Filesonic shuts down file-sharing capabilities

[Hells Malice]

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

Not really. Torrents are a better medium anyway. This may very well just strengthen them. But I really, really doubt every site will be closing down. It's just going to be a pain in the ass finding a DDL for the time being.

 

[Majorami]

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

Not really. Torrents are a better medium anyway. This may very well just strengthen them. But I really, really doubt every site will be closing down. It's just going to be a pain in the ass finding a DDL for the time being.

They're a "better" way to download, but not the best for piracy 100% of the time. IPs are open and many rather than private and secure like HTTP download sites. Torrenting a movie makes it hell of alot easy for your ISP to profile you and send you stern warnings via email to stop (they'll contact the billholder's email). Not all ISP's actually police like that but some do and the threat is of being dealt with via law is real. I've gotten an email just 2 months ago after torrenting like 10 GB of movies, so they are watching.

And yet I download 15GB in a single day of PSP games via HTTP, and apparently I'm safe.

Anyways, although P2P downloading such as torrent is better/more effecient, it always isn't the safest, atleast when piracy is concerned depending on your ISP's policies and how they enforce them.

 

[blahkamehameha]

This may be leading a little away from the topic, but don't ISP's who catch you downloading a movie or something via torrents usually give you a "knock it off" warning first?

 

[Fellow]

This may be leading a little away from the topic, but don't ISP's who catch you downloading a movie or something via torrents usually give you a "knock it off" warning first?

My ISP did, I'm using Comcast.

 

[stomp_442]

I don't think that any ISP cares what you download. You pay their bills. But when a copyright holder makes a complaint to your ISP, then by law the ISP has to give the copyright holder your private info. Usually the ISP gives you a warning, probably because the copyright holder told them to. But my guess is that if you keep pissing off the copyright holder, then more serious action is taken. I got a warning letter from my ISP, so I quit doing torrents all together. I think that the main point of the warning letter was, that I was making copyrighted materials available for download.

 

[Hells Malice]

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

Not really. Torrents are a better medium anyway. This may very well just strengthen them. But I really, really doubt every site will be closing down. It's just going to be a pain in the ass finding a DDL for the time being.

They're a "better" way to download, but not the best for piracy 100% of the time. IPs are open and many rather than private and secure like HTTP download sites. Torrenting a movie makes it hell of alot easy for your ISP to profile you and send you stern warnings via email to stop (they'll contact the billholder's email). Not all ISP's actually police like that but some do and the threat is of being dealt with via law is real. I've gotten an email just 2 months ago after torrenting like 10 GB of movies, so they are watching.

And yet I download 15GB in a single day of PSP games via HTTP, and apparently I'm safe.

Anyways, although P2P downloading such as torrent is better/more effecient, it always isn't the safest, atleast when piracy is concerned depending on your ISP's policies and how they enforce them.

I forgot some poor bastards actually have ISPs that care.
Shaw could care less what I download, haha. Me and two others in my household pirate stuff quite frequently. My dad and sister pirate quite a few movies, and I pirate tons of games/software. Been doing it for years upon years, not a single peep from 'em.

It's a better method, you just need to fill certain...requirements, to make full use of it, I suppose.

 

[Majorami]

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

Not really. Torrents are a better medium anyway. This may very well just strengthen them. But I really, really doubt every site will be closing down. It's just going to be a pain in the ass finding a DDL for the time being.

They're a "better" way to download, but not the best for piracy 100% of the time. IPs are open and many rather than private and secure like HTTP download sites. Torrenting a movie makes it hell of alot easy for your ISP to profile you and send you stern warnings via email to stop (they'll contact the billholder's email). Not all ISP's actually police like that but some do and the threat is of being dealt with via law is real. I've gotten an email just 2 months ago after torrenting like 10 GB of movies, so they are watching.

And yet I download 15GB in a single day of PSP games via HTTP, and apparently I'm safe.

Anyways, although P2P downloading such as torrent is better/more effecient, it always isn't the safest, atleast when piracy is concerned depending on your ISP's policies and how they enforce them.

I forgot some poor bastards actually have ISPs that care.
Shaw could care less what I download, haha. Me and two others in my household pirate stuff quite frequently. My dad and sister pirate quite a few movies, and I pirate tons of games/software. Been doing it for years upon years, not a single peep from 'em.

It's a better method, you just need to fill certain...requirements, to make full use of it, I suppose.

I use Charter, they appear to care. Its still a great service. 2.5 MB/s speed-wise. But if I want to watch a movie or download an import game, I generally have to use HTTP. Though I'm not a big movie fan. Just TV Shows and Games.

PSP games are among the only files that I do download that are oftern multi-archive now since MegaUpload is down, so its not like I really miss torrent.

 

[Vigilante]

Mediafire and other torrent sites are still alive.
Still nothing to worry about.

 

[Westside]

Damn it, I paid for a 3 months subscription. My favorite wii iso sharing site used filesonic...

 

[klim28]

Anti-anti piracy peeps haha

Hoping Mediafire stays alive

 

[xist]

It's funny....elimination of a massive amount of filesharing didn't require an act like Sopa or Pipa. All it takes is one MASSIVE court case with years of prison time as a potential penalty....filehosts are dropping like flies.

 

[BoxmanWTF]

o_o
you're kidding me...
I JUST found chd dreamcast games on filesonic and THIS HAPPENS?!!

Spoiler

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[abel009]

fileserve joins the club, ur unable to download from their site no more,,fuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[Valwin]

fileserve joins the club, ur unable to download from their site no more,,fuuuuuuuuuuuu

nvm your right damn good thing last night i was feeling that fileserv was next so i download my Zone FLash collection from it

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

fileserve joins the club, ur unable to download from their site no more,,fuuuuuuuuuuuu

Just noticed, as well

 

[abel009]

fileserve joins the club, ur unable to download from their site no more,,fuuuuuuuuuuuu

Just noticed, as well

Fuck, fileserve was my second choice behind megaupload, the internet is dieing slowly

 

[HiroshiYamauchi]

Don't be so dramatic guys, i'm sure that there will be better, safer and mode reliable forms of piracy...i mean, file sharing in a near future. It has always been like this...when a door closes, a new one opens.

 

[shakirmoledina]

to my knowledge this is only one remaining and that is wupload. if it goes out then no more obvious piracy on the internet.
though i can mention filejungle as a famous host along with hotfile.