If you're doing a constant 80 mbps of traffic, you're going to get a bill from Linode at the end of the month for a minimum of $2569.

I like to look at it the same way as Tor. If I'm making a constant ~80Mbps of traffic for 3 days and I receive a single, automated complaint of "ripping a website" I'd say it's pretty successful when you consider the legitimate amount of traffic and the amount of traffic that caused the complaint. (About 0.00003% abusive.)

You've got yourself a big juicy non-sequitur there. You're assuming the ONE complaint is the 100% of all complaints that could have been made. And assumption is mother of all fu....