Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore
If you can't download via p2p, just how many people will bother with big connections like 10mb?
Believe it or not but there are legal ways to use a 10mb connection and that doesn't have a lot to do with flatrates anyway. In fact, there are ISPs who cut your connection if you keep constantly downloading und using your full bandwidth because if everyone does it, the whole internet in the region will slow down, there's only so much bandwidth between backbones as well and expanding them costs an ISP money that they will hardly get back from their customers who pay exactly the same whether they download a lot or nothing which is why I mentioned flatrates.
Maybe it isn't the case anymore but I heard of cases where the ISP cancelled a flatrate contract because the people where downloading day and night without a break, there also seem to be a few ISPs which cancel your connection every 24 hours.