Why You Should Not Be A P2p Leach

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Mr.Joshua@16 March 2003 - 00:28
I only let one person upload at the time, so that person get my full "attention"

Is that not the best way to do it, cos i'm kind of wondering about that?

What if their download cannot match your upload. e.g if they are on 56k modem. Then your upload availability is under utilised.

[lunatacs]

firewall: i just use the XP one, i'm sure its not very good..

omg, please change to sygate or outpost xp firewall....isn't good.

[N£MO]

Nice, well presented post and welcome to the forum

[Chilly]

At the end of the day it’s your choice on what you do isn’t it?

Like I have said time and time again, you can sit there all night checking everyone that downloads of you to see if they are sharing, which to me is just a waste of quality time on the net.
Or you can do what 40% of all the others do and that is to go against what the P2P network is all about.
Actual Test Quote RN

I used data from 169 different users that connected to me when I was a supernode:

28% (47) shared nothing
38% (64) shared less than 10 files
66% (112) shared less than 100 files
96% (162) shared less than 1000 files

So 40% of all Fast Track users are leechers. No surprise, really.
And that is coming from the developer of the program.

Like you say some of them don’t have any files to share, yes some are genuine.
Well that’s how it seems to you, they could have just had got there films and other files and put them to another directory that’s not being shared.
My question to that is, if you were new to this program would you go straight in at the deep end and download that latest screener of a film?, no you wouldn’t.
Once you have install the program are you telling me there is nothing on your hole hard drive that you cant share not even pictures or program or any other kind of media or clip, that you have had of previous P2P programs etc, I find that hard to believe.

Then there are the people that think if I share my folder, does this mean people can hack into my pc? Understandable I thought it when I first started out, this could possibly be another reason why people don’t share.

Another reason why people might not share is because of this talk about the RIAA or what ever it’s called, sending bills to people or getting cut of by there ISP’s for ripped of software and copyrighted music and films. Is it true or is it lies I don’t know?
Here is a quote: I got an email the other day, saying that I was infringing copyright laws, and that I was going to get the crap sue-ed out of me!!! They caught me with Lord of the Rings the 2 towers!!! I downloaded a firewall! Will this help??? What do I do? And keep in mind that I don’t wanna delete my kazaa lite!!! PLEASE HELP!!!
People read things like that what are they going to do?

The biggest problem is the program for having such a stupid option to disable sharing, when the whole idea of the P2P network is to share, so why is it there?

So you decide!

[dingoBaby]

60% of more than 4 million people on the network are sharing...thats alot of people. Just one way of looking at things.

[Fatal Error]

Originally posted by Chilly@15 March 2003 - 21:31
At the end of the day it’s your choice on what you do isn’t it?

40% of all Fast Track users are leechers. No surprise, really.


The biggest problem is the program for having such a stupid option to disable sharing, when the whole idea of the P2P network is to share, so why is it there?

So you decide!

Nice post.. and I have to agree with you. Alot of people are under mis-conceptions, many of them deliberately instilled in them by people looking to serve their own interests.."you'll get caught".. "you'll get sued".."you'll get hacked".. "you'll lose your internet service" etc,etc.. We all take risks, if nobody did, we wouldnt be having this conversation.. because p2p programs such as this,couldnt exist,because nobody would share..nothing to download. I choose to share..thats a risk I take.

There are always going to be those that will abuse an option that was developed for the benefit of the many. I only used the "disable filesharing"option once, when I was new to the program and accidently "shared" the entire contents of my hard-drive ! (I was glad that option was there&#33 Who would of ever thought that the "find more files from this user" option would be used to copy media file lists and send them to your ISP as "evidence" ! That really caused me a dilemma, being a broadband user..now I dont know what to download next !

At the end of the day..only you know why you made the choices you made,but consider this, very little if anything can be done to you for sharing your files. Your ISP has to respond if something is brought to their attention,but for the most part, they wont look for it, because filesharing generates a huge portion of their revenue. Somehow, I dont think my ISP would be willing to lose my account ($1100+/Yr) because "Purple Porkupine" didnt get his.002 cent commission on the song I uploaded.

Sure I take a risk.. but I also use ALL of the precautions available to me, if I get caught.."they earned it" Still not much they can do to me.

[Jibbler]

Originally posted by lunatacs@15 March 2003 - 19:06

firewall: i just use the XP one, i'm sure its not very good..

omg, please change to sygate or outpost xp firewall....isn't good.

The winxp firewall is excellent, I swear by it. Quick to enable, doesn't require any resources like sygate or zone alarm, and it is integrated into the operating system. Most users know very little about TCP/IP or port settings, and wouldn't know how to configure a firewall anyway. Microsoft does it all for ya. All you micro$oft haters out there will eventually give in to big Bill.--

Jibbler

[ryanraab]

I share 18.2 gb worth of stuff mostly episodes/movies/games and some music. I only have cable non full-duplex but when I'm download lots of files my downloaders have 100 kb of download speed. So I'm helping out. I don't get why people don't share. I can't wait until I reach the 50 gb mark of stuff I'm sharing. Plz join in. If you don't share then people will not be able to get what they want and think k-lite sucks and go get a different p2p program. Which means you lose out leachers? Also don't let it be a reason that your sharing because it's fake files that you are sharing because I will haunt you down and fucken blow your dumb witted brains out.

[sArA]

I started sharing straight away, and on my crappy 56k modem, immediately downloaded (well over 3 days) a film......I guess its just a case of being brave and considering that most users are pretty ok people....saying that I have Norton AV and sygate firewall......just to be on the safe side. It never occurred to me not to share. I thought it was fun to be able to share my cool game roms in exchange for some episodes of Lexx and some mp3s...

I do find however, that some people cut me off even though I share over 250 files....must be cos I am a slow 56ker......believe me...if I could afford it I would be on dsl or similar...but well.......not at this time.....

So all you broadband guys....spare a thought for 56kers....we are slow but keen, and just want to join in the fun...we have the frustration of days of downloading for bigger files...if we have the patience...you can cut us some slack....thanks....

[ryanraab]

Don't worry If you ever download from me and you have a real bad connection that is only giving you 0.5 or my cable slows down like usual dam thing. I'll not cancel you. I use to have a 56k but before when I had it the only thing I use it for was to search news on the web and chat on furoms. So I did not experience what you poeple went through and I probably would not have the patience and frie my computer. I really need broadband how much does it usually cost.