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We got a glimpse of what life would be like with free access to culture. I hope to see such a rich community again soon.
Three words. Private torrent trackers.
The content on trackers drops off sharply with popularity. That was what made file-hosting services special. You could find something only three people cared about in the past year.
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#123To me Rapidshare was a very shady place to be full of warez, never visited, never cared. good riddance
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#124RapidShare was my childhood hero!
I think appearance of google drive/dropbox is the main reason of this. People easily share data with them.
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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 Which is an outdated version.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…
>Dwarf fortress stuff is like that
dffd exists for things that aren't github(etc)-appropriate such as tools. No real reason to use anything else unless you're trying to monetise it with adf.ly etc (which might also count as a reason not to download).
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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 why I have stopped believing that "The Year of the Linux Desktop" would even be a good thing. Android has "regular old joe sixpack" users by the millions, but has the Android community actually benefited from that? The existing "desktop linux" community has their act together far more than the Android community, despite (or because of?) not having those legions of unskilled users.
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#127Even as an indie software developer, this makes me sad. Rapidshare was the most responsive to copyright complaints out of all the filesharing sites, they took down links within 2 hours of being reported. But instead of nuking cracks to my software on Rapidshare immediately, it meant I let the Rapidshare links stay alive longer, because I knew I could turn them off whenever I wanted. I'd rather people uploaded cracks…
> (and since much of the time, customers never understood that cracks don't come from the company that makes the software). I never saw that. Even when I was young, that was something obvious, and I never heard someone else mention that he beliefs cracks come from the company making the original software. Where is that coming from? Is that your impression because you get support requests for cracks?
Yup, I get some support requests where I have to explain to the customer that they never bought the software. They'll tell me the Photoshop Tutorial they downloaded my software from, inevitably with a link to a Rapidshare download. They're not looking at URLs and might not even understand they're downloading from a different website to the tutorial. Some have told me they got my software from "a Photoshop Tutorial that you advertised your software on". Ugh.
It's worth noting that while I have customers of all ages, many are older / elderly (many in their late 60s and a few in their 80s & 90s). They're not the most tech savvy, they don't understand the cracking scene & some need a lot of time-consuming handholding. Often wonderful & friendly folks, but they don't grok computers the same way the usual Hacker News reader will.
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#128When 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…
When MP3.com was shut down, I shed a tear :-( It was an amazing collection predating the YouTube's of today.
The second and third albums I bought in my life were from mp3.com. That site had a huge impact on where I am today (teaching music, playing in a band). The people who bought it had a responsibility to keep that music alive. It's a shame they didn't. Some of that music is lost forever.
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> It's all very sketch. To me it seems very simple: level of effort. Uploading your hack/mod/whatever to rapidshare takes about one minute, or less. On the other hand, if you want to learn about git and github, you have to spend plenty of time on that.
Not true. You can make a nearly empty github repository with a few clicks and start adding releases to it.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted but you're absolutely right. You can create a new repo, click on "releases", click on "draft new release". Type in the description in markdown (easier than HTML) and upload a binary attachment, hit publish.
Zero knowledge of git was necessary. Oh and also if you want to edit that README.md? You can do it from inside Github too, still zero need to know git.
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> It's all very sketch. To me it seems very simple: level of effort. Uploading your hack/mod/whatever to rapidshare takes about one minute, or less. On the other hand, if you want to learn about git and github, you have to spend plenty of time on that.
Not true. You can make a nearly empty github repository with a few clicks and start adding releases to it.
You /can/, but it's not a use case that github pushes or that people who don't know github would think of. With rapidshare et al you go to the site and it has a big obvious "upload and share a file" button right on the front page.