Beware...train of thought meanderings...
With Filehosts dropping like flies over the last couple of days it really begs the question what the future of this service provision is going to be. Megaupload was being chased down for countless things, amongst which the apparent fact that they never deleted flagged content, but instead just stored it all away and deactivated reported links. Alongside the claims of laundering, suspicious emails and a super duper search engine the wolf is at the door of the MU offices. However, at this point does it make sense for the extreme measures that these other companies have taken if they are generally doing what they say they're doing....merely storing files and taking down all reported content? The case against Kim Dotcom and co looks like it's going to drag on which would imply Megaupload will be offline for a while, but does that mean the other companies will be cowering for that long? If so how can they cope with the sudden loss of revenue? Surely any extended closure spells the end for these various file hosting companies.
The other issue is that if MU is by some means saved from the guilty charges and gets off scot free, would people feel comfortable going back to it after the FBI seizure? Are what about using all the other providers? Assuming that MU goes down and this triggers the end of the cyberlocker sharing phenomenon, it seems beyond belief that all those people accustomed to downloading whatever the want will just stop without looking for an alternative....so i'd assume that a great number of people will turn to torrents and the associate risk involved.
However, many of those people will never have used any form of bittorrent before...with this sudden crack down on piracy isn't the consequence of this a lot more of the "3 strikes" letters being sent out, scaring more people into submission? Personally speaking, whilst i understand how to use something like MU or RS, i've never used any form of peer to peer software...no Limewire, no Kazaa, No Utorrent, Nothing...and i can't be the only one given how long Filehosts have been around.However, the scare stories about public trackers seems to indicate that unless you have experience in Torrents and are part of a private group you're screwed unless you have some kind of ultra tuition on how to torrent correctly. Additionally, many people don't feel happy with the idea of uploading content in peer to peer transactions...something i can sympathise with and part of the reason i'd never want to use torrents...
But that's not going to stop all those people accustomed to "free stuff"...so assuming they switch to the next best option for them, are we to assume the future of file sharing is hundreds of ISP letters and groups of people with access to private resources. If so what's the future for those people not already within those groups? If Cyberlockers are gone for good does that spell the steady decline of salty "digital sea" dogs?
*Usenet ignored for the simple reason it's not free and many people have no idea about it...hell i have virtually no clue about it beyond vague details...
With Filehosts dropping like flies over the last couple of days it really begs the question what the future of this service provision is going to be. Megaupload was being chased down for countless things, amongst which the apparent fact that they never deleted flagged content, but instead just stored it all away and deactivated reported links. Alongside the claims of laundering, suspicious emails and a super duper search engine the wolf is at the door of the MU offices. However, at this point does it make sense for the extreme measures that these other companies have taken if they are generally doing what they say they're doing....merely storing files and taking down all reported content? The case against Kim Dotcom and co looks like it's going to drag on which would imply Megaupload will be offline for a while, but does that mean the other companies will be cowering for that long? If so how can they cope with the sudden loss of revenue? Surely any extended closure spells the end for these various file hosting companies.
The other issue is that if MU is by some means saved from the guilty charges and gets off scot free, would people feel comfortable going back to it after the FBI seizure? Are what about using all the other providers? Assuming that MU goes down and this triggers the end of the cyberlocker sharing phenomenon, it seems beyond belief that all those people accustomed to downloading whatever the want will just stop without looking for an alternative....so i'd assume that a great number of people will turn to torrents and the associate risk involved.
However, many of those people will never have used any form of bittorrent before...with this sudden crack down on piracy isn't the consequence of this a lot more of the "3 strikes" letters being sent out, scaring more people into submission? Personally speaking, whilst i understand how to use something like MU or RS, i've never used any form of peer to peer software...no Limewire, no Kazaa, No Utorrent, Nothing...and i can't be the only one given how long Filehosts have been around.However, the scare stories about public trackers seems to indicate that unless you have experience in Torrents and are part of a private group you're screwed unless you have some kind of ultra tuition on how to torrent correctly. Additionally, many people don't feel happy with the idea of uploading content in peer to peer transactions...something i can sympathise with and part of the reason i'd never want to use torrents...
But that's not going to stop all those people accustomed to "free stuff"...so assuming they switch to the next best option for them, are we to assume the future of file sharing is hundreds of ISP letters and groups of people with access to private resources. If so what's the future for those people not already within those groups? If Cyberlockers are gone for good does that spell the steady decline of salty "digital sea" dogs?
*Usenet ignored for the simple reason it's not free and many people have no idea about it...hell i have virtually no clue about it beyond vague details...