Nothing new, but might as well share the updates on filehosting sites’ status.
MegaUpload – Closed.
FileServe – Closing does not sell premium.
FileJungle – Deleting files. Locked in the U.S.
UploadStation – Locked in the U.S.
FileSonic – The news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
VideoBB – Closed! would disappear soon.
Uploaded – Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost – Deleting all material (so will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
Videoz – closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
4shared – Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire – Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI
Org torrent – could vanish with everything within 30 days “he is under criminal investigation”
Network Share mIRC – awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrent everything.
Koshiki – operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA.
Shienko Box – 100% working china / korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA
ShareX BR – group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA
It is the end of the world as we know it.
A silly comment imo but it’s a popular one recently. Whatever, knowing the internet, something will pop up.
Lets hope Thepiratebay won’t fall.
We shall see whether the pirates can survive the pirate attacks. We still a month or so of Mediafire access left.
In a couple of months to year you can add mediafire, wupload, and rapidshare is definitely going on their. Hey, just saying: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145919516/other-file-sharing-sites-were-not-megaupload
Wouldn’t surprise me if they also went down. Look like after all these years, NOW the Internet Police is taking action. Let’s enjoy Filehosting while it lasts.
i watch anime on crunchyroll but i dont think we can rely on them to get all the new anime. so i am forced to use the other websites.
even if they are closing, anime websites will probably find a way to continue what they are doing.
i hope more people will use crunchyroll so they can get more licenses.
I have a personal grudge with the CR community, which is why I quit and eventually formed this blog. In any case, I’ll only return to that site as a last resort. CR and Niconico are our last hope for anime goodness should Filehosting sites be eventually taken down.
This really sucks. I’m going to miss mediafire, and not even for anime, but mods of games I play and such that should in all reality be perfectly fine to keep up, because they’re uploaded by the creators of the mods, for players. Goodbye internet freedom. If torrents should come to their resting place as well, it’s going to suck hardcdore.
Hopefully something good will happen and filehosting/torrents will live on no matter what happens to Mediafire and other torrent sites. I personally doubt either of the two will come to an end.
I do hope that is the case. I don’t want to go back to living in the 90s, or 80s because the government won’t stop trying to take our freedoms away.
Huh? the 90′s were really strict? How so? How long has the government been trying to take away our freedoms anyway? I thought they began going all out again after 9/11. Who am I kidding? They’ve been at it for a long time.
The 90s weren’t strict, they just sucked in terms of availability to the commoner. I had Windows 95 and AOL.. and right-click saving pictures was the biggest form of piracy next to that one music site, Napster. I’m just very happy the internet has changed so much since I first found it.
Fuck this. It’s definitely the end of the file-sharing era. Back to torrenting.
For now, it looks like that’s how it’ll be.