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Apr. 30th, 2010 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkLOL, TheBox is apparently banning a whole slew of BT clients and reading the forum posts on this thing makes it seem like something worthy of a post on FandomWank. I feel like I'm actually watching it play out instead of coming to the party later on to read the descriptions of what happened.
Now I'm just watching to see how it plays out but what I got from it is that when an administrating body that is authoritative in nature decides to implement a change that the majority of its users dislike, they all get snarky and mean. And refuse to answer questions. And then users get even more snarky and mean and it all descends to "take it or leave it" which it was before all this happened anyway.
The main issue is downgrading, which understandably people don't want to do. And it has to do with banning all clients that they have not expressly approved, even if they haven't gone through the process of screening it to find it unacceptable. It affects me since I use an apparently banned version of uTorrent and need to downgrade. I won't. But that's because I don't really use TheBox all that much anymore. There are seriously not that many British TV shows I watch that I can't get elsewhere so I have my decent ratio, my small uploaded/downloaded numbers and I'm going to keep it like that for a while. It's not like it'll make a dent over there since I'm not downloading or seeding anything...
In the end, I'm just going to stay out of this. Saying anything would just be stupid, especially when dealing with the almighty mod species. One thing I will say about this is that it's absolutely alarming how Azureus/Vuze is getting attacked by pretty much all the private trackers. Some are saying they're going to ban that program altogether. As someone who used to use it, I find it very alarming. Seriously, is it that bad in recording your ratio properly?
Now I'm just watching to see how it plays out but what I got from it is that when an administrating body that is authoritative in nature decides to implement a change that the majority of its users dislike, they all get snarky and mean. And refuse to answer questions. And then users get even more snarky and mean and it all descends to "take it or leave it" which it was before all this happened anyway.
The main issue is downgrading, which understandably people don't want to do. And it has to do with banning all clients that they have not expressly approved, even if they haven't gone through the process of screening it to find it unacceptable. It affects me since I use an apparently banned version of uTorrent and need to downgrade. I won't. But that's because I don't really use TheBox all that much anymore. There are seriously not that many British TV shows I watch that I can't get elsewhere so I have my decent ratio, my small uploaded/downloaded numbers and I'm going to keep it like that for a while. It's not like it'll make a dent over there since I'm not downloading or seeding anything...
In the end, I'm just going to stay out of this. Saying anything would just be stupid, especially when dealing with the almighty mod species. One thing I will say about this is that it's absolutely alarming how Azureus/Vuze is getting attacked by pretty much all the private trackers. Some are saying they're going to ban that program altogether. As someone who used to use it, I find it very alarming. Seriously, is it that bad in recording your ratio properly?
