19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
3:41 p.m.
On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:54 AM, John Foust wrote:
It's clearly a common view - apart from right or
wrong. How many
users today expect all their movies for free, all their music for
free?
And that they should be able to download and upload all day long,
as much as their pipe can handle?
To many, an open ftp or web site is a free resource. Without any
previous indoctrination in an earlier culture that might prevent
wholesale downloading, they'll sap it until they're tired of it.
I've been trying to avoid this thread, but I'm having a hard time
ignoring this.
I find the idea somewhat idiotic that someone puts up a web
server, or an *anonymous* ftp server, and then gets all bent out of
shape when people actually use it. I mean, sure, it's rude to just
scrape the hell out of someone's server all at once, but part of the
responsibility must lie with the people putting the material out there.
We KNOW the Internet is an overgrown TV for probably 75% of its
current users. We KNOW that, for a decade and a half now, the
Internet has been facing a huge influx of largely nontechnical people
who don't know the first thing about etiquette, and refuse to learn.
We KNOW there is FTP and web server software that is readily
available that can handle rate- and connection-limiting to prevent
abuse.
And still people whine when people slurp all the bits that have
been made available to slurp?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL