No, it has not become 'too political'. People are observing forum rules. People are more and more using mIRC as a file trading program and a lot of people have felt it has got 'out of control' as every day we get another 2-3 threads about it, and therefore, people who are against illegal file sharing are more sensitive now about the topic than they perhaps have been before.
mIRC can be used for filesharing. The ability and commands are there.
As has been said time and time again, mIRC has a file server, mIRC supports the DCC protocol easily and allows files to be traded, and this option is very unlikely to be removed in the future as sharing files IS a part of communication. There are people who log on to IRC however, and expect to see (automatically) easy triggers to get files, because they believe mIRC is purely a p2p program for file sharing. These people a lot of the time use XDCC and think this forum is here for helping with such a purpose. Again, this adds to people's strong feelings about the topic.
What needs to be remembered is the DCC protocol was not and is not designed for such a purpose (i.e. heavy loads) and nor was the mIRC FServe, and, as far as I know, XDCC does not take advantage of this anyway. What's more, IRC is a
Chat protocol and we
are sticking with that view
- The 'you-know-which' thread states that we do not help with illegal file sharing or warez. Obviously this can be slightly ambiguous in certain people's questions, but common sense is expected.
What people do with it however, is not our problem.
What people do with mIRC
is our problem as we're not here to help others be abusive, contribute to a bad reputation of mIRC or cause annoyance to other people. For example, we don't help with ban evading either, but taking the idea that 'mIRC users can do what they like with it' means we would.
We ALL know this is a sensitive topic, and I don't want to see this turn into yet another "I will help with this regardless of what others say" arrogant thread, nor a huge discussion.
As a sidenote, I'm not having a go at you KT, but just as a general comment about the issue in overall.
Regards,
