Rogers already does this (cripples download and limits upload to ~80KBps). They've forced me to switch to Usenet as even popular Torrents slow to a crawl on their Ultimate plan (50 down/2 up).

There's also the possibility of a 'seed box,' a remote server that downloads your torrents, then you just directly download them to your local machine from the server. I've heard of them (mostly through reading articles/comments on TorrentFreak), but I've never been curious enough to investigate the economics of them.

Curious why you would move to Usenet unless you are using a free service? The remaining DDL services (such as DepositFiles and RapidShare) are cheaper and tend to have faster DL times. Something I'm missing?

I pay less than $7/month for my Usenet connection, which is relatively cheap if you use it frequently. The connection is over SSL so it's completely secure end-to-end. My average download speed is 9 MB/s (saturating my line) which means I can download a 720p HD movie in just under 13 minutes. There's also (like with torrents) the ability to set-up TV show RSS feeds, so my shows automatically download to a folder, ready to watch, as they're released. It comes down to ease of use.

Megaupload was taken down and people are leaving DDL serves in droves. Usenet is a relatively safe, very fast, and a service thats been around for years.

This from the PHP developer that tries to print an exit function.

<?php exit; ?>

For the time being, nothing. However, once TPB goes full magnet you'll just submit a link instead of a file. It should make the process easier.

This looks really handy. It's disappointing that there's only partial support for IE7.

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/qa.php - It seems to support IE7 fine unless they have another page detailing IE7 problems.

The court order was not misunderstood, it was executed exactly as written. The person(s) who made the final verdict are the ones that misunderstand the technology and that's not the ISPs fault.

The judge's directions were overly-specific but I think his intention was quite clear. If you're arrested and put in badly-designed handcuffs that you can open with no effort, I don't recommend taking them off, regardless.

Historical lesson: I had just joined Microsoft in 1996 when it interpreted a court order literally, using this same attitude, and released a version of Windows without any Internet Explorer DLLs, which was of course not functional. Despite this being exactly what he'd ordered, the judge interpreted this as the corporate equivalent of a toddler having a tantrum, and things went (way) downhill from there.

Or newsgroups... ;)

That's a shame, but at the same time you have to wonder who would store five years of photos using an online service and not have a single backup. Buy one or two cheap portable hard drives and do a monthly backup of all of your can't-live-without files to both drives every month. Store them in a safe place and don't use them for anything else. Problem averted.

Edit: Or shit, at least have a copy on your computer.

I would really love to try it all out if you have any invites left:

brownelltyler@gmail.com

Received one. Thank you!

This has nothing to do with outsourcing as outsourcing is usually done on a contract basis. This is a way to stop people from being employed by a company in a different state.

"Mr. Bobman offers a potential solution: Have the telecommuting employee resign, form a C or S corporation and invoice the ex-employer for work. But he warns that the former employer would have to pay the former employee more to cover new expenses and lost benefits. And, although it would be a challenge, states could still make a case for taxing the former employer."

It starts with full-time employees and ends with anyone you pay...

Similar to how sales tax started with the location of your company and is now the location of your servers ( in several states ).

I'm nitpicking, but I wouldn't say Apple "removes" the logos, just special orders the chips with their logo instead.