Ok this is something else i think and no i kinda regret starting this thread at all but here goes:
The ftp's should stay open in my opinion *period.* I just think that there has to be SOME WAY to get it orginized. So this is what i think. If some one doesn't follow a rule or does something even slightly out of lan, ban them. Just warn them that to keep it orderly if they do something stupid at all even once, they are banned. People will see this and go "wow better not fuck around with these l33t people." Eventually less requests and leeching will be made. the only problem i see with irc is that
(A.) i'm banned because some one in my ip did something stupid.
and
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it would be good to ship it over there but it's also very slow with huge que lines and slow downlads. So yeah... just ban their asses even if they are a tad out of line to get the message through..
my two cents