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[dosraider]

Originally Posted by TotalAnarchy

I don't think it's smart to use dial-up in this day and age, but maybe that's just me.

Unless you tell me good reasons why should we make a concession and not you, I'll treat this as a joke.

Believe it or not, some regions only have dial up available.
If that's the case here, I don't know, and I'm certainly to lazy (as usual) to look it up.
Even don't know for sure if the location of methuselah is the real one, but a mod/admin(?) should be able to do a IP check and check those stated facts.

Anyway, whatever, dial up sux big.

[_r.u.s.s.]

i thought the old file leech protection system that data made nicely worked. why changing it? poor people on dial up

[arete]

Data's programming skills put everyone to shame. Whatever he did, we should keep it.

[Japo]

Actually, the previous system did allow server leeching, which was actually done regularly, notoriously by free-game-downloads.mosw.com:

http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=13204

I'd love that slow connection users could be accomodated in as many ways as possible, but my first intuition is that making download URLs not to expire is inherently a vulnerability. I can't see a way to accomplish both things. I'm no expert either so I may be wrong.

If there is a way that users of slow connections could be allowed to do interrupted downloads, it would be by using a download manager that doesn't depend on the direct URL to persist, and at least let you enter new URLs manually for the same file. Surely that's perfectly possible.