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These things can be agonisingly slow- a popular clip can mean 100 downloads at any one time. The download will take place at the upload speed of the host (usually 50% of his download speed) and this capacity is split between all the users.

So someone with an average broadband connection of 512 kb per second will have an upload of 256 kb per second. If only 10 people want to download the clip that means they will each only get 25kb per second, which is around 3 kilobytes per second- much slower than a dial up connection to a proper server. A reasonable sized stills picture would take over a minute to download- a popular movie clip could take hours and hours.

As all webmasters know, there are some pretty mean people out there (the average forum visitor doesn't realise) who take great delight in screwing things up for everyone- we've even had trolls and trouble makers on this forum.

Throwing your computer open to these people would be crazy!

Vistors to the forum might be complacent in thinking that the wetlook community only extends to about 50 to 100 people who seem to post on this forum- but there are several thousand who you never see or hear of- but who devour any free material like a plague of locusts! A small number within this group are malicious and would love to create havoc witin this community- I certainly wouldn't allow access to my computer to some of these people.

Judging by the quantity of the hacking, cracking, DOS attacks we get plus the volume of virus contaminated emails that come through- it would be a dangerous route to follow unless you were a real expert in computing.

At the end of the day, the company who are putting this together are providing nothing- they use other peoples material, other peoples computers and other peoples bandwidth and then "piggyback" advertising onto what you download to provide an income for themselves.