[MUD-Dev] Making the Customer Pay for Patch Bandwidth

Balthazaar balthazaar at comcast.net
Thu Jan 6 23:44:44 CET 2005


Byron Ellacott wrote:

> The problem is twofold.  First, it's highly unethical, if not
> outright theft, that Blizzard uses end user bandwidth to run their
> business.  The ToS does not include anything about this; it is
> never explicitly agreed to.  This alone should be reason enough to
> be up in arms over the downloader.

Another problem is the fact that some broadband ISPs see the upload
traffic when using BitTorrent as being no different than running a
server, and thus in violation of some TOSs.

Matt
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