I decided to check what was causing my hard drive to thrash, and it turns out it was Kservice.exe, which is basically a peer-to-peer service that 4oD uses.

I’m happy with that; Bittorrent was designed to take the bandwidth strain off distributors so that they can lower the costs of their service, which helps us out too by making them cheaper. What 4oD does is lets me download the TV show I’m watching from other people, and not just Channel 4′s servers.

I’m all for legal ways to use Bittorrent technology; the more ways there are, the more accepted it’ll become and ISPs will stop bandwidth throttling. What I’m against though is Channel 4 not telling me it’s doing this! It was most likely the the terms of service, which I don’t think any one really reads (Google’s TOS say that you have to be over 18 to use any of their services) so it should be more advertised that it’s doing it like this.

Not only was it uploading without me knowing, it was also maxing out my connection! Well, it’s not even my connection, since I’m sharing with my neighbours (they don’t know yet). There’s no where you can turn it down or even off unless you know what you’re doing. Kservice carries on uploading even after you’ve shut down 4oD which sucks.