Advocating Free Content
kathy:
Oh sharing paid content is a definete no no in my book. Just because a site is pay and I do not care for pay sites does not mean I condone anyone stealing their content. Most of the sites I have seen have a strict policy forbidding sharing paid content. Everyone once in awhile you will see someone requesting a pay object but those are mostly overlooked or they are told this object can not be distributed.
RGiles:
Definitely agreed. What I mean specifically is that content creators themselves could start the filesharing process or that they agree to have someone else start it for them. It's something that could also be used as an alternate in the way that Inge described using yahoo groups. You could have the option to download directly or to download through filesharing. If your bandwidth got close to your limit, you could turn off the direct download links, but still have the content available in another way.
Grykon:
Thats a very interesting idea...kinda like have a second computer on you cable/dsl line...someone sends an email requesting a certain package for the game and it would auto-create and email back with that object...Has some great potential!
teresa7159:
A lot of yahoo groups and smaller sites say they are file share friendly. They don't mind you emailing their stuff to others. They generally just ask that you include the read-me file. This way people know where it came from and who the creator is and they get the credit they deserve. I have been getting things this way for several years. JUst need a big mail box. Mine is 2 gigs.
Teresa
angelica:
You're very right Inge, I did forget to put those options in. I think they are both reasonable.
On problem solving with file sharing, I don't know if others on this board are familiar with BitTorrent. You can make your larger files like houses into torrent files and allow others to download it from your computer. Once they have it, they can seed it as well. The more seeds available the faster it is downloaded. So there is no actual bandwidth consumed.
http://www.bittorrent.com/
Depending on how many you're hosting, it can slow down your DSL/cable a bit. However, I don't think the difference is noticeable unless you're having 500mb or more available at a time.
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