Sharing Files via Torrents?

[45002]

Here we go again.


Poor Peter wants everything for free while Moneybags Matt swans off to Bondi in the Lear Jet at the site's expense.

What nonsense!

We pay for this site and it's a bargain. What money comes in pays for the resources it requires and whats left pays for the free downloads.
Reduce the revenue and you lose the free downloads.
OK, so some money goes to the roadshows but that pays for itself in new subscriptions.

I don't imagine Matt makes a penny from us. I bet he's subsidising it from his own pocket.


Using Torrent will reduce the income to the site and I will not allow any of my uploads to be disributed in that way.
This also includes routes using my wagons as scenic items.

I will not do anything to harm this site.

Ian you hit the nail on the head and said it better than anyone else could have put it

I doubt any commercial publisher/developer would want much to do with a third party that encourages use of torrent. Too much affiliation with Warez and piracy.

I'm on BT Broadband basic package which, when it actually connects (funny thought Broadband was supposed to always be on!), gives a 2.2 Mb connection with a 2Gb cap per month. Enough for my use of the Internet though that could change I suppose. Besides speed is as much linked to the capacity of the servers at t'other end as the actual connection.

Unfortunately just as the arguments raged around the use of CD's or subscription sites to distribute MSTS content as file sizes for everything get bigger, that bandwidth doesn't come free.

Big vern

BT have just increased usage

Effective immediately,The cap for BT’s Option 1 priced at £10 a month, is going up from 2GB to 5GB and the cap for Option 2, which costs £15 a month, is rising from 6GB to 8GB.

The 40 GB caps for consumers on the £23 per month Option 3 service has been removed to allow unlimited downloads.

MARTIN

[petermakosch]

Here we go again. . . .

Ian you hit the nail on the head and said it better than anyone else could have put it

Did you even read my response?
It should be noted that many (most) people will probably not use the idea as a way of downloading, most will stick with the subscription to the site so I do not believe there would be a significant drop in subscriptions to the site - like i said to begin with, there are other things that are included with a premium subscription, not just a no-limit download.

[45002]

Here we go again. . . .

Ian you hit the nail on the head and said it better than anyone else could have put it

Did you even read my response?
It should be noted that many (most) people will probably not use the idea as a way of downloading, most will stick with the subscription to the site so I do not believe there would be a significant drop in subscriptions to the site - like i said to begin with, there are other things that are included with a premium subscription, not just a no-limit download.

Yes

And as Ian said here we go again

MARTIN

[gswindale]

With the majority of people on broadband

I would be very interested as to where you get your information from.

BT have quoted that during January 2007 they passed the 10 million homes capable of broadband. That's CAPABLE of Broadband, NOT connected to Broadband.

Correction - BT announced that during the week commencing 1st Jan 07 they would connect their 10 millionth customer (according to both the BBC and Thinkbroadband). Reading the press release on the BT site also implies that it is connections rather than homes capable of connecting

The ten million wholesale connections are shared between BT Wholesale and Openreach. BT Wholesale supplies services to more than 8.7 million customers (via service providers including BT Retail) whilst Openreach supplies more than 1.3 million lines to customers via local loop unbundlers. Every one of these ten million connections brings revenues to BT.

[45002]

With the majority of people on broadband

I would be very interested as to where you get your information from.

BT have quoted that during January 2007 they passed the 10 million homes capable of broadband. That's CAPABLE of Broadband, NOT connected to Broadband.

Correction - BT announced that during the week commencing 1st Jan 07 they would connect their 10 millionth customer (according to both the BBC and Thinkbroadband). Reading the press release on the BT site also implies that it is connections rather than homes capable of connecting

The ten million wholesale connections are shared between BT Wholesale and Openreach. BT Wholesale supplies services to more than 8.7 million customers (via service providers including BT Retail) whilst Openreach supplies more than 1.3 million lines to customers via local loop unbundlers. Every one of these ten million connections brings revenues to BT.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/compute ... -bandwidth

MARTIN