Philosophy Of Sharing
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: Evilgeek
This is a question/thought about the philosophy of sharing or at least how to share. I have about 3/4TB of movies and tv series that I have been sharing for the last 6 months or so. So many that several times I have had people message me to thank me for showing up on so many searches. Anyway while I have been sharing I have noticed that my network gets slower and slower. What I have been wondering about is my name/ip getting cached by people in searches. I noticed when I start up Klite some of my older downloads will try several of the other people I have been downloading that file from in the past, it seems like it does it faster then a search would show up, and it seems unlikely that the first hit would be the same person who was sharing it 8 hours previously. It also seems like it checks when I try to resume a search that has been queued or MSNed. I'm thinking because I show up so much, that so many people have my info cached it is wasting a lot of my bandwidth. Is this true?
Anyway, a bit of this is moot to me, I have changed the way I share. I have talked myself into thinking the caching is killing my network, and also sooner or later showing up on so many searches is going to get me a knock on the door from some people I don't want to meet (or more likely my ISP cutting me). I now have a directory with 10 movies that I really think are either hard to find, or just should be shared, and only share those. Then each week I take 3 out and add 3 others. That and I am also forced to share my downloads directory. This is however still a bit of a moral problem for me (as far as morals and freely sharing (stealing) copywrited material goes). I know that if everyone would do this then the pool of available material would greatly suffer, and in turn I will have harder times finding stuff. I also have a feeling that if someone gave it to me, I should in turn give it to others.
I don't see any solution. Sorry if this has been brought up before, I didn't find anything like it looking around. Anyway, anyone have any thoughts about this?
Evilgeek
Posted by: jetje
Evilgeek, most important is that you share. The other thing i don't know.
Posted by: TClite
i would have thought that results would have been cached on their system with no affect to you surely?
I share mostly movies, about 163, and have some really good quality stuff, I also notice that the same people seem to be uploading from me, however i have not noticed any difference in network integrity....still seems to run at normal capacity.