[ILUG] Eircom surrenders

[Michael Watterson]

Justin Mason wrote:
> 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.
>   
However none of these examples are affected by eircoms deal.

-- 
Mike