'The most mature' - hmmm, not sure on that one BB.
Personally I think everyone who registers should pay £1/pcm membership. What's that, £20k a month with £100 going to running of site/server costs etc and the rest going to AA or something!? Who in their right mind could argue with that, non-profit making etc!?!?
The layouts / roms are available here in a managed and controlled fashion. People will always share via p2p, bit torrent etc, and no one can stop that. But to download the files without the intro, author's notes, wip thread etc is only half the story for me.
Madman - 2 points mate:
If you use some punctuation your posts become much easier to read.
Secondly, no-one's claiming morale high ground I don't think on the (non) distrubution of their layouts. It comes down to goodwill imo. If an author doesn't want their stuff packaged in this way it would be courteous to respect that. However, they have posted the layout on the www, not the most private of distribution methods known to mankind, so another train of thought says tough titties.
Yep, the punctuation could be a lot better. Working on a pc all day i get very lazy on my own computer, because i can,t be arsed when i get home. but hey, its across eventually. I hope. LOL
There are a lot of opinions that have been aired on the thread, some positive and not so. the original question was the possibility of releasing the layouts via bittorrent. which is a viable large file transfer method...also used for streaming radio (non pirate), and soon to be used by file planet and other legal organisations.unfortunately it is also associated with piracy. but the good old http, internet has been transfering ilegal files since day dot.. i can go to a number of web sites and gain ilegal software/games ect without file sharing, granted i am not getting access to 3 gig files but none the less i can get without using file sharing programs. plus what we want to release is already here AND AVAILABLE. i can,t see the problem.even it pops its ugly head onto suprnova. they gotta register for it. and i would introduce a 5 minimum post before being able to connect to tracker..which is possible...
with a 24 hour registration wait. some of the main sites use this method to deter hit and runners.basically it stops the people who just download for the sake of it. if they want it they gotta post then wait 24 hours before they allowed on the tracker.
all docs and readmes would be posted with the torrent as well.
with the emu available here and roms from here...so LAYOUTS only.
the layouts with the roms are useless.....is that a better solution....
