FileSonic Downloads Canceled - New Hosting Service Announced!

[r0c0]

rapidshare dudes, rapidshare

GL downloading 20/30Gb files from there ....

[Arsehel]

" We hope to put the site online before 3 days
( On Wednesday, January 25 ).
For your security, we will use Russian servers "

Just for the record, this means that the FBI don't have to right to shut down the site?

[slimmnm]

rapidshare dudes, rapidshare

i agree rapidshare is way better than filesonic and much faster and no time waiting it is the best

[Bolec]

Maybe Skydrive or Dropbox? Or it's time to set private servers.

[.Spike.]

It's not just filesonic.

FileServe
Deleting multiple files. Closed affiliate program.

FileJungle
(Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.

UploadStation
(Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.

VideoBB
Closed affiliate program.

FilePost
Started suspending accounts with infringing material (doing what Hotfile did)

VideoZer
Closed affiliate program.

4shared
Deleting multiple files.

[BahumatLord]

Giga resells their lines/services to other providers. They make up for an extremely large portion of NSPs. A very large portion of posts to Usenet are made through Giga.

Yes, I'm aware of everything you're saying. I'm not battling to be right, but just pointing out, again, that Usenet isn't impenetrable. Things absolutely do get deleted.

I get what you're saying too. I'm not battling to be right either. Neither one of us are entirely wrong or right. At the end of the day tho, we need to figure out a solution to the file hosting dilemma and I would trust Usenet over file hosts/torrents right now. Torrents by nature track where info is coming from/ going to. At least usenet there are steps you can take to hide where stuff is being uploaded from to protect yourself. As for protecting the data, it's a simple matter of changing the file names so that anyone with a usenet search engine wouldn't be able to easily find the stuff, but the people you want to find it would be able to

[Darkman-PSG]

Idk why you guys are complaining anyway tbh who in their right mind download over 20gb if anything was over 10gb I wouldn't even bother messing with it. You had to actually buy a membership just to do parallel downloading anyway

WHAT I DO TO GET A GAME
Friends (borrow then copy game)
Blockbuster (copy game)
Gamestop (buy for cheap)
Ebay (buy for cheap)

All hosting sites are pretty much scared of going to jail so its the end of the games unless you do what I listed above

[BahumatLord]

@Darkman-PSG - not true, not true, and wait for it...... not true. My main concern is not with bootlegs/pirated material - there are too many other sources for that but with game fixes software updates, etc. It takes like an hour to donwload 20 gigs on a crappy connection like mine so that's still pretty quick - quicker than going to Blockbuster, renting a game and coming back home - you need a membership there and IDK if you've noticed, but most blockbusters have closed their doors because of netflix. And for the parallel download issue, FreeRapid supports proxy lists so you do get your max connection speed as long as you've got a current/checked proxy list. People will always find a way to bootleg, but these file hosting sites weren't used only for that. It's just what some people decided to use them for and just because we're talking about it on a PS3 site doesn't mean that's why everyone's concerned about the loss of these sites

[Warning]

Torrents, NZB, FTP

[Darkman-PSG]

@BahumatLord ah I see... well I dont download that much anyway but Mediafire is still useable though but I do get what you are saying though its funny how SOPA didnt pass (yet) BUT it already did the damage

[krytonic]

(and it's not just Giga who are being targeted. Astra, who makes up for another large portion, also are being targeted.)

I think you are missunderstanding him. He is not saying newsgroups will never go down, he is saying that the usenet service itself won't since as providers go down, more will pop up. Just like with torrents... It will always be around.

Idk why you guys are complaining anyway tbh who in their right mind download over 20gb if anything was over 10gb I wouldn't even bother messing with it. You had to actually buy a membership just to do parallel downloading anyway

WHAT I DO TO GET A GAME
Friends (borrow then copy game)
Blockbuster (copy game)
Gamestop (buy for cheap)
Ebay (buy for cheap)

All hosting sites are pretty much scared of going to jail so its the end of the games unless you do what I listed above

I could download something which is 20GB from megaupload in less than 2 hours. Even if it is multiple rar files, you just use jdownloader. You just need to learn how to download from file hosting sites efficiently, and get a better internet connection.

[ThatOtherPerson]

My Uploadstation and Fileserve accounts have been banned and all of my files stored with them have been deleted... What really sucks is that I already had roughly $40 already sitting in the Uploadstation account and before any of this even started going down I had requested it be transferred to my paypal account but it didn't get processed in time (it always took like a week before they sent it). A day or two earlier and I probably would have gotten it. Oh well. On the upside there was only like $5 in the Fileserve account and I wasn't really earning much from either of them anymore.

Some people on other sites are freaking out like this is going to be the end of piracy and people are going to look back on this as being the bygone glory days of free content. It isn't the end. No matter how many hosting sites go down there will always be others and there will always be alternatives like usenet and torrents and newer better ways of sharing data. But this is still incredibly significant.

The real concern isn't the short term inconvenience caused by these shut downs and changes. The real problem is how much has been lost. There is a lot of data being hosted on Megaupload, Filesonic and their contemporaries that isn't available anywhere else.

Contrary to what others may suggest (often in an attempt to convince idiots to be cautious about what they post on social networks out of fear that it will haunt them in the future) the internet is entirely ephemeral and nothing persists unless it is actively preserved.

You know that abandoned piece of software you use sometimes? That cool mod for your favorite 90s PC game? That obscure comic series you liked? Well only a few people have it and nobody is going to bother to upload it again. If there was a torrent for it you can be sure that nobody is seeding anymore. That stuff is gone forever. Five years from now you are still going to be coming across posts in old forums and websites that are littered with links to these dead sites and you won't always be able to find active alternatives.

This is like when GeoCities shut down but taken to an extreme. GeoCities was already mostly abandoned and forgotten by the time it shut down. But Megaupload was thriving right up until the end and there was a lot of stuff on it.

[krytonic]

My Uploadstation and Fileserve accounts have been banned and all of my files stored with them have been deleted... What really sucks is that I already had roughly $40 already sitting in the Uploadstation account and before any of this even started going down I had requested it be transferred to my paypal account but it didn't get processed in time (it always took like a week before they sent it). A day or two earlier and I probably would have gotten it. Oh well. On the upside there was only like $5 in the Fileserve account and I wasn't really earning much from either of them anymore.

Some people on other sites are freaking out like this is going to be the end of piracy and people are going to look back on this as being the bygone glory days of free content. It isn't the end. No matter how many hosting sites go down there will always be others and there will always be alternatives like usenet and torrents and newer better ways of sharing data. But this is still incredibly significant.

The real concern isn't the short term inconvenience caused by these shut downs and changes. The real problem is how much has been lost. There is a lot of data being hosted on Megaupload, Filesonic and their contemporaries that isn't available anywhere else.

Contrary to what others may suggest (often in an attempt to convince idiots to be cautious about what they post on social networks out of fear that it will haunt them in the future) the internet is entirely ephemeral and nothing persists unless it is actively preserved.

You know that abandoned piece of software you use sometimes? That cool mod for your favorite 90s PC game? That obscure comic series you liked? Well only a few people have it and nobody is going to bother to upload it again. If there was a torrent for it you can be sure that nobody is seeding anymore. That stuff is gone forever. Five years from now you are still going to be coming across posts in old forums and websites that are littered with links to these dead sites and you won't always be able to find active alternatives.

This is like when GeoCities shut down but taken to an extreme. GeoCities was already mostly abandoned and forgotten by the time it shut down. But Megaupload was thriving right up until the end and there was a lot of stuff on it.

You have a good point, a lot of old stuff will be impossible to find now.

[amp2006]

i just got last warning over 4shared site and this time by Sony Itself who reported me about CFW 3.55 and OFW 3.55 and i have ton of files over there once i get a better network connection i am gunna move to Mediafire site .

[.Spike.]

Mediafire I think is down or gonna be soon. :P

[patz]

i agree rapidshare is way better than filesonic and much faster and no time waiting it is the best

But who's gonna upload to Rapidshare? They don't pay uploaders. Nobody wants to waste their time for nothing.

[krytonic]

Nobody wants to waste their time for nothing.

Tell that to people who upload torrents.

[BahumatLord]

Tell that to people who upload torrents.

yeah, I've never tried to be paid for anything I've uploaded over the years. Anything I've uploaded is because I saw a need and tried to fill it or just because I cared about a project. Getting paid for these uploads is why we're in the situation we're in now. In my opinion it is just retarded to think that you can get paid for uploading bootlegs with no consequences but like I said, it's not the only use for these sites but it's what destroyed them

[krytonic]

yeah, I've never tried to be paid for anything I've uploaded over the years. Anything I've uploaded is because I saw a need and tried to fill it or just because I cared about a project. Getting paid for these uploads is why we're in the situation we're in now. In my opinion it is just retarded to think that you can get paid for uploading bootlegs with no consequences but like I said, it's not the only use for these sites but it's what destroyed them

Yeah it annoyed me when people would say something like "Don't mirror my links/mirroring my files is not allowed" so they can continue to get paid for the upload, when they were not allowed to upload it by the creators of the files in the first place.

Some people believe that putting a disc in a drive, copying all copywrited material from it to their computer and then uploading it entitles them to money.

[Darkman-PSG]

I think you are missunderstanding him. He is not saying newsgroups will never go down, he is saying that the usenet service itself won't since as providers go down, more will pop up. Just like with torrents... It will always be around.



I could download something which is 20GB from megaupload in less than 2 hours. Even if it is multiple rar files, you just use jdownloader. You just need to learn how to download from file hosting sites efficiently, and get a better internet connection.

what internet service do you have any how much do you pay... I usually get around 350-500kbs downloading frm megaupoad and everything else I only get 900kbs+ when downloading from a torrent