather than P2P, but still a good few GB
>> transferred every month..
>>
>> regards,
>
> I'm sure a lot of us do the same. I have scripts constantly running which
> download websites and "scrape" data from them (public information not
> available via XML or some other sane format), and a lot of my daily work
> involves moving websites between servers.

Yep.  as well as doing networked backup, I also sync a small chunk of
my mp3 collection around using Dropbox.

--j.