I doubt it's against any T&C. The VM customer has no financial interest in the project.

I bet one lawyer will say yes it is and another will say no its not.

I bet you're probably correct. I doubt many if any VM customers run it anyway.

Of course they will. If your pc is constantly scanning the internet (mounting up 15TB of data by crawling websites), you are having a detrimental affect on other users. What these people don't realise is that it doesn't matter if you schedule your downloads for outside peak hours or not you are still affecting other users. We don't all work 9-5

You appear to have missed the point. The original premise put forward was that there is no completely legal way to chew through the vast amounts of data being claimed. I mentioned MJ12 to show that there is. Whether or not it is a reasonable thing to do on a home connection is irrelevant as is whether or not it's against ISP T&C the point is that it is 100% legal.

Of course the most likely reason for consuming terabytes of data is that copyright infringing video data downloading and streaming is taking place.

As it happens the one time I did run the MJ12 crawler was to "persuade" the ISP that I really wasn't the sort of customer they needed and t releaseme 3 months early (there wereother grounds too concerning their shoddy implementation of the IWF filter which blocked more than it should at times including some of my backups) although in truth it was more their new customer pricing that annoyed me.

Edited by kwikbreaks (Wed 25-Sep-13 10:48:16)