You ever browse the network?

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Thanks for the clarification trap.

Lee I realize this was just a scenerio, but why would any one set a 500 file limit on file sharing? If a person is just starting out and attemptin to build a library to share, he (she) is going to have to start somewhere. Shutting him out of the worlds largest sharing network seems, well, hoity toity, to me.

Dennis

Dennis you are absolutely right! Although I don't practice this, I assume that the people who do--do this to keep freeloaders out of their systems. Another possible reason is to keep trolls out i.e. companies looking for illegally shared content and I'm sure there are many non-clandestine reasons for setting high byte counts (other p2p system) and shared file counts (LimeWire.)

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Perhaps you're correct. I actually set my "freeloader" limit to 50. I do not want to shut out those who would like a few songs and I assume that in this day and time, most people can come up with at least 50 songs on their own with out the help of file sharing networks.

Heck young folks today can probably just rip all their CDs and have several hundred songs. However, for the benefit of those less fortunate I try to give them a chance.

Dennis

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Unregistered
[B]I won't get into all the X's and Y's. I will put it simple terms and I hope it makes sense and contributes to this string.

What I know: I see the same files *trying* to be downloaded day after day from me and the % sits at 0 while others are able to zoom in and out and receive what they wanted.

So, for myself, I believe my freeloader settings are working.



I'm not so sure about that. I don't know that much about it, but from personal experience I have a whole list of files to download that are always at 0%, and I'm sharing over a thousand mp3s. I hope no one classifies THAT as freeloading!

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Dennis J.

Does that make ME a freeloader? My measley 34 shared files take up 3.1gb on a system that has less than 17 to work with. Not a single one of them is an .mp3, either. I've also added ORIGINAL content, both from myself, and stuff found elsewhere. And yet, YOU consider me a FREELOADER? ..!.. ..!..

piagi9 you're definitely NOT a freeloader IMO! My freeloader limit is set to 20.

Thanks for sharing

Yes, I'm sure he does. He probably browsed your shared files and decided that he should classify you personally as a freeloader.

My limit is also at 50, simply to make sure you are classified as a freeloader.

Seriously though, that's unfortunate. I wish you could check and see if people downloading from you were sharing. Most of the time I am unable to browse even when it says I can. WIth all the different clients out there it just doesn't seem like you'll ever be able to check for everyone. That leaves us with the flawed min files shared to not be considered a leech thing. Luckily for you, not everyone sets it at 50.

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Bartles and James

It just pissed me off, is all. So I'm not in to music and dirty pics. Sue me. My files average 200+Mg, and some of them I don't even WANT anymore, they're just there 'cuz people are still accessing them. That's what sharing is about.
And I had been fighting for days to clear up enuff space (failed)for a .vob file (need my practice) when I read that, so I just kinda blew.
Feel bad about it now. Sorry. Don't need bad feelings on this forum. Or anywhere, for that matter.

P.S. I cheated. Added a bunch of pics and mp3's to get in most peoples limits. Just hate to see the bandwidth wasted on people downloading them is all. Still, it's their life...