Advocating Free Content
RGiles:
Bittorrent or emule are exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. Sharing by email is quite slow since you have to upload the full file to each person who requests it and you have to personally respond to each request. Also a lot of us have maximum attachment sizes so that we couldn't recieve something like a Lot or a Sim with a custom skin. Torrents or other p2p networks split up the bandwidth between everyone involved.
angelica:
A lot of the P2P networks I've seen are too infected with viruses and adware. The source of content is generally unknown. The main distributor changes by whoever is on at the time that has a full version. Torrents are created by their maker and you find them on their website or a collective of already approved torrents.
They come from a site knowing what you are downloading. P2P programs do not have previews.
RGiles:
Emule is also good in that the originator can share a file and give a direct link to the download so that the source is known and confirmed.
Torrents have the advantage of generally being faster. It makes them an excellent way to make an initial distribution. However torrents tend to die fast. I don't really understand why, but I know the way torrent clients work practically encourages you to stop sharing a file once you're done downloading because it's just in your way.
Emule is slower, but has the advantage of the shared files still being available a year later. Only the downloaded files themselves need to be kept in order to keep sharing, not an extra file like with torrents. The originator may not be able to keep sharing for one reason or another, yet the full file remains active on the nework and is still the same file that the originator gave with their confirmed link. If the file is changed, their link will never lead to the changed file.
Something like kazaa is completely useless for something like this because of viruses and because of the problem with source confirmation.
Grykon:
With yahoo's new 1gb of storage...you can keep your files already in an email for faster sending...not sure you can script yahoo to auto send a requested email though...that would be a hassle to hand enter even 50 different email addys for different files...
I dont' trust kazaa and some of those...and the most annoying thing about kazaa and the others is how the people grab what is available, but then they either don't share, or they have the outgoing throttled so bad you might as well take a trip around the world...and then the trojans and viruses that come with them...
Haven't really seen torrent or the other.
Delphy:
The problem with file sharing such as eMule or Bittorrent is that 1. the person needs to have the software and 2. they are impatient.
It's one thing in a community of geeks (As we have on relicnews.com, another site I admin at), but when the majority of the community are people who *haven't* touched a p2p program in the past, you run into problems.
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