I actually bought a "premium account" for a download site.

...more specifically FileServe.

Yes; a lot of people here can sympathize with me, downloading huge ISOs (and ROMs) behind those download sites that require you to put in a captcha, then wait some more for your ticket, then download only one part of an ISO at a time for quite a long time with no opportunity to resume the download, then wait some more time until you get a ticket to be able to download another part.

Since I was going to download a lot of ISOs (Wii and PSP), and I recently acquired a PayPal account, I decided to just take the plunge. I bought a 30-day premium account for around $10 on FileServe (since most of the ISOs are hosted there).

So far, I have no regrets. I mean, I can actually download more than one part at time! I got Dokapon Kingdom in around 2 hours (which would have taken about 8 or more the old way)! I am downlading de Blob right now, things seeing that I can have the whole thing before midnight! :yaywii: (By the way, I have around 200 GB of hard drive left, so do not worry.)

If you have a lot to download at once, then this would be worth the dare. (Your results may vary by download site, however.)

P.S. I am going to buy very cheap Dvorak sticker for my keyboard. The "homebrew" ones are wearing out,holes appearing at the "e" and "t" stickers.

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BlueStar
[quote name='_Chaz_' post='3473715' date='Feb 23 2011, 09:43 PM']Paying for piracy?

You might as well just buy the damned thing.[/quote]

Flashcards, blank DVDs/CDs, media players, mp3 players, dual layer DVD burners, micro-sd cards, an internet connection that's far too fast to be needed for non-piratey usage... There's usually SOME investment needed to pirate, I don't see what's wrong with paying a small amount for something like a newsgroup, rather than wasting your upload speed and advertising to the hundreds of other strangers on your supposedly 'private' torrent that you're distributing pirate software.
 
Fat D
[quote name='BlueStar' post='3473726' date='Feb 23 2011, 10:48 PM']Flashcards Homebrew and unofficial enhancements, blank DVDs/CDs can be replaced by drive emulation, media players legitimate media, mp3 players see before, dual layer DVD burners backup creation, only devices available, micro-sd cardsuseful as general-purpose storage device, an internet connection that's far too fast to be needed for non-piratey usage...like video streams and downloading Linux distros There's usually SOME investment needed to pirate, I don't see what's wrong with paying a small amount for something like a newsgroup, rather than wasting your upload speed and advertising to the hundreds of other strangers on your supposedly 'private' torrent that you're distributing pirate software.[/quote]
As you can see, there is always either a reason to have it before you decided to go the pirate route or a decent substitute. The same, however, holds true for file hosters as well, as a content creator might use that as a distribution tool for his products.
 
_Chaz_
[quote name='BlueStar' post='3473726' date='Feb 23 2011, 04:48 PM'][quote name='_Chaz_' post='3473715' date='Feb 23 2011, 09:43 PM']Paying for piracy?

You might as well just buy the damned thing.[/quote]

Flashcards, blank DVDs/CDs, media players, mp3 players, dual layer DVD burners, micro-sd cards, an internet connection that's far too fast to be needed for non-piratey usage... There's usually SOME investment needed to pirate, I don't see what's wrong with paying a small amount for something like a newsgroup, rather than wasting your upload speed and advertising to the hundreds of other strangers on your supposedly 'private' torrent that you're distributing pirate software.
[/quote]
Touche, sir.
 
Recorderdude
[quote name='Guild McCommunist' post='3473707' date='Feb 23 2011, 04:39 PM']Never really found a need for paying for a premium account on upload services. I'm pretty patient so using JDownloader works fine for me when I use direct downloads.[/quote]

QFT
 

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