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Originally posted by sonnet
What are the coincidences that all of those freeloaders could all have magically wiped out all data on their HDs? |
There are millions of people using P2P apps. Some are new users. Some are old. Some may have decided to do an HD format after the HD became so full of bugs and viruses that it became impossible or extremely frustrating to use the computer. Result=0 files to share->filtered out.
I agree that people must share, not be hit-and-runners. It's P2P.
P2P. It wouldn't be named thus if it didn't involve doing your share by allowing others to get files from you. And I'm not saying that
all of those filtered out by your freeloader filter aren't freeloaders. I just am willing to look at the other side too. And I don't mean that I support freeloaders. Not in a million years (add a couple of eternities too).
Just think about it this way: when you got your comp, you heard about LW and went and installed it. So, you're all excited about all this and enter the keywords to look for a song. No results. You were filtered out. Too bad.
How is Limewire supposed to discern those in
that case from genuine freeloaders?
This could also be the reason some people share trash: afraid of being filtered out by the freeloader filters, they rename their files to include this huge amount of popular keywords to make them appear in searches more often. Or maybe they just duplicate the files the have so that they look as if they are sharing more files than they actually are.
See? That's a rather interesting conversation if you ask me.
I think an adequate filter would store the number of uploads an IP adress does but that would use up a lot of HD space in the long run. Maybe the best way is BitTorrent's way: unless you hack the code, you are "forced" to share.