I guess the Insane Clown Posse will have to change their acronym then. Lol. I work in the telecom/aDsl portion of At&t. I do field work everyday. And from time to time I have seen "monitoring" devices whether it be recorders or even cameras for the local police. I have never personally installed one myself, but for sh!ts and giggles I knocked one out by disconnecting the dial tone. Lets just say that is was up and running in less than 20 minutes.

They take those things serious. Believe it or not it is incredibly simple to tap a phone line. It is sooooo simple. All you need is the equipment and a basic understanding of telephone networking. As far as being charged for shared bandwidth, Im glad I got a dedicated subscriber line. I remember the days of the original napster and waiting until 2 am to start downloading so it would go faster than later in the day when everyone else was online. I was using Time Warner then and I was always mad at the quality of service I got.