Transparant HTTP proxying by your ISP isn't all bad. Back when Virgin was NTL, if you didn't pay your bill, instead of cutting you off at the exchange they woul

Transparant HTTP proxying by your ISP isn't all bad. Back when Virgin was NTL, if you didn't pay your bill, instead of cutting you off at the exchange they would just put in place a proxy rule that redirected all HTTP requests to a page telling you to pay. Some broke friends of mine noticed that their already downloaded torrents still worked. Obviously, all non HTTP traffic worked just fine. They took to going to the pub at the end of the road, grabbing .torrent files and downloading them at home. Pretty resourceful. I considered hooking them up with a SOCKS proxy but never did.