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Originally Posted by raymor
What's with this almost religious zealotry where you try SO hard to bash
Strongbox, so much that you'd be so completely dishonest as to take that
quote and totally skip the very next sentence? The very next sentence is
the link saying "see GeoIP City Coverage and Accuracy". What I said was
that at the city level, it's wrong up to almost 40% of the time in certain regions.
Some examples from their site, linked as the very next sentence after the one
you quoted:
France 37%
Greece 38%
Italy 36%
Saudi Arabia 46%
Poland 37%
Switzerland 36%
You were obviously staring right at that link since you copied and pasted
the sentence right before it, so are you illiterate or are you dishonest?
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I have 181 active members right now.
only 18 members are not in the US, 11 of those are in Canada.
Only having a 36% accuracy rate for Saudi Arabia doesnt matter in the least.
I didnt post those stats because they dont matter.
Even if 20% of my members were in these countries were the accuracy is under 40% all that means is that 20% of my members could share locally a little bit and get away with it, much as people anywhere can share a little bit with SB... right?
[quote[
Frog is typically set up to
be stricter, so it stops passwords sooner, at the cost of blocking more legitimate
members. Our philosophy, by comparison, is to make sure we do NOT block
legitimate users, even if that means it takes a few minutes or hours longer
to catch all of the compromised ones. So again, if you've read any thread
where I mention Frog you've heard me compliment them and then give an
accurate comparison, one that they would more than likely agree with the
majority of. [/QUOTE]
If a legitimate customer is sharing their password how are they still legitimate?
As far as I know I have only had one member get blocked when he was on vacation. He recovered his own password instantly and was on his way. He even emailed me later to say that the instant password recovery worked great and that more sites need it.
I would say at least half the passwords automatically recovered are just because they forgot them or lost the email with it because when I look at that user its the same ip from the same location.
I get about 3 passwords recovered in any given 48 hour time frame. This may not be lots, but my member base is still small.
But thats still 45 passwords I dont have to send out manually. I would think my time is worth more then the 55 dollar a month fee. Not to mention if it keeps even 1 member rebilling instead of just canceling then its worth every penny.
I got a little off track there.
You say you dont block as fast just to keep from blocking legitimate members. But if you let in lets say 5 "bad" users befor blocking. Now there are 5 people downloading my content without paying, using my BW, and then what if 1 of them shares it on the torrents or news groups?
Some people seem to think shared content is good for business, but I disagree.
I try and minimize content theft. I do this by keeping as many non legit members out of my members area.
I wasn't going to post this because I didnt know if it made any sense, but... sue me.