Author: pavel
Date: 19:35:52 10/31/00
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On October 31, 2000 at 07:17:16, Meon Hall wrote: >On October 31, 2000 at 07:06:36, Andreas Stabel wrote: > >>On October 31, 2000 at 00:28:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On October 30, 2000 at 22:49:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On October 30, 2000 at 21:30:09, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>>I just went and checked to see what Crafty has been doing recently, and it has >>>>>been idle for 44 minutes. It has played four games in the past eight hours. It >>>>>has played seven games so far today and it played eight yesterday. >>>>> >>>>>It doesn't seem that you need to worry that much about people hogging it. If >>>>>Crafty has been idle for 45 minutes, why not play against a Tiger? >>>> >>>> >>>>This is not real common. And Murphy's law often strikes. IE I logged on >>>>Friday and had two different complaints from humans that got interrupted. >>> >>>Just checked again and guess what? Idle: 44 >>> >>>bruce >> >>What's itching you. There are litterally tens of craftys you can play any >>time. There is scrappy which has the same hardware as crafty, you can >>download the source or an executable yourself. You have hundreds of other >>options, but still you go on and on like a five year old child wanting >>candy about playing exactly the one crafty which is reserved for strong >>human opponents. >> >>What is your real motivation for this nonsence ? >> >>Andreas Stabel > >i lik to complaining > >http://www.montypython.net/sounds/sketches/complaining.wav > >rgds Meon. Stolen Bandwidth Page You're here because you followed a link from a page that was illegally trying to direct-link to my sound files. First, calm down. You did nothing wrong. It's not illegal to follow a link. Linking from site to site is what makes the World Wide Web useful. However, there are two types of links. One goes from page to page so that you can easily move from one site to another. That's okay. All of us that run sites like getting links like that as it increases our traffic. However, there is a second type of link that IS NOT okay. Many sites, like mine for instance, carry a lot of files that are not web pages. They can be sounds, graphics, videos, Zips, programs or a hundred other formats. When a different site tries to link from their site directly to our files like sounds and pictures, it costs us a great deal of money. Although surfing a website is generally free, running one is quite expensive. We site operators pay for the domain name we use, the server that houses our site and especially, the bandwidth needed to transfer the files from us to you. When pirate sites try to live-link our files, we end up paying not only for our bandwidth, but theirs as well. Obviously, that presents a problem. It nearly twice as expensive to operate 2 sites instead of one and 100 times more expensive if I have to pay for the 100 sites that are pirating the files here. While I can afford to operate this site, I CAN'T afford to pay for all those others. Eventually, the expenses would rise to the point where I'd be forced to close down. That not only hurts me, it hurts you as well. If the pirate sites force legitimate sites like mine to close, they have no files left to link to and YOU have no files available to find. That sound file you were just trying to listen to would not exist and you'd be out of luck. Look at it this way. If a friend of yours stops by, you could easily offer him or her dinner. The money involved would probably not be a hardship to you. But what if 200 friends stopped by? Could you afford to feed that many people? What would happen if those same 200 people expected you to feed them EVERY DAY? Obviously, they'd soon eat you out of house and home. That's what bandwidth pirates do to sites like mine. They steal from us EVERY DAY and expect us to pay for their sites. Well I'm tired of it! Luckily, a little server-level voodoo can help prevent some of the piracy and honest web-surfers like you call prevent the rest. You're welcome to come on into MontyPython.net and browse around for as long as you like. You're also free to find and listen to that sound file you came looking for in the first place. Make yourself at home. All I ask in return is that you let me know what site was trying to pirate my files. Below is a little button named "Notify Me". Just please click it. That justs sends to me the name of the website that was doing the linking. It DOES NOT send me your name, your email address or any other information about it. It just sends me the address of the site that's trying to steal my files. That way I can prevent them from doing it and I can keep this site up and running. this is what I got following your link ;) doing illigal stuff..eh? Pavel
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