I need to stop downloading.

[SealLion]

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....???

Am I the only one suffering from 'computer'itis' with it's tangential obbsession of 'download'itis'??

[badazz]

lol i download a lot of shit and dont watch it after too

[anonftw]

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.

[alpacino]

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.

[Mihai]

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.

[groovesan]

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]

Same problem here.

serveral thousands of CD/DVD/BD filled, several TBs of hdd always full....

someone needs to find a cure ;(

[kelly]

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

[hontoCorti]

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]

First step is to admit that you have a problem

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

[anon]

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".

[SealLion]

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.

[anc3s]

Preaching to the choir, im at university atm, and i go over the bandawidth cap every day.

[slikrapid]

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

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?

[cheatos]

hey SeaLion,
here comes the doc ,

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.