From my understanding the data is for everyone, you sign up if you want to be a member. Like YouTube, you can make an account, but you don't need one to watch videos. This is just how I understand it at the moment, I haven't fully dug into it yet.
Solves almost all these problems and at the VERY least offers a way to avoid these problems INITIALLY if only for the first files added
But advanced features over the protocol that handle "Google Drive"-like set-ups that handle adding new files and designating which files you'd like to download - is available.
This feels honeypot-ish. Why do you have to sign up to receive "open" data?
From my understanding the data is for everyone, you sign up if you want to be a member. Like YouTube, you can make an account, but you don't need one to watch videos. This is just how I understand it at the moment, I haven't fully dug into it yet.
On the signup page it says:
Maybe pages means something other than the data though. Will have to wait and see.
This is to prevent the site from getting DDOSed by bots overloading the downloads.
I'll say it and I'll say it OVER AND OVER
B I T T O R R E N T
Solves almost all these problems and at the VERY least offers a way to avoid these problems INITIALLY if only for the first files added
But advanced features over the protocol that handle "Google Drive"-like set-ups that handle adding new files and designating which files you'd like to download - is available.