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[–] Medic8eme@piefed.ca 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I worked as a small town cable TV guy during the Limewire era. The volume of home visits I had to do to explain virus', download caps and overage charges was insane. We didn't charge most folks but some kids were racking up thousands of dollars in internet usage to download movies and music. Meanwhile I was using the head terminal to do just the same thing.