I disagree with most of your arguments, CrucifynDi3.
My internet connection is a very average one, 4.6Mbit/448Kbit. As you can see with this kind of internet connection its fairly easy to reach its maximum capacity with any form of downloading. With most of my torrents I get 90-100% of my line speed, being 440-500 KByte/sec. So as you can see - though there are always exceptions to the rule - torrents don't have to suck and you (or do I mean "I"?) don't have to spend money on a private tracker there. And if I do get a slow speed I'll already start my next download, problem fixed, no time lost.
The usenet service offered by my ISP is obviously not free as in "free low budget shit". They simply buy it from another company and include it into their internet package. In effect I get the same usenet service as if I were to buy it from anywhere else. And again, the download speed is good. Meaning i download at what my connection can offer (490 - 500 KByte/sec) and yes *surprise surprise* high retention. Again no need to spend money.
RS/MU offers me a shitload of waiting and speeds of up to 200 KByte/sec as a free user. It is clearly a worse than my previous 2 mentioned points. Why would I spend an X amount of money on them only to get the same results as with torrents/usenet (remember my connection speed?). On top of that there is the frustration of links/parts. There's enough of them to fill bibles with it and stack them to the moon and back again. Not to mention dead/deleted links and all the phishing and cracking on these types of services. And the most important part i think personally is the fact that they know well enough that their business is warez. There used to be this unwritten rule in the warez scene that went a little like "you shall not make money off of warez and you shall not sell it". But no one has heard of that nowadays.
What type of FTP? The type that has a sticker of the Turtles on it ofcourse 8-)... No, I did mean the free ones, the type that pops up in FTP search engines. While most of the time speed is not that great there is a simple solution for that. Its called multi tasking. Download 4 items at once and voila, you (I) get the full 4.6Mbit again. On top of that I've written a private Copernic type of tool to easily search all major FTP search engines. Its the Google of the FTP world. And you know how people always say Google It if you can't find it right *hint*? :whistle:
And what I am saying is: think again. Free =/= shit. What is shit however is being ignorant. Wake up from the dream the wMafia (RS) has pulled over your eyes. It was perfectly possible to play Captain Hook before RS/MU came about and it still is. Different boat, same seas. Arrr >_>
Edit: since this text is long: Copyright 2009 - Hyperz. XD
I'm gonna use it in my future book. Called The Holy Wible.
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