Virus opened this issue on Apr 27, 2000 ยท 52 posts
jschoen posted Thu, 27 April 2000 at 8:54 PM
Ok, My 2 cents: There will always be someone out there trying to get something for nothing and try to ileagally make a profit. Even if this A-Hole stops, there's someone waiting in the wings to take their place. Our best defense is awarness. We caught this guy (hopfully in time) through someone happening onto the site. I know we all cruise thousands of sites, and make it hard for people like this to get away with it. But I strongly agree that closing down a site because of this seems very counter productive. The've already stolen what they wanted and were caught. If we give into terrorism or the thought of terrorism we might as well just take all the sites down.Password protecting/members only downloads I still think is a good solution. Becoming a member you must agree to the terms and conditions. Or even going a little further and doing it similar to e-commerce site, with $0.00 for the price but giving a record of who downloaded what. Just a thought. James