FirstLoveMovies

How long do you keep a file shared?
I have a general rule when it reaches share ratio of 9.00 or more I remove it.
like
https://www.first-loves.com/forums/v ... s&start=10
has been shared over 12 times now, considering it's a 1.8 GB file, uhmm.... that's a lot of traffic.

your thoughts about this?

It depends what I am sharing
If the file have many sources then I am not seeding more than 1:1
But some rare stuff has been shared quite a long time
And some hardly to get stuff I have in my backup disc so I can return to sharing if needed

That applies both to torrents and emule in my case

And course nobody can shere everything forever to feed received and run folk

Hmmmm I am really sharing my whole movie collection (atm more than 700 files) all the time. For some strange reason I never have a long queue

oh wow

I don't base it on a share ratio but on whether it only has 1 source - me. With my bandwidth I try not to let my queue get over 50 or 60 or people wait forever. Right now I'm sharing about 550, with another 5000 that can be reshared if needed. Lots of discs too, but they're a pita to find stuff and hard drives are cheaper, even with double backups. This 4TB was about $85 US and it's nowhere near full.

ferdi111 wrote:It depends (...) And course nobody can shere everything forever to feed received and run folk

Same here! though, it seems ghost can do exactly that, I mean - wow!

Phuzzy4242 wrote:I don't base it on a share ratio but on whether it only has 1 source - me. With my bandwidth I try not to let my queue get over 50 or 60 or people wait forever. Right now I'm sharing about 550, with another 5000 that can be reshared if needed. Lots of discs too, but they're a pita to find stuff and hard drives are cheaper, even with double backups. This 4TB was about $85 US and it's nowhere near full.

Sounds like a wise thing to do phuz. Wow that's a lot of files! hmm maybe I have the same amount if I count the shorts too and the tv series too lol. I'm sharing about 20 most popular since I have a big headspace (upload speed) but what if share ratio is about 10 and you're not the only source but 1 of many? Unfortunately there's a lot of hit and run guys. If I know that something is rare I'll keep sharing it though, esp. the .aliptes rips. thanks for responding

May I ask a little question ? Why p2p (eMule in this case) was chosen as a mean of share, instead of other ways like, let's us say, torrents or direct download ?

Every optiom #emule, torrent, ddl hsd it's advantages and disadvantages
The main advantage for enule is probably possibility to share (fill requests) more discreetly without announcing it somewhere

It used to be (and still is for a lot of us) a bandwidth problem. If you don't have much, you won't burn it all up for the other guy. If it takes 4 HOURS at your full bandwidth to upload a file to a DD site, you probably won't do it, and a reshare just isn't going to happen. As pop mentioned, most downloaders only take, never contribute, and they'll NEVER make the effort to upload to a DD site. With eMule, that doesn't matter so much because while they're taking, they're also sharing, and a new file gets distributed faster.

Older files that don't have a lot of demand are transferred at a much slower pace, plus the uploader doesn't have to do a damn thing but use some hard drive space. Files tend to stay around a long long time - YEARS even - and reshares are as simple as copying the file to a folder and clicking the Reload button. If you have low bandwidth you can throttle eMule and use the internet even while up/downloading.

It's easy to find stuff you're interested in. My interests are varied, from the type of films we have here, to firearms, to literature, to how-to, to... you get the idea. eMule's search is pretty good and I've dug up lots I'd never have found otherwise, especially if you use NOT and AND to help weed out the inevitable porn.

Most DD sites require you to register and the owners almost always have a thousand advertisements to pay for it, not to mention the scripts running in the background to maybe infect your computer. The ads make every page take 5 minutes to load with my bandwidth and most of these sites require you to disable ad blockers and script blockers. I refuse to open my system up to attack. I've gone many many years without my PC getting infected, I'm not going to start now.

We've been using eMule for a long long time and it works well for us. Maybe things will change in the future, but for now this is an eMule board. Nothing's stopping people from using other methods, but until/unless a film is available on ed2k, it's simply not an FLM release.