Monday, May 26, 2003
Kazaa Lite UsersSo, all this messing around with file share systems over the past week or so has made me realise people are really stupid.
Well, yeah, we knew this already, but what's frustrating is how people don't understand how file sharing works... or rather, how it should and could work.
The theory is, one person starts sharing a file to say 3 people, then once they've downloaded it from the first person, they should stay online for a while allowing others to download it from them, so you get a snowball effect, till there should be thousand of people sharing the same file, creating great download speeds.
That's how it should happen.
What actually happens is, 2 of those 3 people downloading the original file either go offline once they've got it, or remove it from their shared folder, meaning no-one else can get it from them, and the 3rd does the most stupid thing and renames the file. This means you have 2 people sharing what is basicly the same file, but with different names, which completely negates the whole point of the system. They're back at square one.
Duh!
People, if you're p2p users, do everyone a favour, stay online an hour or so after you've completed your download, and don't rename the thing. It might look cool to have your name on a file that's going round, but it screws up the whole system.
Labels: p2p
Steve 4:31 AM [+]
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