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bobjones17234
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Why does every file have to hide their password? I was just curious.
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Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:01 pm |
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Sat
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Welcome to LAH!
Let me elaborate on your question.
There are multiple reasons:
- Deniability. Altough this has decreased recently, there were individuals falsely reporting uploaded files as illegal content. When the file is passworded, the host hosting the file has a harder time deleting the content due not being able to check it's content.
- Increase of traffic to LAH. Due to the password being posted prevalently here, it will drive people here to download the files.
- Increase of registrations. People are lazy. Everyone is used to the one-click consumer culture. Working for your reward makes it sweeter! Because only registered users can see the password, it will make you register on LAH to unpack the file, therefore giving you a chance to participate on the site! It's a win-win scenario!
- Increasing content exclusivity. Of course, everything on the internet is a repost. Due to our diligent users like fijneman or Omegadivider, we sometimes are the first to have some content. Passwording it makes it stay longer on this site. Oh, and fijneman doesn't put passwords on his files. The requirement is, of course, optional.
- Returning visitors. Sometimes you want to open the original file but have lost the password. Where is the password? Yes, on LAH!
Those are the reasons I can name from memory, but I'm sure there are more good reasons for doing it.
Please note that according to our rules, this is strongly recommended but not required. As mentioned, some contributors do not put passwords on their files.
If you have any more questions, we are here for you
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Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:30 am |
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Lunatsuki
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And I would add that the password being hidden is mostly "technically" corret. It's not like we go the extra mile to make it so finding it require a great deal of reflexion, going through several other sites, using an exe that will decrypt yet another file to decode to finally enjoy your find.
As long as anyone took a minute to read the rules at least once (which is kind of a basic thing to do when you go to a new forum, in my opinion) and have no memory issue, they'll have no problem knowing where to look for the sesame and do so on just a couple seconds at most.
And as Sat said, if you don't want to bother passwording, just don't. It's not like he's going to put a gun on your temple and force you to do it.
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