sure, and eventually that’d be a good way to share them. Either way, loosening limits on downloads would crush their servers now

I think you misunderstood. they don’t restrict it to be petty. Allowing lots of concurrent downloads means paying for more bandwidth, or it means the site goes down.

I feel like RAM is rarely the bottleneck for a lot of use cases. Often on old computers what I see is slow WAN or slow I/O on hard drives.

Me reading this and the comments, wondering if I’ll ever use all 4G ram on my Linux X201…