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I made an easy to use service for this purpose, up to 100 MB upload. Within weeks it was a hotbed of .rar files with very questionable content so I shut it down

• jcr 15y ago
  Which jerks? The jerks stealing creations from creators? i.e. you consider intellectual property laws to be fair and violation of these laws to be theft from the creators. -or- The jerks stealing creations from the public? i.e. you consider the imaginary property laws to be corrupt and the existence of theses laws to be theft from the public. Though often an unpopular opinion, these days, both sides are jerks. The idea of a "short-term and temporary COMPROMISE for the advancement of the useful arts and securing the rights of the public" was lost a very long time ago.
  • 0x12 15y ago
    The service was not intended for any copyrighted content, just as an easy way to pass files from one person to another that are too large for an email. So, the 'jerks' would be those uploading any kind of copyrighted content, but especially those that figured this was an easy way to create a child porn file exchange. Apparently I'm too naive to think ahead.
    • jcr 15y ago
      > Apparently I'm too naive to think ahead. Call it a lesson learnt, and don't feel to bad about it. After all, you are in excellent company; forgetting to prevent abuse by default can be found in inventions like email, ftp, usenet, www, javascript and countless other "successes" of technology.