LW is a gnutella application. Gnutella is the sort of web source that intends to offer open access. Many people can't afford to buy an ISP connection to the internet which is more expensive than a dial-up modem. Don't they have the same right to use LW as you do?

As to your suggestion about requiring a certain number of uploads that a user should do before being allowed to download, you should look in "options" in your LW "Tools." You can set your program to prohibit "freeloaders" and can set the number of file uploads that you require for a user not to be a freeloader.

This allows you to make a personal choice rather than a global policy that might not work for other people.