[BBLISA] nnrp clarification on limitations

[Sean Lutner]

Actually all I was trying to convey was that easynews has a 10GB per 
month cap. However, in reality it is a 10GB per billing cycle cap. If 
you download all 10G in a week, they will simply bill you again, and 
you can start downloading. So in theory, in a 30 day month, you could 
download 300G.

I don't think either limit is reasonable or unreasonable. When I made 
the illegal crack it was meant as a joke, I guess the ":)" went right 
over everyone's head and brought out my detractors to take shots at me. 
Just to have it on the record, I could care less what your downloading 
with an NNTP account or any account in general, but NNTP has remained a 
place the "tech savvy" could obtain lots of illegal binary files with a 
reasonable assumption of trouble not finding them.

Cheers.


On Feb 13, 2005, at 5:37 AM, Dean Anderson wrote:

> They aren't illegal. Sean indicated the nonsense of his answer when he
> noted that easynews just moved to 10G/mo.  Obviously, there are others
> that see 10G as reasonable, and 2G as unreasonable.  Funny that people
> can't see their own illogic.
>
> A cap like that just means that anyone downloading up to the 10G (or
> whatever) doesn't need to make special arrangements.  The cap is set 
> high
> enough so that they can satisfy users, still make money on average, and
> not have too many special arrangments. Special arrangments cost money,
> too, Sometimes its just better to raise the limit than try to 
> administer
> more special cases.
>
> 		--Dean
>
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>
>>> I've not heard or seen any NNTP services that have no downloaded 
>>> bytes
>>> cap. It would be used/abused that it would be cost effective for
>>> whomever was providing it. I've used easynews 
>>> (http://www.easynews.com)
>>> for a couple years, and they just moved to a 10G/month quota.
>>>
>>> Comcast's cap is 2GB/month, what could you possibly be downloading 
>>> that
>>> you need more? It wouldn't be anything illegal would it? :)
>>>
>>> Sean
>>
>> Nothing illegal to my knowledge.   There are avi files from an 
>> overseas tv
>> show posted to a newsgroup that gives me a chance to watch said shows.
>>
>> I could certainly do more research and see if such postings are 
>> considered
>> illegal, in which case I would end my nnrp search.
>>
>> Scott
>>
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