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I probaly speak for all the 56k users on Kazaa or peer-2-peer networks in general, but a tiny slack should be given to us lowly dial-up users. I always share my files, even to leeches because they usually abort their downloads from me. I use Winmx and Kazaa lite; 1 thing i dont do is share files across different networks. That way my mp3s from winmx can be completely downloaded and shared to other winmx users. At least on Winmx, u can cancel and place leeches on your ignore list.
bogus!
i don't think you can define a leech by how many files he/she is sharing... myself i'm only sharing 15 files right now. so am i a leech? you might think so but i don't. the files i share are recent movies that come off of irc and are all extremely high quality (or popular games).
In the past 18 hours I've never had a lull in my upload (currently 43kbs). so call me a leech but i think it's ridiculous to classify someone on the sheer amount of files he shares, if that were the case i could trade in one of my movies for 1000 mp3's and no longer leech ;)
rk
Did you even read what I said in this thread? Read it again.Quote:
Originally posted by reignking@11 February 2003 - 07:55
bogus!
i don't think you can define a leech by how many files he/she is sharing... myself i'm only sharing 15 files right now. so am i a leech? you might think so but i don't. the files i share are recent movies that come off of irc and are all extremely high quality (or popular games).
And I couldn't care less if you or anyone else is a leech. I don't block leechers or anyone else for that matter. But FastTrack users don't share as much as other p2p network users and many people don't like that so they use other p2p programs.
ok. so i'm not a leech... but is there a way to measure how much a person is sharing as opposed to how many? i think that would be more accurate of a leech.
i dont care for movies because i can not get the big sound with them
as i can on real dvd`s
and its such a waste of time
but for mp3`s I crave that music baby.. Yeah...
Well it took me 2 weeks to share over 100 files and im on dial up
so you complainers have no excuse
But all they are getting from me is porn movies
I will disable them now because some people
might like some good music you know..
I usually have more uploads then downloads and most
of them are 3 of my collection of sex movies
harddly between of them i find somebody downloading music...
Don't do that. :angry: It is rude, adds to total bandwidth, and we've set a limit of only two post-whores at a time. Unfortunately for you, Neo and FC have had those ranks filled for quite some time. :DQuote:
Originally posted by namzuf9@10 February 2003 - 23:52
Hey you look kinda nice when you smile!! (I'm just trying to fill out my posts to lose the noob title!!) :P
Back on topic: I hope random nut does another sample or writes a program to keep track of it, because if those numbers are accurate it is quite sad. :( We'd need to do some major campaigning to help turn that around.
I once found the mp3's of Peggy Lee from album "the Man I love".. but since noone chose to share the files they downloaded.. it's impossible to locate these files... bummer! If you are the one that shared these in the first place, please contact me.. can transfer ICQ?
Thanks....
I hate people who share too many files : it slows down my system when I retrieve their file list and sometimes freezes Kazaa.
Incase you are new to this file sharing thing. Use a search engine and get a file called
freeripmp3
http://www.mgshareware.com/frmmain.html
It is a simple, fast and easy way to fill your shared folder with cds you already have
so you don't have to be called a leecher and get canceled by other people.
ciao,
JM
How about mine for a different, and laudable(?), reason for not sharing.
I have just stopped sharing 2,000+ files. The reasoning was that quality was so often poor and that the same old stuff is just being churned around, getting re-titled and wasting time.
What I eventually found out what to do is to rip my own CDs, using EAC at 320 kB/s and AlbumWrapping them. Now all I share is stuff that is new to the network - all of it fit to re-burn to CD quality.
The same now goes for software. All I share is what I have bought plus some rare programmes.
Next thing - I restrict uploads to 5 at a time. This means that someone can get a complete CD from me in less than an hour! Is that Bad!!!
The reasoning was forced because my pc just seemed to run out of RAM.
That may be true for you but I find that most of the people who d/l from me do share. It may be certain files that are popular and you happen to have them.
I have quite a broad range of music files and sometimes video and I have all sorts of people on all sorts of connections and I find that of the ones I do check most of the time they are sharing...sometimes too much lol.
I once clicked to see what this guy was sharing and it almost crashed my computer because there were so many files lol
Some people share the Windows System folders to give the impression they are sharing. Most people that download from me are sharing, but a lot of the RPG-downloaders aren't. It's unfortunate that they don't get those books.
I take that back LOL.Quote:
Originally posted by xander2003@12 February 2003 - 16:21
That may be true for you but I find that most of the people who d/l from me do share. It may be certain files that are popular and you happen to have them.
I have quite a broad range of music files and sometimes video and I have all sorts of people on all sorts of connections and I find that of the ones I do check most of the time they are sharing...sometimes too much lol.
I once clicked to see what this guy was sharing and it almost crashed my computer because there were so many files lol
I checked a load of uploaders that have had files from me, they WERE sharing when they were downloading. When I checked about an hour later only 2 out of about 20 were sharing ANYTHING!
it could be the logged out! you won't find files then. Also the "find more frome same user" sometimes fails!
@ketoprak, i have one system sharing over 3000 files (mostly music). People seem pretty glad if they find THE one rare file they've been lookin' for. I don't run it for people to check my system, i run it for sharing. I can understand your problem, i have experienced the same sometimes. It's not nice when that occur's but think sharing is more important. Btw the other machines running just shares about 150 each, all divx.
Back on topic, saw some posts in our board, from members that say the don't share. That i really can't believe. I think if you wanna participate in p2p, you need to share. That's the basic principle. Don't matter how much, but you share. Cap your upload speed i don't mind, but always share. B)
Sharing TOO much is worse than sharing only a few popular/desireable files.
I kick off leeches usually, after messenging them.
The ones that reply back quickly with a good reason for not sharing (for them) I sometimes allow to download.
The thing that bothers me the most is when they say they're on cablemodems and don't want to share because it'd slow their download speeds down.
Leeches often have message blocking on too...
Random Nut's random survey is probably close to accurate -- but if anything it may even be on the LOW side!
Those that share mp3's number in the millions, but those that share movies or tv shows are FAR rarer.
Although it's 'copyrighted content', I haven't heard of anyone getting into trouble for sharing broadcast tv episodes.
I share almost entirely anime episodes -- and finding others sharing any particular anime series is near impossible except for the most popular ones. Somewhere between 30% and 60% of the people who (try to) download from me aren't sharing a THING.
LoveUSA and I seem to be on the same wavelength.
Contrary to my earlier posting, I have not been using my pc as a tool, so at the moment I am sharing about 30 gig. To save memory, I have wrapped most of the artists that I have downloaded and called them DIY Compilations - seems a fair compromise, although I am sorry for those with only 56 kbps.
To the point with LoveUSA - there is altogether too much 'popular' stuff hogging the bandwidth. Get more old and/or rare stuff out there!
Sorry, I only have 27 Peggy Lee tracks, none of them from the Man I Love. If you get them I'd love to have them.
Lastly, I would comment that the CDs from our own very modest collection, none of which I ever saw on KaZaa previously, are being uploaded like hot cakes. That does confirm to me that there is a great demand for different, rather than 'popular' music.
don't agree but maybe because i don't understand what you exactly mean. Just like stuwho said it's nice to find rare things if you're lookin' for them. Man what will you miss if only the popular things are out there. Now sometimes just download some music cause i'm lookin for the unknown. Also oldies, not the famous ones but the ones that have hardly reached the charts. Live tracks or even better quality bootlegs. FC come help me out on this one, you must know where i'm talking of. Btw same goes for movies, it's easy to find "catch me if you can" but try "discovery of heaven" or "La Haine" the last two are much better but go find them.... i surely will miss that if every one only start sharing the blockbusters an top40 music.Quote:
Originally posted by Switeck@14 February 2003 - 07:20
Sharing TOO much is worse than sharing only a few popular/desireable files.
So why is sharing to much worse, i give limitted people acces at the time so they can get fair upload speed.
So you have to wait, well i think if someone is lookin' for the rare stuff he enjoy's the waiting cause he know if he gets it the waiting was worth it. For these files isn't speed important it's the gathering that counts. B)
<_< Thats cause you use Kazaa.....browse somebody elses files on another program.....alot easier.Quote:
Originally posted by ketoprak@12 February 2003 - 04:13
I hate people who share too many files : it slows down my system when I retrieve their file list and sometimes freezes Kazaa.
Sorry, but I do not think that your survey or its findings are very accurate. An example would be myself.
Although I do not think I have ever downloaded from you, if I was a part of your survey you would clasify me as a leech.
I only share 50 files out in this community, but I do not download.
I am specialised in the types of files that I share, in my case I share current reality TV shows.
I specialise, so that the users out there know they can look for me as a user to get those specific files every week and they do not have to worry about the wait being too long because they do not have to wait behinmd users dowloading a huge movie when they are looking for a 20min or 45 min reality show.
Again I download maybe a movie a week from the Kazaa Community yet I upload thousands of megs a day.
I do not think I am a leech do you?
Before replying to a thread, read the whole thread.Quote:
Originally posted by Area69@15 February 2003 - 04:06
Again I download maybe a movie a week from the Kazaa Community yet I upload thousands of megs a day.
I do not think I am a leech do you?
:o I knew I was doing something wrong around here. :oQuote:
Originally posted by random nut@15 February 2003 - 02:09
Before replying to a thread, read the whole thread.
Both are being taken off of picstore I think. That might have something to do with it.Quote:
Originally posted by Infidel@11 February 2003 - 02:59
"freak's" avatar = -1 bytes. :huh:
Am i the only one seeing this?
edit: FuNkY CaPrIcOrN's also -1 bytes?
Why dont people partition their drives or store stuff on a slave drive, so when they format their pc they cant say "OH I LOST ALL MY STUFF. I HAD TO START OVER AGAIN". How f**kin lame is that???
BK
i say 75% of users share less than 100 files. <_<
I said that on another post... Thought it might be usefulQuote:
Accually, I get really fed up with people that I see dl at least half my files (ahem, kazzaliteuser@kazza, cough cough, one of the people who never even changed their name: defaltuser@kazaa cough cough). I share 488 files. I am on a cable modem. I allow 8 simultanious uploads at a time. (I believe this is a lot ) And then people who dl dont even share. That ticks me off.
They (if they already dont) should make a prog that auto kicks peps who dont share.
That was wierd. When Posting the above it gave me this error:
"Mail Error!
SMTP protocol failure!
Host: kazaalite.mine.nu
Return Code:
Return Msg:
Invision Power Board Error: Could not open a socket to the SMTP server
Check your SMTP settings from the admin control panel"
Then I got dns server (404) errors. I go back and refresh and I posted twice! :angry: oops
When you get the error just go back to the thread and refresh THAT PAGE!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH <_<