I was reading some other threads and if it's true that a file can remain on a FTP server for 24 hours and then be removed, without "copyright" owners being able to shut it down, then why aren't more people simply setting up FTP servers with a perl script that removes any files that are over 24 hours old?

I know the IRC people are using FTP to share, is this sort of what they are doing? Can someone explain how this IRC sharing thing works? How does IRC lead to a FTP server?

If it's true, then isn't this gnutella thing just a big waste of time for those poor programmers who made all this code?

Wouldn't it be easier to just run a FTP server on my personal computer instead of gnutella and all these spyware problems?

Is this a good idea, or am I just nuts?