R.I.P. Filesonic
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- prophetone0
they were forced to disable sharing, clever
- mikotondria30
So, if they're going after these filesharing, copyright-infringement-factilita... sites, and taking them down, using current laws on extradition and governance, why did they need/want SOPA/PIPA ?
- Because they wouldn't even need to arrest anyone to take the sites down, Hollywood would just have to make 1 phonecallanimatedgif
- differenz0
Filesonic, one of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, has taken some drastic measures following the Megaupload shutdown and arrests last week. In addition to discontinuing its affiliates rewards program and not yet paying accrued money to members, the site has disabled all sharing functionality, leaving users only with access to their own files.
- BusterBoy0
Dropbox next?
- Dropbox doesn't allow mass sharing anyway, it'll be fine.animatedgif
- ukit20
Uploaded.to RIP as well
- autoflavour0
yeah, who needs SOPA when everyone just bends over voluntarily ..
- utopian0
With all of the spam here, QBN is next!
- ukit20
"So, if they're going after these filesharing, copyright-infringement-factilita... sites, and taking them down, using current laws on extradition and governance, why did they need/want SOPA/PIPA ?"
The way I understand it...charges against Megaupload is a complicated criminal case that has been over a year in the making. SOPA would give them the power to simply block your access to these sites without having to prosecute a case against them.
SOPA would also allow them to block access to any site that links to download sites. Sites like rlslog.net and sceper.eu that make it easy to browse through the latest stuff.
- moldero0
letitbit.net too, they just killed my account
- ukit20
Mediafire and Rapidshare have said they have no plans to close down
- monolith0
"Megaupload was making a ridiculous amount of money with a ridiculously bad service,” Labian said. “We frankly don’t see ourselves in the same space.”
Yep, you just keep thinking that. If they win with Megaupload they will shut down ALL file sharing services.
And MediaFire and RapidShare are also doing exact same thing as MegaUpload did.
But here's what's most likely going to happen. These websites will do things like upload.to did and just exclude US completely.
They'll still continue serving the rest of the world but people in US won't be able to use any of these services. In the end, this bullshit will cost us accessibility to these services and will not prevent anything.
- here's to US starting to look like Chinamonolith
- hahaha, True. Closed doors to the USA, welcome to the free world.pillhead
- How do you spell PROXY ?
Do these people understand the basics of networking and teh interwebz; everythingeverywhere...mikotondria3
- BusterBoy0
Where the hell am I going to download all my porn from now?
- ukit20
@monolith
If you look at the stuff they accused Megaupload of, it's not as simple as "file sharing." Part of the issue was that they operated an affiliate program which according to the government's case was incentivizing people to drive traffic to illegal links. Filesonic and Fileserve both had affiliate programs like this too, while Mediafire and Rapidshare didn't.
I'm not saying they are 100% safe but the line has to drawn somewhere. I don't see how the government can make all file upload services illegal. That's a basic function of the web.
- ukit20
In a statement, RapidShare's CEO Alexandra Zwingli enumerated the ways in which RapidShare is different from Megaupload, pointing out first that RapidShare is set up in a much more transparent way than the Mega empire, and under the actual names of its founders. "RapidShare AG was founded in Switzerland and in fact, it was always located at the address given in the company details and was always run under real names without any anonymous intermediate businesses. The radical measures against Megaupload were apparently required since the situation there had been totally different."
Zwingli said RapidShare is "an absolutely legal service—like Swisscom or YouTube", with services comparable to Dropbox, and doesn't offer a rewards system like Megaupload did for frequently downloaded files. "We act rigidly against copyright infringement," Zwingli asserted, and added that the company has "established a constructive dialogue with politics and society in the United States and in other countries."
Raimer said the MegaUpload raid wasn't about file sharing itself, but the alleged criminal actions of the company's staff. "As far as I can tell, the allegations are based on their closed eyes to the pirate scene, and that they financially supported (pirates) and uploaded infringing content themselves. If they turn out to be true, then law enforcement had to go this way."
- moldero0
fileserve.com
looks like their screwing their paying customers to save their own necks, so they might last a little longer, just don't sign up with 'em.- > 2012
> Paying to steal things
ISHYGDDTanimatedgif - lolmoldero
- > 2012
- moldero0
another 1 bites the dust:
http://fileserve.com/ < they sucked anyway
"FileServe can only be used to download and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally. "
- handle0
since when did freedom become free shit I dont have to pay for?
- pillhead0
That 1% are starting to get annoying.