I have very basic cable (basically air channels + a few extra freebies, no box) since my building offers it. But I’ve never overtly paid for cable in my life. And no one has mentioned using BitTorrent plus an anonymizing service.
As far as a land-line, I’m keeping mine. It’s worth the $25 or so per month extra to have a phone that always works in the (212). Most VoIP sounds like shit compared to the phone network, which was designed to carry voice and does it well. It’s not only a matter of speed, but of latency.
