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• thespirithotel on thu, 18 oct 2007 23:05

  Old habits die hard / people who don't know any better that have their music folder shared is my vote.
  
  p.s. You should say that the "e-mail" field is required!

• Jose Marques on fri, 19 oct 2007 03:47

  Yeah, I'd say old habits die hard, it's just too much work filling out the information in the form...

• andr3 on fri, 19 oct 2007 07:45

  @thespirithotel: that would be true if this was emule/edonkey/kazaa/etc. In torrents someone has to go through the trouble of creating the torrent and upload it to the tracker. Then everyone in there needs to download the .torrent! There's an explicit will for downloading the album via torrents.
  (Oh! Sorry. Or maybe make it NOT required. I'll look into that, I promise.)
  
  @José: Oh, I was thinking about that too. I agree, but I think it falls under a different category: laziness. hehe

• meechwings on sat, 20 oct 2007 00:38

  OK, so I'm not a huge BitTorrent user, so I could be completely off base here, but when you download something from BitTorrent, don't you automatically share it?
  

• andr3 on sat, 20 oct 2007 06:02

  When your download ends, you become a seeder, which is someone who has the full file and is only sharing. That's until either you close that transfer or your bittorrent application. But most people I know download the file, leave it on for a while and then turn it off.
  
  The astonishing thing here is that so many people even downloaded the thing in the first place.

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