You are entitled to your opinion, however this forum doesnt help with rampant downloading from strangers. Mentality is following policy of this forum. Dont flame someone for respecting and following it.
The policy isnt some kind of judgement on what others do, its following common sense and respect. Its easy to say "oh go ahead and just tell them how to d/l from a stranger, none of our business". Well, it IS our (our being
all IRC users) business when these users cause problems on the networks and servers we use. It IS our business when they they are infected and are infecting others. It IS our business when we're buried in spam from them. It IS our business when such behavior puts a negative impact on IRC.
Following your logic, no one should help with anything, because it
could be misused. The web abounds with crud, networks have kiddie porn channels, ppl who use IRC get led down the garden path by erstwhile romeos, ppl who IRC/IM get abducted, scripting can spam and infect. Infected files by email is horrendous. Sheesh, using your logic no one should be taught to drive cause they might use the car to run over someone or rob a bank or kidnap someone, ban all puters cause they can be used for evil, outlaw email.
Downloading from strangers is the direct cause of a lot of problems, there is no doubt about that. It isnt a maybe. This forum does not support or encourage it. That policy isnt acting as police or telling ppl what to do or not do, we have the right to choose to not help with something that is in the main illegal, against many AUPs and the cause of so much trouble.
"i also know that it was Khaled that added that feture in to mirc" It is also Khaled who said
http://www.mirc.com/khaled/faq.html :
Question: How do you feel about the fact that some people use mIRC to distribute copyright/illegal material? or to harm others?
"I'm not happy with the fact that some people use mIRC in a negative way, however mIRC is used by many people, there will always be a some people who use it in ways with which I don't agree."
