Filesonic shuts down file-sharing capabilities

[Warrior522]

Okay then, time to buy a few dozen 2 terabyte drives and download ALL THE FUCKING THINGS!!!

 

[jalaneme]

We might as well download everything while we can.

i have 2 backups of everything so i am all good, only problem is hard drive corruption and that will be that.

 

[lukands]

Where did Filesonic host their servers.....if that perhaps matters?

 

[Sheimi]

Time to download what you can. :/

 

[Mindzpeed]

No my roms and my music At this rate an important part of me will fade away....

I dont want to pay taxes for importing things.

 

[spark1223]

It would safe to assume others may decide to disappear as well, I think megaupload was a scare to get this to happen so they don't need SOPA for piracy. I'll be a big video site will be next (other than megavideo of course).

 

[Hop2089]

Congress needs to drop dead in their sleep and be replaced.

Why not just shut down completely. How fucking useless is that. No ones going to use them anymore.
This is slowly making older VNs and animes a real bitch to find DDLs for.

Really hope Mediafire keeps intact.

If they completely shut down, people wouldn't be able to retrieve their important files, and at least now they can still act as a sort of storage locker...

AKA...be fucking useless, lol. It'd make more sense to get a external HDD, or use any other hosting site in the off chance you might want to distribute something.
Their drop in business is going to kill them regardless, they might as well go out with cash in their pocket, as opposed to bankrupt.

They should have just given a date for their closure, so people could retrieve any important files before then.

There are tons of sites that function the same way FIlesonic currently does. Them leaving it open to retrieve files is definitely not "fucking useless"

Read my last sentence. Obviously staying open so people can retrieve their files (and subsequently upload them somewhere less shitty) is a good idea, derpderp. But staying open in that state for an extended period of time is completely retarded. Unless they're going to turn around in a month and cease the restrictions, there's simply no point staying open. The cost would very likely either outweigh their profit, or they'd break about even (which isn't a good business model).

EDIT: and yes Foxi that's what I was getting at, I suppose I could have stated that, whoops, lol.

My reply highlights the idea that many sites function this way. It's basically an online way to store YOUR files. Don't have a flash drive on hand? Upload them to FileSonic and download them at the secondary computer. Many sites work this way and it's not "fucking useless" as you would put it.

You might as well use Carbonite instead or another more reliable storage service which just does file storage in the cloud.

 

[kthnxshwn]

You might as well use Carbonite instead or another more reliable storage service which just does file storage in the cloud.

I'm talking small files you need to transfer once or something you've just finished at home, but need at school. Being 2.5GB, you can't store it on your 2GB flash drive, so you need an alternative. In comes FileSonic.

 

[lukands]

Looks like Fileserve is doing the same

 

[Gintoki Sakata]

My input to this:

Filesonic basically shuts down itself

Q: Was it the right move?
A: Yes it was.

Q: Why?
A: Because common sense says it's simply not worth it to continue with their services, risking to experience the same fate of Megaupload. Filesonic has made millions of cash, why should they risk to lose it? It's better to shut down and enjoy life with their money, isn't it?

Q: How does the future of file sharing websites looks like?
A: Not so good. In my opionion they will be either shuting down their serices as well or at least remove their affiliate program. Since uploaders can't earn money anymore with sharing files, the number of warez links will most likely experience a huge decrease. After all, why should uploaders wasting their free time with uploading warez if they won't gain anything from it?

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

damn, this sucks. thanks a lot MPAA.

 

[Hop2089]

damn, this sucks. thanks a lot MPAA.

Sign the petition, the White House is doing a great job of cleaning house. Your signature will make a difference between Obama making Dodd resign and even go to jail for bribery and Dodd running free continuing his tyranny.

 

[Thomas83Lin]

^^Damn this blows, were can i sign the petition \link?

 

[Majorami]

I better re-download personal files that I keep on media fire before that one goes down too.

 

[Hop2089]

Go here

http://gbatemp.net/topic/319216-white-house-petitioned-to-investigate-mpaa-bribery/

 

[nl255]

Looks like Fileserve is doing the same

Where did you see that?

 

[Hop2089]

Almost all file sharing sites have closed their affiliate programs and 4shared has deleted multiple files.

 

[lukands]

Looks like Fileserve is doing the same

Where did you see that?

Uploader files disapperaing very quickly

 

[Gintoki Sakata]

Almost all file sharing sites have closed their affiliate programs and 4shared has deleted multiple files.

What file sharing sites?

 

[blahkamehameha]

it looks like the golden age of piracy is coming to an end