More Emule Screenies! Major Bible shipments to Iran! Lots of 80s DVDs (or DSRs) for me!
International Diversity! Spain (Western Europe), Dominican Republic (Central America), Brazil (South America), Indonesia (Southeast Asia), and Russia (North Asia)! All active uploads are for PermaShares and 5 of 6 are for PowerShares. This screenie was taken on 2006-06-22, when I was downloading BBC’s ‘Walking with Cavemen’, ‘Walking with Beasts’, ‘Chased by Sea Monsters’, and ‘Amazing Earth’ (Discovery Channel).
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Never seen a Lebanese before! Israel and Lebanon are at war now… I want Israeli Emule presence to stay and I want Lebanon’s presence to grow! Screw the war (and any associated secrecy and trade restriction laws)! Also, the only ‘Not applicable’ country flags that I see are of biblical material. These users are smuggling bibles right underneath their tyrant dictator’s noses! It it is probably personal (hopefully) rather than organized ‘crime’. All active uploads are for PermaShares and 5 of 6 are for PowerShares.
Some Category changes are reflected to accommodate my increase in downloading DVDs. The screenshot was taken on 2006-07-06, when I was currently downloading SpaceCamp, IMAX ‘Dream is alive’, and NeverEnding Story. Flight of the Navigator, Explorers and IMAX ‘Blue Planet’ have recently finished. All the Movies including the IMAXs are 80’s. I didn’t know Navigator, SpaceCamp, and Explorers were on DVD. They may not be on DVD. They could be DSRs (Digital Signal Rips) or TIVO-rips (Record-to-VCR with a PC’s TV-In as the ‘VCR’) or Sat-Rips (Satellite Receiver TV-Out Plugged to PC). I also have a paused download, ‘The Wizard’ which I know has never been released on DVD. I don’t know when I’m going to start it though.
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An Iranian downloading Tyndale’s Dramatized NLT Bible on CD – Old Testament. The Old and New testament will fit a single DVD+R wit 50 megs to spare, un-rarred! Need that for some good smuggling – not too bulky, and easy to make more if one happens to get one confiscated without also being jailed, killed, or tortured, depending on availability of blank DVD media. I think Bibles have the same legality in Iran as Heroin or pedoporn / kiddy porn / child porn or cocaine or ak-47s do in America. Also got 3 Brazilians in active upload slots downloading Area 51 pics, Lejendary Journeys RPG book, and Neverending Story DVD. Same downloads as above picture, but a little later in time. 4 of 6 active uploads are for PermaShares and 2 of 6 are for PowerShares. It was taken on 2006-07-08 with the same downloads active.
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The Iranian is still here! Still downloading the Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament. Defying the great Islamic theocracy (I wouldn’t want a theocratic or fundamentalist goverment of any religion)! All active uploads are for PermaShares. 3 of 6 are for PowerShares. The screenshot was taken The screenshot was taken on 2006-07-09. I started up downloads for Willow (late 80s), 2010 (mid 80s), and Total Recall (Early 90s) after SpaceCamp and NeverEnding Story Finished.
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Verizon Wireless’s Traffic Shaping cuts out for about 20 seconds! It seems to have occurred on one of the active .pdf downloads for ‘GRR – Races of Renown – Drow’. With the way the shaping is set up right now, it is actually good for the network because the shaping keeps it down to NationalAccess bandwidth limits (144kbps up/down), which is synchronous and prevents leeching! There was a time when the traffic shaping wasn’t there at all and I was hitting my 3:1 zzRatio sometimes. BroadBandAccess will get you up to 800kbps of sustained download speeds if its from the web and not filesharing! The ability to run Filesharing reliably on a CellPhone Modem (Especially on off-peak hours) signifies their quality of service! So go to Verizon Wireless and get some broadband for yourself (ISDN-like semi-broadband for Emule)! Especially if you are not in a broadband-enabled area!.
All Active upload slots are for PermaShares and 4 of 6 are for PowerShares. This screenie is reflecting a bit of international diversity also — Iran, India, USA, Israel, Romania, and Belgium. In this screenie, I am current downloading a large number or WOTC and third-party Dungeons and Dragons (D20 / D&D) RPG-books. It was taken on 2006-07-16.
Also, the same Iranian that was downloading the Tyndale Dramatized NLT OT is now downloading the Haah Bible Commentary. It happens to be a PowerShare. 112MB in upload transfer to this Iranian and Counting. And I don’t give a damn (Iran is under US export embargo I think) either!. 90% of all Emule users use the Vanilla Official Emule client and that means that 90 or more percent of Emule users could be sending stuff to countries on the USA’s hate-list and not even know it! This is particularly true if you are sharing or downloading academic, political, or religious material. Transfer rate is pretty decent too. Much have access to contraband bandwidth from China or Russia. There must be a significant illegal (in Iran) Christian worship organization there. Free stuff aplenty on Emule! And often, the only place to get it outside of USA, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, or Australia!.
