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[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.

[_r.u.s.s.]

japo.. they meant he leeches reviews and archives from abandonia, not direct linking download links and our bandwidth

[Japo]

No, both. I thought the same when the topic started, but it appears he doesn't host the files. Like for example this explanation by Tom:

Originally Posted by Tom Henrik

Calling his ISP (or whatever it is called) also does not help, as he doesn't actually need bandwidth (due to him leeching bandwith of other sites) - so he can just register for a low cost domain and refer his site url anytime he want to, and continue to leech, steal and rob. :not_ok:

Or from Sebastianos:

Originally Posted by Romano

To follow up on the discusion - DO NOT CALL ESA ON THIS GUY!!! There's no legal grounds for them to act upon!

The thing is simple - he's not hosting any games, he's not putting them up and he's NOT DOING ANYTHING ILLEGAL! All that guy does is points to places where the games are. So the site hosting the game would get in trouble. That's like if ESA would shut down GOOGLE for showing you a link to a warez site after you've been trying to find it. So that guy is simply charging you so he'd find the links for you - he's payed for browsing, not distributing protected games. That's the main reason he could not have been shut down. For crying out loud - Czech laws have nothing to do with it as they had to sign to respect the international copyright agreements before they joined the EU. So he could be touched by the law if he was doing something illegal. He's just doing something unfair!To follow up on the discusion - DO NOT CALL ESA ON THIS GUY!!! There's no legal grounds for them to act upon! I guess this should be also mentioned in the open forum - so no one could try and contact ESA (like Tom said he did).

It's actually easy to check for sure, but you'd have to pay once to that rat.

[methuselah]

My first post in this thread came about when I tried to download "Darkseed 2", first using "cURL", then "Free Download Manager" -- which is a GUI download manager. "Free Download Manager" did no better than "cURL" -- both refusing to resume the download. Others might want to experiment with FDM and post their results in this forum.

I have now found one website, thus far, where I can get the "Darkseed 2" download using FDM. A username and password must be provided to initiate the download; FDM can be configured to handle this authorization automatically. So, there is at least one alternative if people are having problems resuming downloads here at "Abandonia."

[Japo]

This is just idle chatter anyway, since nobody here can provide an informed, definitive answer. This can be mentioned to Studentis so they give an answer in time--though it's not really prioritary, certainly not right now.

[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

japo.. they meant he leeches reviews and archives from abandonia, not direct linking download links and our bandwidth

Originally Posted by Japo

No, both. I thought the same when the topic started, but it appears he doesn't host the files. Like for example this explanation by Tom

he didn't from abandonia because abandonia had good system=P

[Peter]

No matter how good the programmer is there is always the possiblity of mistakes. So I hope studentis can fix the security issue as the system worked pretty well. I don't think the download system is as complex as the site, so it might be pretty easy for them

Japo, maybe the system was introduced to prevent those leechers

[ComboTroop]

Wait! I have one thing to say, cause you all talking about Internet!

Lol, Internet

[Titan]

If we (the crew) gets our wishes, we'll have a torrent-server in the future... That should solve ANY problems with resuming.

[Japo]

Originally Posted by Peter

Japo, maybe the system was introduced to prevent those leechers

If you mean the new system that prevents cURL from working, that was precisely my assumption.

Originally Posted by Titan

If we (the crew) gets our wishes, we'll have a torrent-server in the future... That should solve ANY problems with resuming.

Swell. But I think AB's big server should still be used to seed, so less popular downloads aren't dependent on users.