UPDATE: When prompted to download the Anti-Leech Plugin, DO NOT CHOOSE NETPUMPER. Please install only the most basic version of the plugin. NETPUMPER CONTAINS SPYWARE.

To save both bandwidth and the site as a whole, I’ve installed a plugin which will do quite a few things…

1.) Disallow all direct linking from the site.
2.) Allow you to download one file at a time, and ONLY one. Multiple downloads at once are not supported.
3.) Prevent any other act of "leeching" my files.

Some people, who I will not name, have been consuming MP3′s like crazy. I don’t even host that much MP3 content, yet one IP has managed to download 3GB worth of data. This is totally unacceptable, and I can only assume people are streaming from my site. I understand that you guys like the music, but it’s at too much high a cost if the site suffers.

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