You are an exception (to the average user -- which are mostly leeches) rather than the norm.Originally posted by bobfred@31 July 2003 - 05:39
I share 496 files, totalling about 14 1/2 GB.
People should at least share what they download, like I do.
Anything that I download stays in My Shared Folder, except fakes.
People should realise that if we stop sharing, Kazaa will just disappear, and no one will be able to get anything from anyone.
The whole idea of P2P is sharing, not just downloading.
I try to keep my upload bandwidth as close to maxed out without causing web browsing problems as possible. I am sharing well over 10 GB on Kazaa right now, but it would take over a week at max upload speed for my connection to upload it all ONCE!
Kazaa Lite K++ isn't so good for sharing 1,000's of files at once -- it bogs down as the number of shared files increases and probably crashes once download requests start coming in too rapidly. (ie: 100-1,000 a min or more.)
And it is impossible for many of us heavy-users to share as much as we download.
Even if I only download at ~13 KB/sec on average, factored over 1 day that's 1 GB. Over a year, that's 365 GB. In 3 years time, over 1 TERABYTE (TB). Needless to say, all my hard drives combined aren't big enough.
This is what I meant earlier when I typed:
"We can't share everything to make up for the ones who share nothing."
Something has to give -- if I have <1 GB free I either have to delete something from my hard drive (preferably after backing it up to CD-r...) or stop downloading.
It's not always an easy choice, but I am trying to save the 'rare' stuff and am ditching the 'popular' stuff. (Where I mean rare=hard-to-find, not rare=few people want it.)
WE must decide what files and ideas continue to be shared or die.
Not RIAA!
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