I guess it's hard to tell when most american also use the word America to talk about USA.
That's the part that pisses me of. I get it when U.S. citizens call their country America or refer to themselves as Americans since they consider their country the only one of the continent that's worth mentioning. I even get it when people from other continents refer to the USA as America since it's the only country of the continent they can spell. But other Americans?
Please enlighten me on how to differentiate when a US resident use America (or american) to speak about his country rather than the continent. English is not my first language.
I know they misuse the word and 99.9 % percent of the time they'll be talking about their country, but saying "American" to imply "not Canadian" is just wrong in my opinion.
As you might have guessed by now, I'm American as well. Paraguayan, to be exact. One of those countries nobody knows how to spell (and, from personal experience, most Europeans believe to be somewhere in Asia).
My ISP blocks BitTorrent traffic, and I can assure you that there wasn't a single legal complaint. (Pirated movies are openly sold on the street here, so downloading them is no biggie.)
It's almost as if someone powerful might have an actual business incentive to keep the DVD street selling going...
Good thinking.
Here the incumbent phone companies are required to lease out their lines to resellers. The Cable companies also provide some competition (but apparently don't have to lease out their lines). Wireless is also an option (but don't have line-of sight).
I suppose most Satellite providers will block BT traffic as well.
There's only one phone company here, so DSL cannot have any competition. Cable is available only in a handful of cities (mine not included), wireless antennas usually won't work because of interference and mobile internet makes you pay big bucks after the first 1 GB / month.