...isn't good.
Unfortunately, Megaupload's crackdown was only the beginning. A few days after that happened, Filesonic disabled its download function. And shortly thereafter, Fileserve, Filepost, Uploaded.to, Filejungle, Uploadstation, 4shared, and quite a few other filesharing websites have undergone major changes ranging from US IP blocking to disabling downloading entirely, like Filesonic.
What does this mean? Things are going to be harder and harder to share, especially if other websites follow suit.
Mediafire is definitely the best untouched website left, but their 200MB file limit (for free users; premium paid users have a much larger limit) is what keeps it from being ideal. DepositFiles is pretty good. Wupload is decent. And although it's a mere shadow of its former self, I suppose Rapidshare isn't completely horrible. It's a sad, sad day when Rapidshare is one of the best options. Thanks US government.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The current state of filesharing websites
thanks for telling us, in question to the download servers I think it would be better to come upstairs to mediafire files, we need not wait for the download and you can download the file to an acceptable speed, and other servers as rapidshare is a speed limit of discharge. Similarly it is not what you think about working with torrent, but it would be a good choice to come upstairs files there. thank you very much
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad that Mediafire hasn't gone down yet. I have so much stuff uploaded onto it that it'd take forever for me to upload elsewhere. Mediafire's file limit isn't too bad since you can always split a file with HJ Split/7zip/Winrar, but for really large files it's a pain. I can't imagine how many files you'd need for a BD-ISO...
ReplyDeleteOh, and speaking of BD-ISOs, you probably saw this already, but somebody uploaded ISOs of all of the Blu-Ray Music Video Collections to Hello! Online's tracker a few days ago.
This isn't ideal for anyone... I think in the long run we'll all have to move to torrents or something. ):
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean it'll take longer before the 450p MM concert is available?
Do you know about torrent sites? Like what will happen to them or if they started to shut down?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing about this info, I'm kinda worried about what's happening.
This is an awful nightmare, 80% of those U.S. politicians are too old too care about internet; they are trying to shut it down because they are not users. I'm doing my own otaku boycott: I won't buy any american mp3,dvd or blu-ray. I can live only with japanese stuff
ReplyDeleteWas multiupload part of megaupload?
ReplyDeleteDamn...first youtube doesn't allow us to see up-front stuff and now we can't even share our fandom. This sucks.
^ I think about half of the sites Multiupload uploaded to are down now. Depositfiles, wupload and I think hotfile are still up but Filesonic, fileserve, megaupload and I think uploadking are down. Not sure about uploadhere and zshare.
ReplyDelete@Anon1: Yeah, I may have to use torrents more in the future. I'd rather not, but I don't think I'll have a choice.
ReplyDelete@FZed: You'd need about 200 .rar files for a BDISO lol.
Mediafire doesn't have an affiliate program (just in case you didn't know, Megaupload and most sites paid users if they generated a lot of downloads - and no I was not paid, it took much more traffic than Airiindeshou gets) so it should be safe.
Of course, Megaupload's problem was hosting illegal files, but what really got them in trouble was (knowingly) paying/rewarding its users for uploading those things, which is why so many filesharing sites have hit the panic button right now.
@Anon2: I'm actually done with that encode but I'm having troubles splitting the files (if you remember, all of my last bluray rips have had problems with the .rar files). But I could make a torrent and everything could be fine if that's what you guys want.
ReplyDelete@Anon3: The PirateBay was supposed to be shut down many years ago by the government but its still going strong so I wouldn't worry too much. The reason being is that torrent websites don't actually host the files on their site (it's the uploader who has the files), so they are safe, I'd say.
@Marco: Very true.
ReplyDelete@MiracleHappyLove: No, but as FZed said, most of the filehosting websites Multiupload used are now gone so there are big problems right now.
It's amazing that these sorts of things are what actually fuels a lot of the business and popularity of foreign artists overseas. Think about it... if it wasn't for sharing, how many of us Idol and H!P fans would actually be able to see these videos and experience these things... even the music.
ReplyDeleteI just can't. This is horrendous. Government like, hit the berserk button when the bill was finally protested. It's not like the industry is losing millions, and they're all millionaires anyway. Greedy and disgusting.
ReplyDeletethe big corp don't mind you share as long as you pay
ReplyDeleteI just scare that I can't hear and look H!P stuff again later.... Because I live the far country from Japanese and can't use Shop Online, like amazone
ReplyDeleteThere's one old filesharing site that I know, but user need to install some browser plugins to get better UL or DL speed. Take a look at Nakido.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how good Nakido these days. Haven't use it for a long time.
Myself I'm fine with torrents (actually prefer them, haha), though I understand that there are a lot of people who aren't as comfortable with them. But if you could up the concert there that would be amazing. *_*
ReplyDeleteTorrents please hehe
ReplyDeleteDear airii-n-deshou?!,
ReplyDeleteAlthough things look quite tough right now for filesharing, we (fans) want to tell you we will always continue to support YOU! I along with many fans do not want to see a post saying how you're going to shut down Airii-n-deshou?! So whatever happens, please remember your fans are out here to support you. So please try your best and lets hope for some kind of miracle for all of Hello! Project and its fans all over the world!
So...
Thank you for everything up until now!
Sincerely,
your fans!
Also, I'm totally good for torrents. They're easy for me.
ReplyDeleteI still prefer Mediafire to any other site.
ReplyDeleteIt's only filesharing site that I can download with more than 100kbps
Why don't just use some file splitter program or Winrar to split it when file size's more than 200mb?
@Anon1: Yeah, I think sharing files helps more than it hurts since like you said, it introduces people to things they normally wouldn't have known about.
ReplyDelete@Leia: And it seems to be getting worse and worse.
@Anon3: Don't worry too much unless the Japanese government starts doing things like this.
@Andy: Looks interesting, but if I do have to pick an alternative to direct downloads, I'll just use torrents. Thanks though~
@Anon4: Okay, I can put up the concert tonight or tomorrow.
ReplyDelete@Yasser96: Thanks for the awesome message. Neither I nor Chobineko are going to quit and/or shut down Airiindeshou so don't worry about that.
@Anon5: It's really annoying to do and maintain a bunch of split files (not to mention my PC currently freaks out every time I do that at the moment) so I'd rather not. And as all of this mayhem has shown us, it's not a good idea to keep everything in one website, which is why I prefer sites like Multiupload and MirrorCreator, which uploads to many filesharing sites at once. Are torrents better for you?
You should share by H!O torrents tracker.
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