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We won't t take your sucker bet.
Brad, you might find someone really stupid to take your sucker bet, but we sure won't. Prosecute a customer? In a small city? Good way to wreck a business. (I suppose that you were hoping that we would do it that way so you wouldn't have to wreck it by forcing us to allow P2P.) We'd do it only if someone were tampering with our network and caused severe damage that we couldn't stop. But we can detect and mitigate P2P and we are doing it.
Nonetheless, it is plainly criminal activity. You just don't want to admit you're supporting criminals.
As for your question just above, it is again loaded. P2P cannot be used properly or for legal purposes on our residential accounts, because our Terms of Service do not allow it. And P2P is always harmful, because it circumvents the weak fairness and congestion control mechanisms of TCP/IP (which rely upon trusting "ends" that cannot be trusted).