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Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by userbinator »

anewpasserby wrote: post #70
userbinator wrote: post #45

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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 root" seemed to be a cornerstone of it. The warez/cracks scene was essentially the same thing, and yet if you knew where you were getting things from, it was quite safe. The antipiracy groups have since been spreading plenty of FUD (and some possibly attaching malw…

Why are you using the past tense, as if software piracy didn't exist anymore? People in my country pirate everything (including Android apps and games).

I'm using past tense to contrast it with today where the amount of spam/(true) malware-filled content around, especially for popular apps, is much higher than it was before.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by entrop13 »

pakled_engineer wrote: post #69
micro-ram wrote: post #61

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You are using a spot instance right?

I am, and it doesn't cost much at all just sometimes there's problems with builds you have to manually track down I'd rather pay a flat monthly fee somewhere and get x amount of builds/bandwidth if possible. Build time is around 14mins only + the few minutes to repo source + few seconds to run my script that yoinks the junk from Android and the kernel.

care to share that script?

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by entrop13 »

ForHackernews wrote: post #65
hobs wrote: post #58

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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.

> There is no write and forget media as far as I can tell. Sure there is, you just micro-engrave it onto a nickel disc with a laser... http://blog.longnow.org/02009/05/21/what-13500-pages-micro-e... Edit: Also paper. Low-acid paper in dry cabinets keeps a long, long time.

also the m-disc is a dvd/blueray that lasts 1000 years

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by pervycreeper »

userbinator wrote: post #45
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…

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 root" seemed to be a cornerstone of it. The warez/cracks scene was essentially the same thing, and yet if you knew where you were getting things from, it was quite safe. The antipiracy groups have since been spreading plenty of FUD (and some possibly attaching malw…

>The antipiracy groups have since been spreading plenty of FUD (and some possibly attaching malware to releases, I don't know) and working with the AV/security industry to make you believe otherwise, however.

Isn't this racketeering?

Furthermore, AV programs which classify keygens, etc. in similar categories as keyloggers/ adware, etc. (such as Microsoft Security Essentials) also have a net effect of increasing malware prevalence by training users to ignore AV warnings.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by thizzbuzz »

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…

the same is true within the styles of music that I like. It was compounded by the fact the other centralized file hosts, like Rapidshare and Mediafire, were forced to delete TONS of content on the same day that Megaupload folded.

There are many obscure demos, rehearsals, etc. that disappeared from the internet and most haven't reappeared since. I knew some bloggers who had uploaded probably in the range of 5000-10000 old metal demos, and these guys were careful to not post copyrighted material, but it seemed like if they got even a single strike against their account, everything was deleted.

I hope someone imaged those servers, otherwise a lot of that content might be lost forever.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by neotek »

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 wonder if it's feasible to build a hosting site that strictly forbids (and actively removes) copyright infringing material, intended more for this kind of file hosting than for piracy.

Monetising would be a challenge, since rapidshare et al mainly made money by selling premium accounts, which are generally only attractive for piracy purposes.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by slang800 »

vacri wrote: post #16
thisjepisje wrote: post #10

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"Reasonable", not "absolutely infallible".

Unseeded torrents are pretty common, especially for less popular items.

In my experience, unseeded torrents are less common than Rapidshare links that have been removed by their user or taken down after being reported.

However, I've never gathered statistics on it, so this is purely anecdotal.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by bitJericho »

avn2109 wrote: post #75
fencepost wrote: post #71

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It's not clear to me how this differs qualitatively from the current situation with equipment manufacturers all doing their own customizations to devices. Quantitatively there's a difference - a smaller pool of devs/maintainers to potentially subvert and a much smaller pool of potential users vs. a much larger manufacturer dev team and a much larger potential pool of users. How much would it cost to buy off, for exam…

When you put it like that, it seems inconceivable that the alphabet agencies in various countries didn't do this years ago.

Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
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