FileUniverse official statement, listen up.

[Felix the Cat]

But TDATL, this is the Internet, nobody really cares about anyone else as long as they're getting their pr0n at 150KB/s.

[TDATL]

lol. I get that. but it doesnt work like that. you can't just drain all the bandwidth out there for your benifet (please note when I say "can't" I don't mean it physicaly or morally, I mean practicaly). Like I said in the first post. ISP's watch these things. P2P is actually pretty slow. I try bittorrent and bitcoment to receive a few promotional movie clips and what not to see how it functioned. I Like to know how things work and this thing is messy. I can get 200 kb down and alot higher sometimes from lots of direct download (conventional) sites. however. there were almost twice the seeders as leachers on a couple hundred meg file. and I was gettin 15 ~ 40 kb down. took almost a day due to having to set the joker up which involves opening a ton of ports to the outside world. also other people in the house were going crazy wonderering WTF is goinin on with the internet. it was taking 4 minutes to load a yahoo page that normally took less than 1/2 secound. thats how much drain it pulled for a measly 40kb down max.

so the just of it is. it really doesnt help you any and hurts the whole internet as a consquence. and when the ISP's ever feel someone is draining speed from their other clients then your back to my one of two things situation in the first post.

[mongus]

Azureus, uses only 1 port iirc.

you have had bad experience with bittorrent, as, in a good seeded file, it can totally squeeze your bandwith to its max.

The part about network lag is true, but its also true that, bittorrent is for the transfer of big files, not single maps.

That means, it should be used as a standalone map source containing large map packs, not a built in solution for getting them 1 by 1.

so, you download first, and play later.

all this will lose importance once the new map format is in use.

[TDATL]

all this will lose importance once the new map format is in use.

lol so we have been goin on forever and its all mute? *sighs* well its good to hear the problem is taken care of.

going to get some shut eye now. so many posts so little time.

[Tim Blokdijk]

TDATL, I'm truly amazed on how you seem to have a reasonable clue on how the bittorent protocol works and still manage to conclude that it's a bad thing.

[Forboding Angel]

bittorrent itself is not a bad idea, but in this particular application it's not exactly stellar.

[ILMTitan]

Mostly in response to

3. "It was designed more with the thought of how to get around legalitys of filesharing of licenced products not with the general health or function of the internet as a whole"

but also a bit of #2.

I like bittorrent and felt compelled to defend its honor.

[TDATL]

ah. ok. no problem. I figured it was that. well really I should have left that comment out as it carry's no real weight toward this use of it. however I understand and respect your position on bittorrent. It is a nice piece of technology and technology is niether good nor evil so its original created purpose has no real meaning. many many things were made for one reason and used for a completely diferent one. regaurdless of this situation.

also I would like to apologize for my long posts and anyone confused by them. I tend to wright things the way I think. I tend to remember stuff fast but my head is kinda like a squigly doodle. tends to double back on itself and go unexpected directions alot. also I tend to over explain things ALOT. and there I go again. darn it. another long post. oh well. no one can accuse me of being one of the [post]"this sucks!!"[/post] commentors. but Im sure they will before long .