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Originally Posted by raymor
Certainly you can do a lot by thinking along those lines when it comes to worst site rippers,
and as you know Strongbox has some built in protections against those kinds of rippers and
features that you can activate apart from actual limits. Those do certainly help.
Coming from a security background, I always prefer multiple layers, so if a site ripper gets
past my first line of defense I have a second, detecting and stopping gross abuse, then a
third is properly done watermarks so at least when they share it I get some marketing
benefit from it.
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Download managers are common amongst our members. If we disallow them we'd lose a decent percentage of our members. That's not something I'm interested in. We've talked to these people. Some are on trial and ripping the site but many are real customers who are used to using download managers to make their lives easier. I would never implement any sort of bw limit. It just doesn't make sense. There are so many other solutions.
In my opinion it comes down to one question. Do you mind how much someone can download on your site in one day. I personally do not mind. They paid. They can download the entire site if they want. So based on that mindset I don't set bw limits. And we've worked hard to find other ways to prevent people from hogging server resources or trying to download 2,000,000 files at once ;)