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| What happened to the "Raw Cover Scans" link? |
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| Starbuck777:
Was interested in experimenting with raw scans... |
| Arseen:
Many reasons... Two main things were serious misuse that caused huge bills and there was major security loophole. Also we had started using Mediafire and Box.net, both which do fine with raw distribution (boards are filled with raw material). |
| ShoothimNow:
Even though it's been down for about 5 years, this post from 10 months ago sums it up nicely (It's currently the stickied post on the front page of TCP) http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=25736.0 People think they are entitled to downloading everything all at once, and seeing that there is no limitation of size on some scans (I can scan a cover at a ridiculous DPI and get the filesize to be a little north of 200MB), Snowcone would be paying hand over fist. That... and if someone thought it would be hilarious to upload a virus, there really wasn't stopping anybody from doing so. |
| Starbuck777:
--- Quote from: Arseen on January 05, 2020, 11:57:39 AM ---Many reasons... Two main things were serious misuse that caused huge bills and there was major security loophole. Also we had started using Mediafire and Box.net, both which do fine with raw distribution (boards are filled with raw material). --- End quote --- I'm interested in the raw scans, so I can practice doing covers. I'm sending an email to Snowcone for more info on how to get an archive. Personally, I think torrents, newsgroups or mirc could be better to solve the bandwidth issues |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: Starbuck777 on January 05, 2020, 03:25:49 PM --- --- Quote from: Arseen on January 05, 2020, 11:57:39 AM ---Many reasons... Two main things were serious misuse that caused huge bills and there was major security loophole. Also we had started using Mediafire and Box.net, both which do fine with raw distribution (boards are filled with raw material). --- End quote --- I'm interested in the raw scans, so I can practice doing covers. I'm sending an email to Snowcone for more info on how to get an archive. Personally, I think torrents, newsgroups or mirc could be better to solve the bandwidth issues --- End quote --- Those scans in the raws section were mostly bad and are probably deleted. For which console you want raws? I have some SNES and some NES raws. |
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