• MegaUpload returning Jan. 19th
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As much people said MU sucked I really enjoyed because even on a free account, I still got full speed.
I only missed Megaupload because since it got taken down, I've seen that piracy notice a million times. (Try to download old thing: It was uploaded to megaupload)
[QUOTE=Kartoffel;39262143]What I hated more is all of the download links for models that were lost when Megaupload was taken down.[/QUOTE] I feel like a massive swath of modding history got erased when the FBI acted as it did.. it sucked because I'd lost my yearly Gmod mod backup DVD's.
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] I mean, not really. Compared to most other sites, they always had really fast rates and I could easily download patches and whatnot.
[QUOTE=FreakyMe;39262327]I feel like a massive swath of modding history got erased when the FBI acted as it did.. it sucked because I'd lost my yearly Gmod mod backup DVD's.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Kartoffel;39262143]What I hated more is all of the download links for models that were lost when Megaupload was taken down.[/QUOTE] [Quote=Article] Dotcom is also excited because he and the EFF are working together to reclaim users’ data. If their efforts are successful, Dotcom says that files will be automatically moved to accounts on the new service for easy retrieval[/quote]
I would say I'm not affected by MegaUpload's shutdown, but very recently I've tried getting back into the mod scene for a few older game consoles, and the amount of MegaUpload links just burns me up. At least with RapidShare/any other host, there's a chance the file is still there. MegaUpload was like a doctor's appointment - nobody wants to deal with it, but we all have to at some point or another.
it'd be pretty amazing if they manage to get it back up so old links from before the shutdown worked again
[QUOTE=Mingebox;39262020]Seriously? A better investment than something that's used by possibly over 10% of the world's population.[/QUOTE] Do you pay any attention to the market? Are you seriously under the impression that Facebook has been a good investment?
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] hey now, megaupload was pretty good for mods, map packs and porn
[QUOTE=Dionysus;39262637]Do you pay any attention to the market? Are you seriously under the impression that Facebook has been a good investment?[/QUOTE] People forecast the stock price will rise pretty high, and it'd make a lot of sense, Facebook is in so many aspects of our lives, and makes so much money. I have no idea how the stock prices are dictated, but I have no idea why FB doesn't have incredibly high prices as it stands.
[QUOTE=ducklingqt;39262667]People forecast the stock price will rise pretty high, and it'd make a lot of sense, Facebook is in so many aspects of our lives, and makes so much money. I have no idea how the stock prices are dictated, but I have no idea why FB doesn't have incredibly high prices as it stands.[/QUOTE] You shouldn't be too surprised that your amateur speculation hasn't held up with reality. Facebook opened up with an IPO last year of $40, it is currently sitting somewhere around $30. Investors are losing confidence in Facebook because it's struggling to implement successful revenue generating services. As of now, the ad service on Facebook just isn't working. How many times have you clicked an advertisement on Facebook? Despite that, Zuckerberg and his company continue to come up with the most asinine revenue ideas. One of which you may have heard about recently; they're toying around with the idea of allowing users to private message Zuckerberg for $100.
Does this mean all the broken links on the internet will be fixed, or is Megaupload just becoming available for new uploads and all the old files are GONE?
Well, I wouldn't upload anything you care about or anything implicating, because this will get raided and shut down regardless of legality just like Megaupload.
[QUOTE=Dionysus;39262764]You shouldn't be too surprised that your amateur speculation hasn't held up with reality. Facebook opened up with an IPO last year at $40, it is currently sitting somewhere around $30. Investors are losing confidence in Facebook because it's struggling to implement successful revenue generating services. As of now, the ad service on Facebook just isn't working. How many times have you clicked an advertisement on Facebook? Despite that, Zuckerberg and his company continue to come up with the most asinine revenue ideas. One of which you may have heard about recently; they're toying around with the idea of allowing users to private message Zuckerberg for $100.[/QUOTE] I didn't really make the speculation that Facebook will rise, I just read that somewhere from people more professional than I on this subject. Well how does Google make a lot of money, they are heavily reliant on ads as well, and make sooo much money, so there is obviously a way of making a gigantic deal of money from ads, and I figure they'll find it someday soon on Facebook. But at the same time, it's possible they won't, but considering the company makes over a billion I figure they're alright.
[QUOTE=ducklingqt;39262834]I didn't really make the speculation that Facebook will rise, I just read that somewhere from people more professional than I on this subject. Well how does Google make a lot of money, they are heavily reliant on ads as well, and make sooo much money, so there is obviously a way of making a gigantic deal of money from ads, and I figure they'll find it someday soon on Facebook. But at the same time, it's possible they won't, but considering the company makes over a billion I figure they're alright.[/QUOTE] Context is important, Facebook's IPO brought in $16 billion. Netflix makes a ton of money off of movies, Blockbuster almost zilch. Likewise, Google has a completely different structure than Facebook and can incorporate advertisements into their services much more effectively. And that's not even considering the difference in talent between the engineers at Google and those at Facebook.
Any service that makes me wait more than 5 seconds so I can download is a piece of fucking shit Megaupload links was to me a bullet through the skull, though the download speeds weren't slammed like rapidshit personally it'd be better waiting 3 seconds
[QUOTE=Kuro.;39262029]Couldn't ICE or some other federal agency just compel ICANN to delist the site from the master DNS servers or whatever so no one can access it like they did that one time to some sites selling counterfeit merchandise?[/QUOTE] ICANN may operate root name servers, but the US government still owns the root file that the servers run. To understand this better I will explain how DNS works: You type in an address in your browser. In order for you to access it, the browser needs to know the IP Address of the server. It sends a packet to your DNS server asking the server if it knows the address. If your server doesn't, then the server will send a packet to the next DNS server asking it (Typically your ISP's). If that server also doesn't know it, then it is forwarded to ANOTHER DNS server. This goes on until finally it reaches a root name server. These are the highest you can go. If the domain isn't in the root file, owned by the government, then the root name server will report back saying that it doesn't exist. With DNS however, if one DNS server in this chain has the IP address of the requested website, then it transmits it to the server that asked for it. That server will add the record, and such forth so that in the future, attempts to access this website don't need to ask the root server, or the server that had it. That is why you can add your record to one DNS server and have it propagate to other DNS servers so other people can access it. So even if the government blocked it, or told ICANN to block it, name servers owned by private citizens or corporations, even ones that are not US Citizens, could still contain the records and it could still propagate through the internet. It is not feasible to control DNS this way. Not having a record won't work. There is however a "solution". It's called DNS Poisoning. It's when a record for a website has the wrong IP address with it. This means the DNS servers believe that they have the correct record, but will return the wrong IP Address meaning hosts will not connect. I don't think it would be possible to get a poisoned record to fully propagate the whole internet, but that would be the only way I can think of at this time you could blacklist a domain. Either way though, even with the DNS blocked, you can access it if you know the IP Address. For a little more clarification, there are only 13 root name servers in the world. 3 are owned by the US Government, 2 by universities, 4 by companies (some public, one non-for profit), 1 by a group of ISPs/Corporations/etc (RIPE NCC), 1 by ICANN, and the last one by a Japanese group (WIDE Project). Not sure if it is a company, don't believe so.
[QUOTE=Andokool12;39261846]Yeah honestly I never liked having to use megaupload, yet when it got shut down I still acted as if it actually affected me. I don't think I really care at all though. As a musician however I'm interested in megabox, if that's still a thing.[/QUOTE] Even if you hated megaupload it being taken down should be seen as affecting anyone in the internet community. Its never good when the government interferes with the internet.
[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;39263387]Even if you hated megaupload it being taken down should be seen as affecting anyone in the internet community. [I]Its never good when the government interferes with the internet.[/I][/QUOTE] Well that's debatable, but copyright and free speech definitely ISN'T what the government should dick around on the internet because of.
If this means Icefilms stops being shit again then im in
I wonder if it will have filesize limits, if it does it'll be useless to me. Most likely not, but you never know. Box's 25GB offer looked good on paper until I realized I could only upload images and some shit
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] Not sure if trolling or being serial.
just wonder if old files will go back up or if this is separate. if old files aren't coming back i don't care
[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;39264654]just wonder if old files will go back up or if this is separate. if old files aren't coming back i don't care[/QUOTE] Did you even read the article or this thread? He's working with lawyers on getting the files back.
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.haz.de/var/storage/images/haz/nachrichten/medien/netzwelt/kim-dotcom-und-der-groessenwahn/17706273-1-ger-DE/Kim-Dotcom-und-der-Groessenwahn_ArtikelQuer.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Diago21;39261944]Are you kidding? You had to wait ages to download a file and the speeds were shit unless you had premium, literally almost every service was better. IMO Mediafire is the best.[/QUOTE] 15 seconds and I regularly downloaded 1gb parts of whatever version of Linux I was playing with at the time in 20 minutes so maybe I just got lucky.
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I hate every single one of these filesharing services and wish we could find a way to make less-sought-after files available on P2P services Or it'd be nice if everyone agreed on using only one filesharer so I could get the most out of buying an expensive membership with a shady service to stop them from throttling my speed.
[QUOTE=Kuro.;39262029]Couldn't ICE or some other federal agency just compel ICANN to delist the site from the master DNS servers or whatever so no one can access it like they did that one time to some sites selling counterfeit merchandise?[/QUOTE] No because even though the NTIA can control the root zone, under the constitution, it would be illegal. NTIA has "ultimate authority" but they have IANA which is run by ICANN manage it and Verisign maintains it. It is really confusing.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;39264819]I hate every single one of these filesharing services and wish we could find a way to make less-sought-after files available on P2P services Or it'd be nice if everyone agreed on using only one filesharer so I could get the most out of buying an expensive membership with a shady service to stop them from throttling my speed.[/QUOTE] You seem to be running solely on illusions. Personally I'm glad Mediaupload is back because it's just about the only place that served large files, didn't remove them over time and had consistently really good download speeds.
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