Re: Upload sites
Originally Posted by
Lifthrasir
Thanks for the info makanyane.
Another question but may be not in the right place: what about the use of torrents? I know they have also a bad reputation but actually their principle isn't bad as long people seed and don't use them for illegal purposes.
There is nothing wrong with torrents (don't know how often I have responded to this question). They do have a bad reputation however due to being nearly exclusively used to upload pirated software which often has a virus in the necessary crack (there is no such thing as 'safe' pirated software).
Often people also do not understand the principle of torrents, eg that you first download a file containing the info about the download - this is the actual torrent file which requires hosting on a website. Obtaining that file from a website that does not have strict controls is akin to Russian roulette. The actual game files are 'hosted in the cloud' and cannot be altered without disabling the hash check of the torrent file.
Note: it is possible to 'fix' regular downloads via torrents if the files are identical, eliminating time consuming re-downloads - helped that way with the PDeR download a while back.
Personally I use torrents for 6 of my mods and the torrent files are safely hosted here on TWC - torrents eliminate download errors and allow users with a low bandwidth to avoid time out restrictions of most 'regular' hosting sites.
Originally Posted by
Lifthrasir
May be but all the sites you have mentioned are currently listed in
the Wiki, section "General purpose Upload Sites". Hence my question: why listing these sites and not Mega?
At least on Mega, there's no adds, no pop-up windows, no cookies, etc...
I am not sure of the particular reason why it isn't listed but I suspect it's because it is one of a number of 'regular' download sites are blocked in various countries (mega is in mine) because they do not 'vet' their downloads for copy right violations. Vetting is certainly done: I had a download of mine removed from Mediafire because it contained the word 'Westeros'. For a long time that was the official download for the mod (version 0.54?) of the same name here and it's removal was highly annoying but confirmed that media fire were dong 'their thing'.
Last edited by Gigantus; May 12, 2017 at 11:04 PM.