der Mouse wrote:
If you upgrade
your FTP server software to, oh, five years ago or
newer, you also have kiddie/downloader protection. So the cost
argument is a non-argument.
For you, maybe. Bully for you. Here we are again, decreeing that
people who don't happen to be running your idea of suitably recent
software are not worthy of running FTP sites.
If you think a decade is too "recent" then you shouldn't complain. Come
on, this stuff runs on a 386 for gods sake.
Your definition of courtesy is obscene.
Your
definition of generosity is stingy and parsimonious.
So someone's doing you a free service, and you're calling him stingy
and parsimonious because he's not prepared to offer this service to you
on exactly the terms you want?
With those kinds of terms, the service is useless. Is he willing to
burn DVDs for everyone? No? And nobody can mirror the site? Then
guess what, he'll die suddenly and his server will go offline and
everyone suffers as nobody has a complete copy of the archive.
Not once has anyone answered my question of "hasn't anyone learned from
the Don Maslin incident". I guess not.
This is ridiculous. I am beginning to think that the terms of some of
the people here in regards to "helping the hobby" is to hold onto
information in miserly fashion and dole it out in small bites weekly
like a priest or something. That helps nobody. If you truly want to
help you won't complain when someone else wants to help as well. People
willing to mirror archives spend THEIR MONEY and TIME as well on the
hobby. Or do you think they leech for leeching's sake?
If we were talking about pirated games or something we wouldn't be
having this argument. But we're not; we're talking about files and
information that are VITAL to keeping our hobby alive. You are not
thinking that far enough ahead. Who do you think will have this
information 20 or 30 years from now? What if it's all gone? Haven't we
lost enough to history already?
Do you
complain about your web server bandwidth as well?
I don't *have* a webserver, and this obscene culture of entitlement
that says it's okay to grab everything the server will let you grab
without consideration for what it may be doing to the remote host or
other users of it is one of the reasons why!
If it will cost you more money than you can afford, then don't put it
online. Simple as that.
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