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FileMirrors.com is an anonymous URL sharing service for users of Headlight Software products.
Many sites list a number of locations where you can download a file--sometimes buried a few pages deep. Different users will click or find different locations for the same file. As different users share the one URL they clicked on, the FileMirrors.com database will add them as possible mirrors for a file. With enough users sharing, this will let everyone find more mirrors for files, helping everyone to get faster and more reliable downloads. All this searching and sharing is done automatically when this FileMirrors.com searching is enabled. The Lightning Download installer shows options to turn on or off using FileMirrors for searching, as well as if it should share URLs when using this search service. There are of course also controls in the program for turning this service on or off.
Even when enabled, Lightning Download will not use this service for all downloads. Lightning Download will only use this service for: 1) EXE or Compressed file types--EXE, ZIP, RAR, etc. No images, MP3s, web pages, etc. 2) downloads that do not use a username and password. 3) and files at least 100K in size. The more people who enable the URL sharing when using this, the better the database will be for everyone. Unlike the file sharing programs (Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.), you are not sharing the files themselves, and are not sharing your computer's resources, just the URL where you found a file--a small extra bit of text added to the search request. This service is shared with GetRight users--the more users that share the better,
but there are already enough people sharing that the database is quite good!
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PRIVACY: Using this service with Lightning Download is Optional (and even when using this service, sharing URLs is also Optional.) When searching with this service, Lightning Download will send at least the file Name and Size. You may optionally also include the URL so it can be added to the FileMirrors.com database and help others searching for the same file. With any Internet connection, your IP address is available to the server you connect to; but no other personally identifying information is sent. If you do not want to use this service, make sure the item is unchecked in Lightning Download. The intent of this service is NOT to track individual user's downloads. It is to anonymously build a database of mirrors for downloads so everyone can benefit from faster and more reliable downloads. Even when enabled, Lightning Download will not use this service for all downloads. Lightning Download will only use this service for: 1) EXE or Compressed file types--EXE, ZIP, RAR, etc. No images, MP3s, web pages, etc. 2) downloads that do not use a username/password. 3) and files at least 100K in size. The information in the database may be used for aggregate statistics for things like "Top Downloads" on the FileMirrors.com website. |