Vipeers has started to enforce some tight restrictions for its
free torrent hosting and download service. The service now
restricts users to "a handful of http downloads per file", after
which the following error message is displayed:  pic of vipeers
error message  The restrictions are are reaction to abuse of the
service, according to the Vipeers blog:  "(W)e're doing what
every abused hosting service has to do: detect abuse and block
it. Until we have the ultra-fine control dashboard that we aim
at, unfortunately we have to be harsher with all our users.
That's why we have put some limitations to the number of http
downloads."  The restrictions also seem to affect the Bittorrent
seeding of files through Vipeers' servers, as users are told
that "(t)he file is not relayed in P2P anymore", but the Vipers
blog explains that you can always just distribute your file by
seeding it yourself. Of course, that was possible all along
through other torrent sites.  These restrictions show how tough
it can be for hosting