MegaUpload - Closed. FileServe - Closing, does not sell premium. FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S.. UploadStation - Locked in the U.S.. FileSonic - the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation). VideoBB - Closed! Will disappear soon. Uploaded - Banned in the U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone. FilePost - Deleting all material (will leave executables, pdfs, txts) Videoz - Closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA. 4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI. MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors. Pro FBI Org Torrent - Could vanish with everything within 30 days "he is under criminal investigation" Network Share mIRC - Awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrente everything. Koshiki - Operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA Shienko Box - 100% working China / Korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA ShareX BR - group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA
You americans need to pull youself together. Good on ya for stalling SOPA/PIPA, but it ain't over yet.
Can't stop the signal. Damn straight. Though most ISPs no longer offer Usenet access themselves and when mine did last it was heavily redacted and had extremely poor retention as well as huge swaths of most files larger than 100kb missing data. Essential this means you have to pay for decent service which never bothers me beyond what that currently represents as a safe harbor for free speech.
How foolish that many of you think that copyright infringement is the main reason they're busting this guy... how foolish. In 2002 he was extradited to Germany by Thailand, due to a very big insider trading scam he pulled off. If you didn't have the misfortune of being fooled by a deal of his, he's pretty fun, though: SOPA and PIPA are shit, but he got what he deserved :thumbsup:
That's balls! Even this site can be in trouble? :| A lot of people have been saying "I'm back to torrents" well, to be honest Torrents have always been easier for me, and many others but ISPs have lately been slowing torrent connections down. If filesharing sites stay alive, our ISPs by the government be told stop or slow connections to this site and that site etc.. Might as well tear the net down and start reading people's twitter feeds on paper..
I hope Dropbox will stay up, not because of illegal reasons, but because it's so damn useful for transferring files!
No, that was in their ToS for like a day or so. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231001038/dropbox-backpedals-after-cloud-data-ownership-gaffe.htm
That came from a blog so alot of those are grain of salt. I haven't read anything on legit news sites about Mediafire There are still at least 20 other fileshare sites nobody really knows about. Found the Truth here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399238,00.asp
Hey, that's great. Because that was what have kept me from using dropbox. Still, if that was what the db owners want in the future...
I hope Megaupload stays safe. They're the only share service I actually like and use. Unlimited connections (well, I haven't hit a cap) and good speed. No waiting. It's great for sharing my music with friends without roadblocks or explanation.
Well considering the fact that the feds went into another country and illegally arrested the owner of Megaupload for breaking american copyright laws outside U.S. soil (since he wasn't operating in america the feds have no legal jurisdiction to make an arrest nor do they have any authority or right to enforce U.S. laws outside the U.S.). Once the courts understand that the feds oversteped their legal boundaries Megaupload should be restored.
What part of they had servers in Virginia didn't you hear? You have Rapidshare oron croc share which is pretty fast There are still options out there plus I'm sure new sites will pop up to fill the void.
And I have no problem with them shuting down the servers in Virginia since those were in the U.S. what I do have a problem with is when the feds go after servers and operations that are outside of their legal boundaries IE: where the rest of megaupload is.
U.S. Law counts on U.S. soil, unless the FBI had something set up with the country he was in I think we could see some major egg on face.
(Ok, I haven't read the entire thread yet, so maybe it was mentioned already). Why would you want to do that? Archive (with a password) all your stuffs, and e-mail them to your gmail account. Done. If you are paranoid, create a second account, cc: it. About 10 years go I did some consulting for Bell Canada, back when they had partnership with, IIRC, Yahoo. Any way, details are not important, the important thing is, I remember being shown the logs of the sign up system for the free web based e-mail that they had and seeing 10s of sign up attempts a minute (We had reasons to believe that new account creations were automated). An e-mail account will get created, and very rapidly hit its' capacity, and then just sit there, getting constantly checked, but with no new e-mails coming in, or going out. Turned out, that folks were signing up for free e-mail, uploading mp3s/parts of movies/etc as attachments, and then sharing the usernames/passwords between each-other. And in the dial-up days/early DSL days, bandwidth was a commodity, and Bell had metric buttloads of it, people just piggybacked off their free 100MB mailbox service. That was 10 years ago. Ah, good times. I was fresh out of school. Now a days, there is gmail with its' unlimited mailbox, there is Linux with its "let's mount gmail as a filesystem, and store arbitrary files on it over the internet" kernel module, etc. The only downside of this, is that anyone with access to the mailbox can delete the e-mail, but *shrug* It's not that hard to come up with a system, where you will be forwarded a copy of the e-mail to *your* gmail account from an account you don't have access to, by filling up a form on some 3rd party site. At the same time, files can be encrypted, to prevent google from inspecting the contents. It's just a paradigm shift, nothing revolutionary. People used to share content, commonly illegal, online, and they will continue to do so. The only bad part, is that 1000s of megaupload links out there are dead now. P.S Ever wondered why gmail wants your phone number, if you sign up for a new "free" account? If you want to be creative, a new DID (Direct Inbound Dial number, that someone can call to) is less then 5$/month from VoIP providers. But it's too complicated. You just use mail.ru or yandex.ru (latter offers file sharing already, but is slow), or some Chinese e-mail hoster, or whatever. Added bonus of not being subject to American/EU laws. P.P.S. Capchas, in case you were wondering, do not solve a thing. Heck, ever wondered how those Cialis ads get through capcha protected sites? One of the basic ways to defeat capcha, is to make another human type all the stuff in for you. All you need is some erotic images, and a system, that will make teenagers type in capcha (that you load from the site, whose capcha you want to defeat), before viewing the picture. Perfect system - they type in the capcha for you, you do whatever it is that is capcha protected, and show them some "free" pictures of nekkid flesh. And they come back for more.
