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Old 06-09-2010, 07:33 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth View Post
I'm guessing whoever the internet service is registered to would get a notice in the mail. Would be very tricky to litigate something like that. If something like that came up, I bet they would just skip over that IP address once they found out the owner. Although I bet it almost never happens. Who is going to sit in a starbucks long enough to download a movie torrent?

I've never used public wi-fi at one of those places. I wonder, do they have any blocks in place to prevent you accessing certain kinds of traffic?
I have never used it either so I have no idea how fast it is or if they have any kind of limits on what types of sites/files you can download or visit.

As for taking time to download a movie, if it is a fast connection I would bet you could download a full movie in the amount of time it took you to drink a coffee and eat a scone.

Still, I would guess you are probably correct that once they saw it was a starbucks they would just pass over it because there is no way to knowing who actually did the downloading.
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