there are dozens of ways to share a single file, no doubt a new way will be re-invented soon enough to combat all this silly censorship and tracking bullchocolate

(23/01/2012 07:38 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Servers were mainly in the US.

A number were, though the servers that weren't got raided too.

(23/01/2012 07:48 PM)Kuu Wrote:  No mention of IRC, Newsgroups or FTP?

Newsgroups mentioned in first post.
IRC and FTP are unlikely going to be widespread due to it almost entirely being a central server (where the operator actively supplies content).  Besides, DDL from the server seems to be much sensical - I don't know why some people go to the effort of setting up IRC when a transfer over HTTP would be little different.

(23/01/2012 07:48 PM)Kuu Wrote:  Damn wippersnappers and your MegaFileShare sites. In my day such sites were trivial and unneeded. Now a few go down and they act like it's the end of file sharing.

As long as the corps have the cash to lobby, it's not going back to the old days unfortunately.

(23/01/2012 08:06 PM)trademark91 Wrote:  Actually they seized it because it had a .com address, which is technically a US domain.

If SOPA was out, then possibly, but sites like ThePirateBay use a "US domain" (.org) and, despite having been constantly targetted by the media corps, still exist.

(23/01/2012 08:57 PM)beaner2k6 Wrote:  there are dozens of ways to share a single file, no doubt a new way will be re-invented soon enough to combat all this silly censorship and tracking bullchocolate

No doubt about that - I was asking what people think would be the actual method.

(This post was last modified: 23/01/2012 09:00 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

(23/01/2012 08:59 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(23/01/2012 07:38 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Servers were mainly in the US.

A number were, though the servers that weren't got raided too.

Just host somewhere that isn't a pro US western country, and you should be fine.

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(23/01/2012 09:10 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  

(23/01/2012 08:59 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(23/01/2012 07:38 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Servers were mainly in the US.

A number were, though the servers that weren't got raided too.

Just host somewhere that isn't a pro US western country, and you should be fine.

One does wonder about the bandwidth of those though.  Peering tends to be sh*t in those places.
Or just go to North Korea.

Personally, I think there'll be a stronger push on encryption, whatever the medium.

(This post was last modified: 23/01/2012 10:26 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

(23/01/2012 10:26 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Or just go to North Korea.

North Korea's new secret plan to take over the world by taking over the internet by controlling all your files.  Kim Jon Un will live up his name as the Supreme Leader.  Eventually he will overthrow his grandfather and become the Eternal President of the RepublicUniverse.

(This post was last modified: 24/01/2012 02:19 AM by Assassinator.)

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