This is a question that comes up here from time to time, so I want to answer this in detail.
First a bit of history, just for the guys that weren't here from the beginning.
- The kara-moon forum is here since more the a year now and the first idea was to discuss music and production. We only had a few member and it was pretty calm...
- Then the old Auditorium, in which i was a moderator, died when Spe3D stopped his internet activity. I proposed to the community to take over the auditorium and make a good place to discuss music & production. We only got positive answers and new members started to join (thanks guys for joining us !)
Alltough this was good news it allso had a backside.
The more we grew, the more problems we had. I still don't understand why, but we have been under severe hacker attacks ! We suffered from all possible and impossible attacks, like 10000 parallel login from the same IP adress, parrallel downloads of free sample pack, parrallel playing of songs, and a couple of worse things that I don't understand
Moon is the techy here.
At a certain time, to stay a live as a site, Moon was constantly monitoring the site and modifying the code of the source to make it more secure. Thanks to his effort we never have been down, and I hope it stays that way....
We allso learned a lot of this
The old auditorium has been hacked 2 times and was completly down at a certain time. One of the reason was the streaming and direct linking issue.
Big forums like kvr (just to name one) doesn't even allow direct attachments to posts and they know why...
We wanted to offer the service to have not only direct attachments ot your post but allso direct linking to your songs. But we have to keep in mind the security of the site. You don't want us to dissappear tomorrow, don't you....
So, we had to make a choice.
The fact that streaming is impossible is that the playing of a song is handled by software and not directly played, it not only handles the downloading of the song but allso the security to avoid abuse.
And this will stay that way, unless Moon finds some miracle solution.
I understand that some people don't want to wait for the song to download, despite the fact that we have a fast server with unlimited bandwith, but I don't have an answer to this.
I hope you understand...
kara
