Why do people insist on using stupid limiting torrents?
Most of us already have most of what we want, and torrents generally take extra space.
It will not help, as who will seed a giant file forever?
Torrents do not encourage sharing.
It is a limited distribution system not a sharing system
eg. You don't need a torrent to browse the entire Mapraider archives via normal p2p
It is just a shared folder (like a normal network share).
Any file you want, can then be fetched from multiple sources (similar to torrent, but from anywhere.) I even share my Fonts folder !
eg.
This is me combining a DL from Medor and Mapraider. This bypasses Medor's slow download issue, spreads the bandwidth, and gives me faster DLs.
You can add as many direct web DLs as you want, but 2 was fast enough.
If UT-Files was available as a shared folder, people could DL as little or as much as they want.
All the files on UT-Files are distributed amongst us already.
They are not gone. It's just that you don't share them.
Mapraider is bomb-proof
If Mapraider had to save money, the downloads from the site can be removed, but all the links would still work as long as files can be seen in shared folders., and the mirrors exist The site structure is easily hosted and users can add more mirrors if they go down.
Even if Mapraider is completely gone, you can go to the Web Archive and still use every link to get files.
Mapraider has a "Plan-B" running at the same time as "Plan-A" and "Plan-C". It is automated and has mirroring and a redundancy factor built-in, with users able to add mirrors.
Would have been nice if "Beyond Unreal" had done this, as ALL the downloads would still work.
If FreakinMeany gets hold of the UT-Files archive, you will never have to worry about it disappearing.
Hypothetical Disaster
ForumMember: "Oh no! a nasty hacker has deleted Mapraider and all the files!"
FreakinMeany: "No they haven't, they only deleted 1 mirror and the html"
FreakinMeany: "Gimme 5 minutes and I'll put the site back. I'll copy all the files back tomorrow, I'm busy."
ForumMember: "Oh, but I need some files now
"
FreakinMeany: "They are all still available in a multitude of options. Click, download, be happy".
Times are changing, sites are changing.
We have to not just react but be pro-active, and change the way we make sites, so they are also a hub to the files, not just a storage facility.
Forward-planning is all we have to do. We have the free technology at our fingertips.
