>> I don't mind so much that I won't always get 8 Mbit/sec at home. 
>> Sometimes the network is busy. What I object to is the ISP 
>> deliberately blocking certain types of traffic because they don't want 
>> me to use it.
> 
> Well that's just because they'd rather give the bandwidth to 100 people 
> surfing the bbc site than 1 person downloading illegal stuff from 
> bittorrent. (not saying that what you are doing is illegal, but i 
> suspect the majority of bittorrent traffic is illegal)

That's just it, isn't it? Because a technology *can* be used for 
something illegal, why not punnish *everybody* who uses that technology?

By a similar argument, the CD recorder I bought will only record on 
specially-marked CDs. These CDs cost 10x as much as normal ones "to 
subsidise the music industry against piracy". In other words, if you're 
buying blank CDs and putting them in a music CD recorder, it *must* be 
because you're trying to illegally copy music. Not because, say, you 
happen to be a musician and you want to record your performances. :-P

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