You should wake up and realize that you are in the past. mIRC is being used for everything. You cant do anything about it either. Quit your complaining. Get over it. You can't stop it. 98% of newbies download mIRC to fileshare. And I'll guess maybe more than 50% of them pay and register. I'll bet Khaled Mardam-Bey is just tickled to death to get that money owed to him. I'll bet he isn't sitting around complaining about people sharing files. He's happy he's getting a check.
That's why your [deleted by moderator]. Great, you can post a reply to a newbie helping them out getting started. That's great. Kudos for you. But you can't help out someone in need of an actual problem consisting of filesharing that 90 ***** 9 percent of the people using mIRC are doing. I don't care if you know 10,000 people that only chat on mIRC. There are millions and millions and millions of other people that are downloading, sharing, and are just there to p**s you off.
No i'm not living in the past. I realize that you can do just about everything now compared to many years ago when IRC became available. Which includes
illegal filesharing. Now I as an individual cannot stop it, but I can contribute my full support to slow down any filesharing across the IRC community. And I hope everyone who agrees with my point of views also contributes their support as well. There is a time and a place for those activities but IRC should not be one of those places. But thats just my personal view on that particular topic.
Now onto the insulting...
Wow did you think of all of those four-letter words all by yourself?...Or did you need the assistance of a 8 year old to come up with those witty insults? Do you have any concrete proof of your actual "percentage"? I highly doubt that 99% of mIRC users engage in filesharing...maybe 33.3% is more believeable. I could care less if people download to piss me off. They don't know me so I shouldn't give a flying f*** what they think.
Resorting to namecalling on this message board won't be tolerated (the deletion of your insults should have been a dead giveaway) that will not get you an answer to your problem any quicker if at all. I for one hope you receive a virus/trojan that completely trashes your hard drive just so you become educated as to why we have our opinions on filesharing. We often have to remind new users of the risks of illegal filesharing hoping they take that into consideration when the thought crosses their minds.
Yes some disregard our advice and do it anyways, and some decide to take our advice and not do so. I just hope many users decide to go the "right" way and use mIRC for its intended purpose which is
chatting. I have stated before that I do hope the networks across IRC would tackle the filesharing issue and not allow those particular channels on their servers, to not only cut down on illegal fileswapping but also cut down the chances of users getting viruses/trojans in the process. Again this is just my opinion.
Would networks suffer in numbers if they actually did "outlaw" fileswapping on their servers? Yes of course they would. But also there are over 400 different networks to chat on. It would not be the "end of the world" if networks "outlawed" filesharing...there are other ways for users to "steal" from the media if thats what you want to do...my views are just only a hope that one day IRC would be "Crap free" and by that meaningless channels that condone fileswapping.
Again, this message board will probably not help you, considering what you want help with and your attitude toward not only myself but other members of this board.
*NOTE: Most of the above issues within this post are of my personal opinions and noone elses.
