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Competition forces rules to be born. Not just competition for prestige, a competition for access.

Topsites are fuelled by racers. These are the couriers, who transfer data between multiple topsites they have access to. All topsites have a multiplier. For every 1MB you upload, you can download ~3MB. If you don't each a quota or are not in the top ~15 racers by the end of the week your access will be revoked.

With access comes prestige, ability to race to other topsites, contacts, and leech access to the topsite. These things are many terabytes big and can have archives in excess of 60TB. A huge repository of constantly refreshing and up to date material.

Without rules this would become a free-for-all, with poor quality. That's no good for anyone.



They still using pftp these days?


Yes. pftp is the tool of choice for couriers still.. albeit they hardly resemble the original source.



No one uses drftpd except for rented sites. They all use glftpd, still.. sigh.




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