Has anyone been kicked off their ISP?

[bmgb]

Has onyone here actually been kicked off their ISP for file sharing? Or suffered any other repercussions firsthand? A friend of mine has had her high speed service suspended for now, due to sharing Adobe Illustrator (she got a letter specifying the filename). They will probably get her to sign an agreement before restoring her service.

I was wondering: If this happens, why not just switch providers? Especially if you live in a metro area where a ton of high speed ISPs are available?

[Malicious Intent]

What ISP was she with and what network was she sharing on?
Probably easy as pie to just change ISP. I doubt that have any sort of black book. Not one which has any attention paid to it - customers are worth too much. The only problem is if there is a set-up fee.

[stts]

I had TWC Road Runner and DLed 15gigs of "Large files" a day till they threatened to increase my rate to 89.95 and charge me for overage over 40gigs per month. I canceled my service and now have Road Runner cable thru Earthlink DLing 10gigs a day with no complaints yet. :fire I wonder if my speed will go to 3meg bit download like I have been hearing from others. That would be cool.

[SUprEMeBeiNg]

rofl my friend did

he's the biggest bittorrent nub

he had a local isp (harbornet) and was dling at least 100 gigs


:O not too sharp

[bmgb]

Originally posted by Malicious Intent
What ISP was she with and what network was she sharing on?


Comcast.

Kazaa (of course).

[bmgb]

Originally posted by stts
I had TWC Road Runner and DLed 15gigs of "Large files"

Wow. I have TWC Roadrunner as well. I don't think I've ever d/led at that rate though. :angel

Mainly, I'm worried about a watchdog catching me and reporting me to my ISP... of course as has been said here, it's not too hard to just switch providers. Everybody I know is telling me to be very careful or to just stop sharing.

Of course I haven't been using Kazaa much lately anyway. Not due to fear, just too busy doing other things with my computer.

[Malicious Intent]

Originally posted by bmgb
Comcast.

Kazaa (of course).

You may say of course about kazaa, but I didn't realise that software companies worried much about kazaa yet.
I was reading an academic paper saying that software companies were gaining from pirates, as the ones with the weakest copy protection were the ones becoming industry standard. It used Ahead Nero as an example. Sadly it was a while ago that I read it, so I don't have a reference.

[Julian]

I got a warning back when directvdsl was around.