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Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by hueving »

res0nat0r wrote: post #23
Karunamon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah. As mentioned before, they were a great place to store all manner of random files. During their golden age, having a place to put random "stuff", especially large files, was a killer feature. The problem was their new model completely precluded sharing of any kind. Imagine Drive or Dropbox, but without the ability to give links to your files, and you can see how useless the service became. You don't out-dropbox D…

Lawyers didn't really ruin this, RapidShare banking on piracy to sustain their business model ruined their business.

Well piracy wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for the lawyers.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by jsprogrammer »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #6
throwawayaway wrote: post #5

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torrents are a reasonable solution for sharing those kind of programs.

Not really; nothing guarantees that someone keeps seeding them forever.

Nothing guarantees that anything keeps serving files forever. BT at least distributes responsibility and allows anyone to easily keep the files hosted.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by RayLau135 »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #21
curiously wrote: post #12

man I had the most amazing time with Rapidshare during the 2007~2009 era. I remember being in an all you can eat candy store. Same with megaupload. Stuff you couldn't find anywhere were popping up, old vintage rare tv shows, games, magazines. The monetary incentive provided an explosion of content you couldn't get elsewhere. I will really miss the golden era of filehosting services.

There should be a public list of cool stuff on RapidShare. That way, people can sift through all the pr0n/Disney movies and start archiving this stuff in a distributed sense. That way, the artifacts aren't lost forever.

There was load of blog sites which kept posting up new stuff with links back to Rapidshare in the footer, but older page just ended up have dead links as the content got deleted.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by RayLau135 »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #21
curiously wrote: post #12

man I had the most amazing time with Rapidshare during the 2007~2009 era. I remember being in an all you can eat candy store. Same with megaupload. Stuff you couldn't find anywhere were popping up, old vintage rare tv shows, games, magazines. The monetary incentive provided an explosion of content you couldn't get elsewhere. I will really miss the golden era of filehosting services.

There should be a public list of cool stuff on RapidShare. That way, people can sift through all the pr0n/Disney movies and start archiving this stuff in a distributed sense. That way, the artifacts aren't lost forever.

Google used to be able to index Rapidshare so you could just search for files on via Google

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by mikegioia »

stusmall wrote: post #11
nezza-_- wrote: post #4

When Megaupload (and some other sharehosters) died, quite a lot of interesting things just disappeared from the net. I'm talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The 'big' ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel/ROM for your G1/ADP1 you are mostly out of luck. It's sad that there's basically no way…

>I'm talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The 'big' ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel/ROM for your G1/ADP1 you are mostly out of luck. This is something that has always sketched me out about the Android rooting and moding scene. "Download this suspect binary from rapid share and run it as…

I bricked my Samsung GS3 (SPH crappy one) doing just that. 8 hours off-and-on of random binary / flashing and on the 9th hour, bricked. Horrible, horrible experience.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by hobs »

btown wrote: post #14
saganus wrote: post #13

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This is an interesting idea. It would work kind of like an escrow, right? Where the "release/publish clause" could be tied to copyright expiration or other legal events like you say. The problem I see is, how do you filter/reject the amount of stuff you would have to store without even being public? AFAIK, the IA has issues storing so much of the already-public data, so storing "dark" (non-public/unpublished) stuff w…

Would tape storage, a la Amazon Glacier, be an efficient way to archive these, since they don't need to be accessed except with an offline process?

Tape needs to be taken care of just like anything else via re-tensioning and the like. There is no write and forget media as far as I can tell.

Ninja edit: That is not super price prohibitive.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by jhchabran »

danudey wrote: post #46
stusmall wrote: post #11

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>I'm talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The 'big' ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel/ROM for your G1/ADP1 you are mostly out of luck. This is something that has always sketched me out about the Android rooting and moding scene. "Download this suspect binary from rapid share and run it as…

It's the same with things like game trainers, save editors, etc.. Sign up and give your e-mail address to this forum so that you can see the download link for this file. Which is an outdated version. The new version is in another forum thread on a separate forum, but you have to register to see links. The link is to a rapidshare download page, which rest assured is totally legit. I honestly don't understand why more…

Trainers, save editors, translations are basically a common entry point into programming, like a closed knit group of people that love video games and who wants to modify/hack/translate their favourites games. At some point, programming comes to the table and people will start sharing knowledge about it with their own way of doing things. A popular project will get hosted somewhere and the following projects will get hosted there too, simply because they're learning by looking at the popular one. Rapidshare, megauploads, all of these are tools people know before getting into programming, so they just use it. Github is something that comes later, if things get serious.

Dwarf fortress stuff is like that, Minecraft is even worse, you get adfly in the middle :D

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by aravan »

I was doing research on anti-piracy, torrent kills all the file sharing portal more than government. File share portals comes directly under law of punishment for hosting and sharing infringed content. Torrent is a general public, mass, there could be many ways to protect innocence against strict law. Hoping that rapidshare made enough money, may try to leave the shit off and spend their time on vocation.

These all hall of fame, rise and fall of empire, giving way innovations and technologies.

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