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Caedes Torrent

Temujin_12
11/27/06 3:21 AM GMT
This has been my favorite art site for years now. I love coming back and browsing the latest photos/images. I was wondering if there is a Caedes torrent file available to download ALL of the images (versus painstakingly downloading them one by one). If not, what are people's thoughts about creating one?
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11/27/06 3:41 AM GMT
This has been brought up before... the short answer is that this is supposed to be a community and not merely a resource for people to download pictures. Artists upload their images because they want people to give them feedback and allowing you to download their image without even knowing anything about who made it would defeat this purpose. Plus there are over 50,000 images on the site; are there really that many people who would want to download them all and sort through them on their hard drive when they are already categorized by date, author, rating, gallery etc. on the site?

OK that wasn't so short...
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::third_eye
11/27/06 4:21 AM GMT
whew, i'd hate to have to read the long answer ....
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lately, i've fallen horribly behind in my thanks and comments. I'll catch up, but until I do, please know all your kind words are greatly appreciated.
.noahnott
11/27/06 6:00 AM GMT
Here it is:

Chapter 1

In the recent years, the spread of knowledge has increased by a considerable amount. From caveman paintings, stone tablets, word of the mouth, etc etc, to the modern day internet, the most superior method of rapid information exchange. Caedes, wrapped up in the mess, lost in this web of confusion, a source where caedesians (ppl with no life) gather and share random works of art, is, yes, a place where information is also exchanged.

Yes third eye, this is chapter one of the long random spew of gibberish, but i shall continue. But as we all gather around the discussion boards waiting for something to happen on the left side of the screen, just under the word, "Jobs"...yes we wait some more...and maybe a little more. We see a "Subscriptions (1)" show up, we burst out in cheers...actually cheer...and rush to see the comment. Aww, but this time it's only in the User Info gallery, so we go back to waiting....days pass....and weee! Another commment, it's on your latest image.

That random person you just recived a comment from half way across the globe says, "Wow, fascinating," and you give out another cry of joy, even though you yourself know that your latest upload was a piece of *cough*.

Now moving on, as we know this is why some people stay on caedes for an eternity, that is why you are reading this, but you shouldent be reading this terrible english document sort of thing, but you are, which is what i find funny.

Chapter 2

So here comes bit torrent, limewire, that magical zip, rar, etc file...this newb comes along, presses it, and WOWWEE! I have a massive library of useless images. So the newb/noob/noobie thinks to theirself:

A) Where in the world am I going to store the 100gb of files?
B) How am i going to sort through them all?
C) How much slower will my computer run?
D) What about updates?
E) and the list continues.

...but i cant talk anymore, may my story continue, later, sometime, maybe perhaps...

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.noahnott
11/27/06 6:07 AM GMT
So...as noobs, and other people come along and download all the images they want, most likely those noobs wont comment ont he images so the newer images are left in the dust and everything is uncommented. So why should people post if no new members are leaving comments or joining caedes? Etc etc, the list goes on, i really dont want to point out the obvious.

But the add to the points of why a download of all the image files is bad, the increase in stolen copyrighted images will increase dramatically. Yeah, those russian sites + filckerie will just love it when they can add to their slow, prehistoric FTP a long list of files..WOWEE will they get a load of that.

On the other hand, would they really do that? Probably not the whole library. The costs to keep the server up would be impossible to cope with...yes...impossilble. Where would they get the money to keep the server running? Ad's wont cut it. They will have to filter out the bad images, so why wont they just go through the caedes gallery like they did b4 the zip file and save all that download time?...oh wait a second, the download time would be slower the 'old fashion way', so nvm about that...forget what i just wrote.

So then why would people go to their site, where they dont get comments (or any more than caedes that is), plus have a smaller selection? "Oh oh! I know." ..that's b/c they wont. They come back to caedes.

Chapter 3

Doesnt exist...

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