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1. It's illegal. No gray here, sorry: Berne Convention. Even that doujinshi, without explicit permission from the copyright holder, is illegal.
2. 60% of the traffic which comes from 5% of the users? Less? I'd like to see a breakdown.
3. Bandwidth isn't free, so in the end everyone will pay more because of you. Thanks.
4. What does this have to do with anything?
Flat fees work because the aggregate total consumption of your group is low enough that your fees can cover the market rate for bandwidth plus running and maintentance costs. A few leechers increase that total by an order of magnitude or more, so everyone must pay considerably higher rates for the service to stay solvent. Simple economics here.
The fact that you're nailed to no higher than 30KBps (oh, the humanity!) by packet shaping is one reason why you and your dorm-mates aren't paying a whole lot more.
I don't have problem leeching some material. I leech too. What I have a problem with are the download monsters, particularly those who start complaining when ISPs put limiters in place in order to remain both competitive and solvent. 30KBps my ass.