What's TA's thoughts on FTP sharing?

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Posted by Night_Plague on Jul-05-2002 16:31:

What's TA's thoughts on FTP sharing?

I tried searching through past threads for info on this, but was unable to come up with anything. I'm wondering what the webmaster/you feel towards FTP's? I personally run a 70 Gig mostly electronic FTP with roughly 6,000 mp3s and would be more then glad to share it with you guys/gals. I'm not sure if this is allowed but perhaps you could give me the ok and I'll post the info. Thanks

Posted by Swamper on Jul-05-2002 20:33:

Only if you can guarantee you have no albums on there... and that it's ratio free so anybody can access it..

...but I dunno if you'd want to get into that predicament...

Posted by ali92 on Jul-05-2002 21:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
Only if you can guarantee you have no albums on there... and that it's ratio free so anybody can access it..

...but I dunno if you'd want to get into that predicament...

What about CUE files and tracklistings?

Posted by Nadi on Jul-06-2002 04:00:

swamper cant you just let him advertise it maybe make it a sticky or something but add a little something like "Not sponsored by or affiliated with ta.com" and then let him put albums or whatnot?

Posted by QuickStep on Jul-06-2002 04:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Nadi
swamper cant you just let him advertise it maybe make it a sticky or something but add a little something like "Not sponsored by or affiliated with ta.com" and then let him put albums or whatnot?

That's like getting caught shop lifting and saying that you stole it from a different store. You best bet is to either ask people for a PM about you FTP, or get on a chat and spread it there.

But I think Swamper was trying to warn you about giving out an FTP on this site, since we have alot of trolls. You'll more then likely exceed your bandwidth in a week, or get files deleted. Good luck and thanks for sharing too!

PAyce

Posted by igottaknow on Jul-06-2002 04:53:

I've thought about sharing my stuff on ftp but there are too many problems:

1. Bandwidth (for cable or dsl you'll run out of bandwidth pretty quick).

2. Your ISP usually has the right to terminate your account for wide variety of reasons, so if you don't have a backup ISP, think twice about it, otherwise you could be left without any internet connection.

3. Hackers can break in and destroy you system if you dont have a good security setup. Remember that ftp user/password are sent as clear text (unencrypted) and can be easily intercepted and read.

For these and other reasons I only share ftp with friends.