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Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by pikachu_is_cool »

izolate wrote: post #39
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.

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.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by Jolijn »

userbinator wrote: post #50
danudey wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Which is an outdated version.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…

I honestly don't understand why more people don't create Github accounts and use that to distribute, or at least use their ISP's free web space. The (pseudo)anonymous aspect of not having a fixed identity which could easily be linked to something else is both convenient and valuable to privacy?

Github is very handy for someone creating a portfolio and showing off a history of their programming skills. But you could get the pseudo-anonimity with a separate Github account. It's just not worth the effort, the public of these hacks doesn't demand it.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by pgeorgi »

chii wrote: post #108
rakoo wrote: post #106

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I'd expect a team like xda-developers to run a seed of their content; it's the best way to make sure it is still available.

the point is that a service like rapidshare doesn't cost the user any money (and instead, get ads). Running a torrent server is expensive, and require dedicated hardware too. You can't really seed from the webhost after all.

You can seed from regular webhosts - as long as it's a regular http query to a regular http server, not some temporary http query hidden behind several layers of interstitial ads for the premium account.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by pgeorgi »

wmf wrote: post #97
ratsmack wrote: post #64

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I've often wondered if Freenet, or a similar encrypted network file system would be a viable solution. This, of course, requires a significant number of computers to contribute full time.

AFAIK Freenet is basically a cache with no incentive system, so content will expire. There are some cryptocurrency-oriented storage projects but they all seem to be in way over their heads.

In Freenet content will expire unless it's accessed regularly. If you want to make sure your files are around, just poll them every other week (which may or may not be already supported by the software), which is a simple "proof of work" scheme: As long as you care, the files are reasonably safe to be around. When you (and everyone else) stops caring, they'll slowly disappear in favour of more popular stuff.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by tokenizerrr »

repomies69 wrote: post #95
danudey wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by onli »

SyneRyder wrote: post #72

Even 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?

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by icebraining »

neotek wrote: post #87
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.

There's no such thing as "copyright infringing material", it depends on how has uploaded it. If I download an awesome ROM from megaupload using the link shared by its creator and upload it myself to megaupload to get my own link, the very same file is both infringing and not infringing copyright.

This is what people who were appalled that megaupload would only remove one of the links to a deduplicated file, instead of removing the file itself, failed (or refused) to understand.

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by DangerousPie »

hueving wrote: post #51
res0nat0r wrote: post #23

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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.

Lawyers neither make nor enforce the laws. If you want to blame someone, blame the lawmakers...

Re: RapidShare is Shutting down

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Post by Xylakant »

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.

I'm certain you can use travis-ci for that purpose.
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