LimeWire and leeching
p2p news / p2pnet: Still on events which have overtaken – literally – Empornium, meaning a lock-out for former admins and a change in design, at TorrentFreak, Iceman sided with Jasperwillemn, saying, "Yes i absolutely agree with you man [that Torrent users prefer programs where everything can be tweaked] limewire is the best gnutella client but what they are proposing is a perfect leecher and it against the nature of bittorrent protocol’," says the Limewire blog, going on:
"Do torrenters really have it so bad that they’re now trained to tweak every knob & slider in order to make their torrent programs work?
"This is what we’re hoping to change with LimeWire’s BT integration. It will just work. Not tweaking will not equal leeching. In fact, tweaking will probably lead to leeching if people change settings around and accidentally break things. (Of course, we’ll hopefully have warnings for that.)"
Limewire says it, too, is worried about leeching – "That’s why if you try and kill the upload of a torrent, it will warn that doing so will also stop the download.
"All the bells and whistles and fancy options will arrive, don’t worry… you just won’t need them, so we’re leaving them out of the initial release. All of you modders and tweakers out there will be able to mod and tweak (and even better, you’ll be able to mod the code itself), but for everyone that’s doing it because they think they need to: Live in fear no longer! Tweaking should never be mandatory, and it certainly won’t be mandatory with LimeWire."
Digg this.
Also See:
lock-out for former admins – Targetpoint grabs Empornium, July 10, 2006
Limewire blog – Trained for Training, July 9, 2006
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