• From: Cambridgeshire, UK
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Topic: Holiday season updates

Many new DriverPacks were released recently. 
Thank you to everyone who posted bug reports in our forums.  You've helped make DriverPacks even better!
As usual, these DriverPacks have passed our testing-team's rigorous testing methods.

Many people continue to ask the question: "Why are the downloads only torrents now?" or "What happened to the direct downloads?"
Well, the answer is simple and has not changed:

"Greed killed the DriverPacks downloads."

Bit Torrent is now our sole means of distribution.  Our donations dropped to a level that would no longer sustain the website AND download demands.
High-speed dedicated download servers are expensive and were the first to go.  Then we lost our donated CDN bandwidth.  Bit Torrent is now our only option left.

So, if you find DriverPacks useful AND you make money from their use (Enterprise/Commercial use), please strongly consider donating a fraction of your profits to DriverPacks to help sustain the efforts.
Donations have always been voluntary, but money is getting scarce.
As an alternative to donating money, many have volunteered to donate bandwidth by setting up a Bit Torrent Seed Server.  More information is at the bottom of this page: http://driverpacks.net/donate

With the holidays and cold weather coming over the next few months, development of the DriverPacks will probably increase as the team spends less time outdoors and huddle up with our warm computers.

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  • Registered: 2009-10-18
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Re: Holiday season updates

I just donated what I could. Got 4 kids but I am telling you the DriverPacks are a life saver and without them I would be lost. At tax time in Feb, I am going to drop a much bigger amount and when I make a promise, I stick too it! If all the folks downloading the packs would just donated a dollar, well, you could open a new server.

  • OverFlow
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Re: Holiday season updates

And that is what i have been saying for years. if even one in ten of the people who download the DriverPacks sent a dollar we could go back to a CDN (content delivery network), like one of the CDN providers who we have had donate to us in the past, and put torrents on the back burner. The reality of it is one person in a hundred thousand sends us $20.

Thanks for being one in a million Lad!

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  • Registered: 2009-10-18
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Re: Holiday season updates

And that is what i have been saying for years. if even one in ten of the people who download the DriverPacks sent a dollar we could go back to a CDN (content delivery network), like one of the CDN providers who we have had donate to us in the past, and put torrents on the back burner. The reality of it is one person in a hundred thousand sends us $20.

Thanks for being one in a million Lad!

I wish I could drop you guys a grand. I would in a heart beat! I hope I am able to drop a couple hundred in Feb. It's Ladd by the way....lol! I have been called much worse! smile

There should be a new word invented for "Thank You" that's more powerful because I seriously thank you all for DriverPacks and driverpacks.net

Last edited by laddanator (2011-11-09 12:21:33)

  • From: Hasselt, Belgium
  • Registered: 2006-05-26
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Re: Holiday season updates

Thanks laddanator smile

Thanks for the kind words and for making an actual donation.

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  • From: Cambridgeshire, UK
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: Holiday season updates

Thanks Chris.  We all appreciate it.

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Re: Holiday season updates

nice smile

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  • Registered: 2009-10-18
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Re: Holiday season updates

No problem guys

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Re: Holiday season updates

yeah!!!Thanks Chris.  We all appreciate it.