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Old December 2nd, 2005
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I noticed this also, so I changed my settings so that no freeloaders could download of me and inorder not to be a freeloader you must share over 250 files.

Problem sloved...

In theory this would also help with your 'paranoid' thoughts, as the RIAA or whoever may try to use everyone uploads slots, are not going share over 250 files thus unable to download of you!

I would not consider myself a 'heavy' downloader and still manage to share over 1500 files so I feel 250 is a reasonable amount...
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I noticed this also, so I changed my settings so that no freeloaders could download of me and inorder not to be a freeloader you must share over 250 files.

Problem sloved...
This is how I am already configured, yet it's been a problem from day one (well over a year, maybe two).

No need to be paranoid; it's almost certainly a "bug" or someone found a way around the restriction. No organization is going to waste their time downloading dozens of copies of perfectly legal and obscure video files just to "log-jam" Gnutella. It would also be an absurdly slow and inefficient means of addressing the problem of piracy (not to mention that I still use Kazaa on ocassion... which is a much higher profile program when discussing pirarcy... which does not experience this particular problem).

No, I'm more certain that LW can be easily fooled by letting one user connect from multiple IP's.
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A few years ago I was looking at an apartment for rent and they were showing us it. The guy that was living there had 4 computers each on a separate desk in his living room all on doing something and they were networked together. So I wonder if a few computer nerds are configuring multiple computers with different file sharing programs and somehow using different IP addresses in order to do this. Who knows...

The files that are mostly "hogged" are the movie files. Not movies but porn files. Over 1000 to choose from and suddenly 5 people all want the same file over and over. Not a coincidence!

Therefore; in order to be fair here to the people that is downloading from me. I stopped sharing all of those files and watched the monitor tab for a while. Now I see lots of users downloading other files. All different ones and all from Limewire users too. Hmmmmm. Something I’ve never seen. I won’t be putting them back on till Limewire implements some sort of control on the upload slots that actually work!
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Therefore; in order to be fair here to the people that is downloading from me. I stopped sharing all of those files and watched the monitor tab for a while. Now I see lots of users downloading other files. All different ones and all from Limewire users too. Hmmmmm. Something I�ve never seen. I won�t be putting them back on till Limewire implements some sort of control on the upload slots that actually work!
I think you're 99% on the money there.

But rather than hackers using a complicated "network" of different PC's running different File Sharing programs and somehow combining the parts into a single file (I'm a programmer but can't think of how such an app would work), I suspect it is more likely someone has figured out a way to exploit a small loophole in LW... that the lowest setting on "Allow Freeloaders" is "rare" but not "never".
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The free loader slider in LW apparently doesn't work anyway. lol I heard it was disabled over 18 mths ago because it didn't work properly. Some other p2p networks have freeloader detectors, so I only know that it's not so easy to be able to detect this on the gnutella network the way it is now (from what one of the LW proggies said.)
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The free loader slider in LW apparently doesn't work anyway. lol I heard it was disabled over 18 mths ago
It would seem like an easy enough fix IF it were allowing duplicate IP addresses, but it's not, so I suspect your info is not 100% accurate and that the "Freeloader" slider hasn't been "completely" disabled.
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A reputable sourse recently posted that the freeloader filter has not in fact worked at all for some time. Confirmation of this would be interesting.
How comes when I select 'rarely allow freeloaders', I only have about 5 people downloading off me.

And when i allow freeloaders i have over 20?! with all my queued positions full aswell?!
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Probably because you have set it so that they have to have 250 plus files which sucks....


I dont have over 250 files yet and I assure you I am no freeloader
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Probably because you have set it so that they have to have 250 plus files which sucks....


I dont have over 250 files yet and I assure you I am no freeloader
I find it some what strange that you can be a senior member of the forum, but have not yet manage to aquire 250 files!

But hey if your not a freeloader. One day, when you get 250 files you will have access to ALL mine and many others vast collection of mp3s, adfs, roms, avis or whatever your heart desires....

something to look forward to ehh

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Do you know how to achieve senior member?
No obviously not......

To become a senior member means that you have posted 100 or more replies or queries in the forum...
I have not claimed to be an expert limewirer, but if I know an answer to somebodys questions I will help, I still learn new things from peoples posts all the time....

So before you sprout your mouth relise that I have approx 187 files and I only download what I want, not what you or anyone says I should have...

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it....
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