Originally Posted by Paul Markham

You don't need to cap the BW burn. We have a site with 410 movies on and update 4/5 a day. The members BW burn simply does not reflect or support the myth of surfers downloading everything. The picture on our site is they want the big one and download it one or two at a time. Unless their connection speed is VERY high it looks like they DL it when they don't need it.

Some go for the smaller version of course. Few are going for the clips, except the last two.

Just the picture I get from my site.

But if you think about the big sites and the quality of the movies and the cost of hosting/BW it would be tough for them to maintain it if a lot of surfers downloaded everything. For instance I have 600 GB of movies. OK with clips and two versions, but the big ones are what they want. To DL everything on a good host will cost $30 in BW alone and more. Add servers and you can see the members are not taking it all.

The members I suspect on most sites are DLing one at a time, having 30 minutes of fun and moving on. That costs a few cents.

I do have spider/download bots prevention installed. 95% of the time it was password traders doing it.