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Unless you've been living under a digital rock, you will have seen the recent US seizure of MegaUpload's domains and servers, and the international arrests of those behind the site.In reaction to these arrests, Uploaded.to has blocked US users, and FileSonic have stopped offering file sharing all together - turning into simply a backup host - and a lot of file hosts have stopped their paid programs.Now I always thought these paid programs promoted illegal file sharing and profiteering of someone else's hard work - so was never a supporter, but the question is now - with the chilling effects of the MegaUpload situation spreading throughout the hosting industry - where are music bloggers going to host their mixtape and larger downloads?SoundCloud is great for hosting individual tracks, but for times when you want to give away a compilation or mixtape - what do you see yourself using in 12 months time?
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1. this forum is being read by large labels, so don't post information on useful but vulnerable services. discuss them in private section.
2. The situation is still in flux, I think they are sending threatening letter to those services, and try the old "sue everybody" and hope it has chilling effect. It somewhat works with p2p search engine, but it really doesn't do anything to p2p itself.
3. obviously, private p2p and filesharing community are still around and will gain importance.
4. the way I see it, sooner or later they gonna create a system combining tor, p2p, and file hosting.
so there is one public link, the link is translated by "tor - alternative "name resolver" system consisting of distributed, ever changing servers, a specialized client, and then where the actual file itself is located. everything is ever changing except the public link, just like p2p. Basically it will become a gigantic firewall system for file sharing.
5. people are now going to watch their devices very carefully. those new iPad/Android tablets all have locked ROM, containing device ID and spying softwares. They are all spying. No alternate ROM means NO sale. The next battle ground is on the device itself, cause that's where they are going to go after they fail to remove filesharing, or preventing new development.
6. stop watching big studio movie. Batman, Hobbit are dead. (These are huge budget movie, very vulnerable to negative campaign attack.)
btw, it is time to seriously search for distributed social networking. (those tweeter/facebook/google+ are going to kill you. so don't type stuff into that. It's the next big battle, I can feel it.)
I think Obama might lost a lot of young vote because of all this. I guess all that hollywood money is important for him.
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The reason I made this topic open, is because I'm talking about legal (or pretty much legal) uses of the services.I have no doubt the pirate community will adapt and reform like they always do - but for those using the file sharing services to share legal files might be less lucky or ready to turn to P2P, etc.
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I am watching, it seems it's a big shake down. but there are tons of services with different settings. I think music file is pretty much unstoppable since it is so small. 50-60MB. too many services can do that. Movie is .7-1GB.
My most affected habit: downloading odd japanese movies (also, not shown french and british indies)... lol. goodbye megaupload. this is more annoying than not being able to find .srt file.
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Hahah.It appears MediaFire and Rapidshare are here to say - both companies have come out and aligned their services with Dropbox/Box.net/SkyDrive and said they have not built their businesses on piracy (which is debatable to be honest, but still).
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This whole bruhaha will really put a crimp on my progress learning japanese swear words like bad yakuza movie.
my sense tells me, my japanese ability is at about a very clever german shepard. mad swear words, common greetings, basic emotional intonation ... another six months, I would start to know basic questions words, pronoun and rudimentary sentence structure. all without opening language book.
who says piracy doesn't lead to better world ...
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[–]trevorEFFEFF[S] 216 points 6 hours ago*
We've long been concerned that the seizures, done mainly by ICE (not the FBI), are a violation of free speech and otherwise problematic. That's easily seen in Megaupload, as so many ordinary, noninfringing users of the system had their speech removed.
But the existence of these seizure powers also demonstrates that the
main RIAA/MPAA claims about SOPA and PIPA are unfounded. Megaupload was
once held up as an example of why SOPA and PIPA were necessary, yet
less than 24 hours after it was indefinitely shelved, the government was
able to seize Megaupload's domains and arrest its owners. Remember,
they arrested a German and Finnish citizen, in New Zealand, whose
company was incorporated in Hong Kong. The U.S. government doesn't need
any new laws; they have too much power as it is.http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ot98v/hey_reddit_were_the_activism_team_at_eff_thanks/
This is amazing, so basically, the fastest and baddest of file service is at the other side of ocean. It means pacific fiber optic and server space have become so cheap, megaupload can delivers huge amount of data for nearly free. there is no way they can stop anything anymore. There is no real physical barrier. It' all engineering problem to evade legal attack.
wow, my mind is blown. I am basically downloading files from china... lol.
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MegaUpload Alternatives See Surge in Traffic After Shutdown
The graph below shows a sharp increase in traffic for four popular
MegaUpload ‘replacements’ since last week. Based on data from various
traffic measurement sites, Depositfiles, Uploaded.to, Hotfile and Rapidshare welcomed hundreds of thousands of extra visitors.
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