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Originally posted by afisk but no one is forcing LimeWire users to install it, so the "stealing cycles" argument is a little suspect. |
You should read this thread and the others a little more.
LimeWire is using us as support, we are running Gnucleus or another profit free, open source client.
LimeWire is using my CPU cycles and I didn't choose to let you profit off of my file sharing efforts.
It takes time and money for me to share my files. I pay for a ISP, I pay for electricity, I spend time deleting spam from my files, I buy large hard drives, I mantain my system, etc...
I don't want that effort going towards your personal gain. You have no right to use my CPU & resources to profit without re-embursing me.
If you ran your own private LimeWire network then you would have to pay for that out of your own pocket.
When I share, I don't expect a third party (LimeWire corp) to make a profit from my efforts.
This is why we are blocking for profit clients.
The blocking is happening on Gnutella at the users choice, and on OpenSource P2P it's the "standard" to block them.
The more you spam/adware/spyware/cluster and a lot of other nasty things, the more people will block you on Gnutella. So you better watch how greedy you get.
Any developer making a buck like this is scum, the lowest kind. Like I said before, get a real job and quit sucking off of Gnutella.
Gnutella is not a corporate goldmine.