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I think he means that the link to the file is not intended to be public but restricted to your contacts only. People might use it as a sharing platform if they
by fataliss 12y ago
I think he means that the link to the file is not intended to be public but restricted to your contacts only. People might use it as a sharing platform if they want to tho, I don't see what could prevent them to do so and that's why I asked the question in the first place. I'm sure that A sending a pirated file to B won't have a huge legal impact. But if A put this link on a forum and 5000 B's are accessing it... I think you should enforce some kind of download throttling to limit the access to the files. Or figure out something! I really do hope only right minded people will use it for noble purposes but come on, we both know that if your tool get some traction (and it looks really good so I dont see why it shouldn't) people will start messing with it and you won't be able to handle all the delete requests yourself!
- oron 12y agoGreat idea, and it's pretty easy to do, X downloads max per file or X number of ips per file etc. This is really aimed at private 1-1 sharing.
- fataliss 12y agoYeah, that's what I figured. You probably don't want to throttle it too bad in case the same person got multiple computers (diff Ip's), but I think that something between a 100 and a 1000 could hit the right spot. And then depending on the feedback you get, you can work on implementing some better filtering. But at least it should dissuade people from making your tool the next megaupload :) I'd also work on throttling uploads of the same file, cause if you have a 100 DL limit per file then one can simply upload its file a thousand times and it will A) take a lot of space on your servers B) still be a pirate/sharing issue. Good luck and keep up the good work! :)