Who Pays for File Sharing Websites?

[Raika]

No. I don't want to pay, that defeats the entire purpose of piracy.

 

[GentleFist]

i hate usenet, not because its bad or anything i wouldnt know since i dont use it

but the advertising kills me, especially the fake links which are actually links to a register page for usenet...

typical example:
slow download
highspeed download (actually usenet register link and not a download link)

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Just joined a new uploading site, now I don't pay for downloads, but they pay me!

Now that's what I call awesome!

 

[dark ajax]

I prefer to use just the free services of those sites, i don't think it's worth paying and besides i'm not precisely a rich person or anything, so i have use my money for other priorities

 

[FAST6191]

i hate usenet, not because its bad or anything i wouldnt know since i dont use it

but the advertising kills me, especially the fake links which are actually links to a register page for usenet...

typical example:
slow download
highspeed download (actually usenet register link and not a download link)

Chances are you are speaking of the "usenext" adverts- they are widely and intensely disliked among the usenet crowd (much like ISPs provide access to the internet newsgroup providers provide access to newsgroups) for many reasons including those ads, poor cancellation options, less than stellar service, less than stellar servers and it goes on). A decent adblocking setup should sort them though.

BT does have a half decent (a little shy of 200k/second) usenet hookup through giganews though but I do pay for a usenet (got to love pricing in dollars) although strictly speaking usenet is an internet service like email when you break it down (not saying stuff does not go on there) rather than a file hosting site.

 

[_Chaz_]

Personally, paying to steal doesn't make too much sense to me.

 

[DeadLocked]

No but I will probably when I get my own place, only for a one off week or so every now and then. Megaupload is awesome I got up to 1.2 mb/s the other day and that is a LOT for the UK.

 

[fishykipper]

its all about the rapidshare premium here boys!
1000kb/s all the way!

 

[awssk8er]

Kind of. Well, my brother does and I use it.

Honestly... you cannot go back once you have it.

A Wii game that is ~5GB (Whatever is the size) downloads in about an hour to two hours. Also, it downloads straight from the servers so you're not seeding it.

Back when we used torrents, we would always get e-mails from our internet provider to stop downloading stuff, but since we got that over a year ago, we haven't received one.

Another great thing about it is if it's like a virus or something, it gets taken down really fast.

 

[gameboy13]

Well, in any way possible, I try to download games from Mediafire because they allow download accelerators. If my PC isn't too slow, I can reach speeds of about 1-1.5 MB/s.

 

[Joe88]

Kind of. Well, my brother does and I use it.

Honestly... you cannot go back once you have it.

A Wii game that is ~5GB (Whatever is the size) downloads in about an hour to two hours. Also, it downloads straight from the servers so you're not seeding it.

Back when we used torrents, we would always get e-mails from our internet provider to stop downloading stuff, but since we got that over a year ago, we haven't received one.

Another great thing about it is if it's like a virus or something, it gets taken down really fast.

a few private torrent sites do the same thing for free

 

[BoxShot]

Nope. I might for the faster speeds or for usenet if I had the money.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

I used to use a certain usenet server with it's own Java cliend and search engine, but I can get everything through torrents now.

BTW Usenet is awesome if youre trying to fill up your 360 collection fast.

 

[Infinite Zero]

Nah I dont really use filesharing websites unless it's important

 

[logical thinker]

No and I don't use this kind of site that frequently.

 

[Porygon-X]

No! I wouldn't pay!

 

[YayMii]

No, because my router is retarded (literally). On a bad day, it slows to 2 kB/s reguardless of where you're downloading from.

 

[Caligatio]

Some people have the time to wait, or they have enough else to seek so that the waitingtime isn't that long xD

 

[jlsyber]

I would if I could, but I can't so I shant

 

[Urza]

The main issue with bittorrent (and other broadcast p2p protocols) is that they're insecure by definition. "Solutions" such as PeerGuardian and forcing SSL client-side are nothing but snake oil. Any watchdog group for any company can easily monitor and record your activity, which depending on your country/province of residence can be a very bad thing.

This is one of the primary reasons I pay an (irrelevant amount of) money for usenet.