Good question BlastGT1, long time no see BTW.
I have no loyalties to torrenting. As some of you may know, I started long long ago on BBS systems and dial-up. That morphed into serving in AOL chatrooms, Mass Mailing "warez" eventually leading to IRC and FTP. While I played with napster a little bit, a couple years before it's conception, a piece of software came out called Hotline, and my love affair with BBS style server/client software began. A couple of years of Hotline led me to KDX, where I still run a private server today. I came to the private torrent world thanks to an invite to OiNK! from the same person who introduced me to Hotline and KDX both.
As BBS software isn't really made anymore, at least not the software I am familiar with, most of the software being used for BSS style server and client applications is extremely outdated, with poor security if any and downloading from them is dependent on the server having a top notch connection. I have done all these things, and kept content alive (my oldest content comes from 1995 warez groups) because I believe that it is important for media and art to be archived. I believe that TV and Motion Pictures are an integral part of western culture, and nobody should be kept out of their local culture simply because they can't afford to participate. So I archive, and download, and make available any content I can. When something like the anti-south shame washing in America presently, and they quit airing shows like Gone with the Wind and Dukes of Hazard, I feel exonerated in my actions.
For me, torrents allow me to archive more efficiently than any other current method I know, but I would be happy to get away from torrents considering their popularity, if there was any other system that came close.
I have no loyalties to torrenting. As some of you may know, I started long long ago on BBS systems and dial-up. That morphed into serving in AOL chatrooms, Mass Mailing "warez" eventually leading to IRC and FTP. While I played with napster a little bit, a couple years before it's conception, a piece of software came out called Hotline, and my love affair with BBS style server/client software began. A couple of years of Hotline led me to KDX, where I still run a private server today. I came to the private torrent world thanks to an invite to OiNK! from the same person who introduced me to Hotline and KDX both.
As BBS software isn't really made anymore, at least not the software I am familiar with, most of the software being used for BSS style server and client applications is extremely outdated, with poor security if any and downloading from them is dependent on the server having a top notch connection. I have done all these things, and kept content alive (my oldest content comes from 1995 warez groups) because I believe that it is important for media and art to be archived. I believe that TV and Motion Pictures are an integral part of western culture, and nobody should be kept out of their local culture simply because they can't afford to participate. So I archive, and download, and make available any content I can. When something like the anti-south shame washing in America presently, and they quit airing shows like Gone with the Wind and Dukes of Hazard, I feel exonerated in my actions.
For me, torrents allow me to archive more efficiently than any other current method I know, but I would be happy to get away from torrents considering their popularity, if there was any other system that came close.