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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
What's wrong with it?
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I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the world is moving to downloading digital content over the last few years. I have a box plugged into my TV that gives me iPlayer. (The BBC's VOD service). That allows me to stream BBC content to my TV directly. A 30 minute 'HD' programme is about 1.5 gig. I pretty much only use it of an evening, and don't watch what is being broadcast. I can easily, legally, do 10 gig a night. Then there is lovefilm in the UK or netflix in the states. They stream too. A movie would be about 3 or 4 gig. Oh and I get my other TV series from iTunes.
The world is moving to this model very quickly, so if the ISPs stifled this growth by metering the internet it would be bad.
HTH
Damian