View Full Version : I need to stop downloading.
Im serious.
I've got so much material on my HDD that I don't even know what I've watched let alone where I got it from.
Please tell me I'm not the only one suffering from this incurable habit.
I try to go jogging at times, but it seems to me that the first thing that I do after I return home from work is turn on the damn thing, start up my client, cruise over to this place, and catch up on the latest gossip.
Only then do I actually go for a shower where I can actually get away from the internet, downloading, and every other pleasure known to humankind.
It seems that even after I load up my baby, I start playing games on my machine and try to beat my own highscores.
Downloading is one pastime that I do like, but it just seems to be getting the best of me. There's so much good stuff that I see that I download it for future viewing or even listening pleasure.
And even then, it just mounts up and up and up, till I don't even know what I've watched .....you get the picture.
Am I diseased somehow....???:biggrin::smile:
Am I the only one suffering from 'computer'itis' with it's tangential obbsession of 'download'itis'??
lol i download a lot of shit and dont watch it after too
I, too, suffer from this horrible affliction. Recently though, I was forced to go through and delete several hundred GBs due to lack of HDD space. A couple of weeks ago I bought a new HDD and it happened all other again. I now have a bunch of new games I'll never play, music and movies I will probably run through once and applications that I 'll never glance at again. Leeching is just too much fun. I've been like this for over a decade and old habits die hard. :tongue:
I guess you are not alone SealLion, I used to do this in the past, until my free space ended for good and burning things to DVD to never touch it again in the future seems a no go too. Jogging is good, I do it too. I could suggest maybe trying to go to watch this or that hyped movie in the theaters with family or friends could help keeping you away from the computer for some time. :biggrin:
Well i have this problem too.I have like 30 movies downloaded but since i am boored of watching movies and i am playing games right now those movies will stay there for 1 month minimum.That is, if i will even watch it.
You are not alone.
My annual data traffic dl+up is around 7 Tb, so all I can say:
delete.exe ownz ;)
External HDD costs 60 euros per 1 Tb, just get more and encrypt them oc.
anonymitis
01.11.09, 11:24
Same problem here.
serveral thousands of CD/DVD/BD filled, several TBs of hdd always full....
someone needs to find a cure ;(
Am I the only one suffering from 'computer'itis' with it's tangential obbsession of 'download'itis'??
Welcome to the " downers" club... don't worry you are not the only one :smile:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/630/downloadinga.jpg
hontoCorti
01.11.09, 13:08
I solved this problem by storing only valuable Appz, Games and burning them to RW media...
Once they are too old ill probably overwrite them:)
Movies get deleted right after they are watched and if i have no time to watch they get deleted also!
drinkingproblem
01.11.09, 13:19
First step is to admit that you have a problem :biggrin:
I used to be like that in the past, i downloaded everything that came out (for when i have time, i used to say)...
now i only download things for the day, watch/play and then delete
I used to leech all day like that, but not anymore. Now I mostly download things for my friends - who don't have an Internet connection or know what BitTorrent is at all - and music, which I listen to while I do my work.
Although I do keep the downloads folder from those "golden days", where uTorrent would be downloading all the new additions on Fulldls.com 24/7. Eventually the amount of free hard drive space became dangerously low, and thus I had to start recording a lot of that stuff to CDs and DVDs.
There's also this big list of movies yet to be watched on my S: drive... I only keep the good ones now, others are Shift+Del'ed after I finish watching them on my "MP5 Player".
Holy Frak!!
I actually thought that I was alone in the world on this thing.
Isn't there an official club of some sorts??
Other than the 'downers' club...like DA....you know...Downloaders Anonymous. LOL.
Preaching to the choir, im at university atm, and i go over the bandawidth cap every day.
similar situation here, although i didn't go for it 'all', but no matter how selective i get, there's still too much of it
next time you wanna download something ask yourself: do i really need that sh*te :wink:
Isn't there an official club of some sorts??
Other than the 'downers' club...like DA....you know...Downloaders Anonymous. LOL.
now that you've mentioned it, there are, but more general ones, like this:
"The Center for Online Addiction offers hope and valuable resources to those seeking treatment for Internet addiction. Internet addiction is a type of compulsive disorder and as an organization, we are specifically dedicated to helping people who suffer from this new form of addictive behavior."
# Cybersex/Cyberporn
# Online Affairs
# Online Gambling
# Online Gaming
# Compulsive Surfing
# eBay Addiction
http://www.netaddiction.com/
who goes first, any volunteers? :biggrin:
hey SeaLion,
here comes the doc :biggrin:,
got a solution for you.
install a "Bandwidth monitor program" and set like 20GB/month Alert,
after that use an internet speed limiting program to cut your internet speed to the half or quarter to punish yourself, so you'll think twice before downloading or not.
:top:
Sealion you could always try electro shock therapy as a cure lol
@cheatos and slikrapid: Firstly, I'm gonna ask around at the link and see if there's something for me there. LOL.
i THINK that cumpulsive surfing may fall into my catagory. LOL
also, I think that I do have a bandwidth control program and yes, I did install it last year. And did it ever control my bandwidth. I experiemented on a couple of things. One of them being my download client and it did work quite well.
I also gave it a try on Firefox and did the same as well.
I think that I got it as a crack. It's called Bandwidth Control Enterprise.
I'd hate to use that thing again. It controls it waaaay to much if the setttings aren't correctly done.
It's easy to use, ya. But I like strong and fast speeds while browsing.
I guess I'll try what I've tried before in the past.....to get myself to not download anything. Period. LOL.
I don't know about electro shock therapy.
That'lll hurt. .....OUCH!!!!!
Sealion you could always try electro shock therapy as a cure lol
I don't think that will work lol.Read all the comments and I can say I had the same problem.
Seal Lion it's simple.To forget about downloading you should do something else.I usually edit pictures with gimp/look for new SB-i avatars/look for new songs on grooveshark or reinforce my youtube anime collection(favorites I'm to lazy to make vids atm don't even know how lol)
yup.
your right.
Contributing time towards other things is more productive.
i'm downloading way too much pr0n :redface:
I'm with you
i Suffers from the same damn virus:biggrin:
computer becomes my world :shockkk!:
Master Razor
02.11.09, 22:18
I used to be like that too but I started thinking "There will always be new stuff to download. I can't have it all so..." I deleted everything. Based on the fact that hard drive will never be sufficient for anything wheather it's audio/video/games/images etc.
I always think of my hard drive as a "temporary" place to store the stuff I want and If there are items which i wanna keep, I just store them on to a dvd. So now, when i download a movie for ex and I don't watch it in the next day or so, i'll delete it and re-download it when I wanna see that again.
Well you can set a target and buy yourself 1 hdd a year or so. That should slow down your download thirst, if you reach your hdd capacity delete your older content and restrain yourself from buying a new hdd immediate till you reach your traget year :wink: I am a big fan of raw blue-ray content !! :eek3:
i'm downloading way too much pr0n
Lol..depends.How many gigs per day?
Newtons Laws of downloading.
1st law
" A torrent remains to be in a state of downloading or seeding unless the Hard Disk gets filled "
2nd law.
" Downloading is proportional to bandwidth.Greater the bandwidth, more is the urge to download.Lesser the bandwidth , lesser is the urge."
3rd Law.
"For every new tracker released , we have an equal number of Cheating techniques"
Daam i am good :klatsch_3:
Ohh learning Physics helps afterall :tongue:
@kelly: :biggrin::biggrin: and sooooo true :)
original 3 Newton's laws of motion:
# In the absence of force, a body either is at rest or moves in a straight line with constant speed.
# A body experiencing a force F experiences an acceleration a related to F by F = ma, where m is the mass of the body. Alternatively, force is proportional to the time derivative of momentum.
# Whenever a first body exerts a force F on a second body, the second body exerts a force −F on the first body. F and −F are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
Wannabe laws of torrenting:
In the absence of one downloader, a seeded torrent either is at rest or active by moving data towards another downloader in a packet by packet way with all available bandwidth
A torrent of a size S experiencing a download, experiences at least one average downloading speed v related to S by S = SUMM 0-i [v(i)*t(i)], where t is the total time the downloader was receiving data from uploader i. Alternatively, size S is equal or greater than data received from every other uploader of the same torrent. This law also applies if torrent is partially downloaded in which case S is replaced by Sp (partial size of the torrent)
Whenever a torrent exerts a download D upon the swarm, it receives an upload U from the swarm. The total D & U are equal in size and opposite in direction considering the downloader's connection to at least the first node
:eek13:
WTF.....???
That last one you gave slik I didn't understand at all.
WTF.....???
That last one you gave slik I didn't understand at all.
Even Newton would find it difficult i guess :tongue: (j/k)
Whenever a first body exerts a force F on a second body, the second body exerts a force −F on the first body. F and −F are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
Whenever a torrent exerts a download D upon the swarm, it receives an upload U from the swarm. The total D & U are equal in size and opposite in direction considering the downloader's connection to at least the first node
If i am able to decipher it correctly , then this is what it implies
First body=Torrent, Force=Download,Swarm=Second body :confused: :rolling_eyes:
Seriously that was a good one :smile:
WTF.....???
That last one you gave slik I didn't understand at all.
For every upload there's a download. If a seeder is moving data up, then a leecher is moving it down.
how cool is that.. applying the rules of physics to torrenting lol
I find myself download a lot of shit I won't even use
the problem is the size of your HDD .
Even Newton would find it difficult i guess :tongue: (j/k)
he's probably turning over in his grave now (or at least shook/flinched a bit) :wink:
Newton made 'em nice & simple, i had to improvise to make statements similar to his and yet keep 'em relatively valid
I have gone over my limit of 80GB at least 3 times in the past year... I need moreeeeeeeee
SealLion, you have got a illness that medicine couldn't find a solution for it. We call it sick of bandwidth. That is the funny post i see, ty. :D
nah you cant its fun think of all the cool things you can get your hand on:wink:and:eek3: watch it someday you know you cant resist the dark side:biggrin:
Maybe you need something like a dog collar that gives you a small shock everytime you go over a certain limit. Not really a collar but a bracelet. lol . But I see what you mean. I have so much music downloaded that it would take me months of continuous listening to go through it once. I guess when theres free stuff, you just wanna grab as much as you can. Plus it's nice to see those download speeds go higher and higher and you cant help keep checking it again and again. I'm afraid theres no cure. ur only limited by ur hdd space but i find myself deleting old unwatched stuff and donwloading moar. :tongue:
Ban yourself on all tracker then you'll have thing to download :lool::rolleyes2:
Maybe you need something like a dog collar that gives you a small shock everytime you go over a certain limit.
uTorrent 2.0 has a "Transfer Cap" feature, which works similarly :tongue:
I am also a Trance fan and as a Trance fan I try to keep up with all the latest releases from artists and DJs sets.
but that's impossible.
I got to a situation I have 50 GBs of music I haven't even listened to and need to determine if I like or not.
50 GBs assuming ALL of it is 320 web releases is 16 straight days of music (measured by time)
and I keep downloading every weekend more and more releases :(
I am hopeless..
Newtons Laws of downloading.
1st law
" A torrent remains to be in a state of downloading or seeding unless the Hard Disk gets filled "
2nd law.
" Downloading is proportional to bandwidth.Greater the bandwidth, more is the urge to download.Lesser the bandwidth , lesser is the urge."
3rd Law.
"For every new tracker released , we have an equal number of Cheating techniques"
Daam i am good :klatsch_3:
Ohh learning Physics helps afterall :tongue:
WOW!! :biggrin:
I think this is a conspiracy between Bittorrent sites and HD and CD/DVD sellers ,the more you download the more you buy ,
LOL! :biggrin:
Just Kidding
saebrtooth
21.02.10, 04:16
I got to a situation I have 50 GBs of music I haven't even listened to and need to determine if I like or not.
50 GBs assuming ALL of it is 320 web releases is 16 straight days of music (measured by time)
and I keep downloading every weekend more and more releases :(
I am hopeless..
Hopeless is not the right word to describe you. Typical is more like it. Its typeical of most BT, emule p2p fans.
Once you download the client ITS OVER!!!
The infection spreads fast to you and to everyone you convince to download :wink::shockkk!:
Don't worry guys..you usually get bored of downloading after a year or two of bittorrenting.
Hell no right now I'm actually seeding on IPT.:lool:
2MB/s.I'm awesome:cool2:
Hell no right now I'm actually seeding on IPT.:lool:
2MB/s.
Nothing to laugh about. I admire your decision. I'm seeding at IPT too even though my upload speed is 1/100th of yours.
Nothing to laugh about.I find that funny.
From a cheating bitch I became a seeder.:tongue:
saebrtooth
22.02.10, 08:41
yeah sure dude seeding at 2MB/s?
Im seeding at 2tb/s :biggrin:
He's talking about real upload...
If someone have a "DL" probleme - just buy yourself a small Hard Drive (120Gb). For me it works, havent this addiction. 120 Gb - enough for all uses (gaming, editing, programming, composing, etc.)
Don't worry guys..you usually get bored of downloading after a year or two of bittorrenting.
Hell no right now I'm actually seeding on IPT.:lool:
2MB/s.I'm awesome:cool2:
Hey SBfreak you can survive with that speed in many sites :tongue:
Hey SBfreak you can survive with that speed in many sites
So:naughty:?
So:naughty:?
If you still want to cheat let's trade Internet connections. :unsure:
If I didn't want to cheat I wouldn't be here in the first place..:sbi:
And no I won't trade Internet connections.:dry:
And no I won't trade Internet connections.:dry:
I had to try :dabs:
saebrtooth
25.02.10, 03:12
2mb real upoad? you must have a 4-5mb dl - yummmy me wants some :biggrin:
you must have a 4-5mb dl
It's indeed 5MB/s if it's the same one as when he tried that download accelerator Firefox addon. :eek:
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