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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You are living in a world of your imagination.
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What he describes is common practice on top-end FTP sites. For every contribution you make, you are allowed to download something else, in a certain ratio.
The bigger the contribution, the higher the ratio to stimulate contribution. You can imagine that the ratio for programs such as Photoshop is higher than the ratio for contributing one ebook.
For example... You can download 2 books in return for providing 1 book, but you get 7 games for providing Photoshop.
These are the pirate websites par excellence. You only get in there if you're a top dog that can get his hands on very new, very big stuff, and very early. In the past, people working in stores would be in these ranks; the store often got games shipped a few days before release, so they'd open one, rip the CD/DVD for the FTP, and put the game back. Then, a no-CD patch and/or serial crack would be created.
In the Netherlands, there has been a huge hunt for these types of FTP's some years back.