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It's not very convenient to go back to transferring files to clients via email. Now that files can be 4GB or more it's a real problem in fact. This culture of f
by droithomme 15y ago
It's not very convenient to go back to transferring files to clients via email. Now that files can be 4GB or more it's a real problem in fact. This culture of fear the US is creating is damaging business and work.
- cmelbye 15y agoWhy are you going back to transferring files via email? Are MegaUpload and "filesonic.com" the only methods of transferring files other than email or something? Ever heard of Dropbox?
- c0n5pir4cy 15y agoDropbox sharing doesn't always suit me, especially when I need to sent really big files to clients, these files tend to linger and take up Dropbox space. Dropbox is brilliant for teams working together though.
- tedsuo 15y agoYou should check out yousendit, it's like megaupload but without the network effect so it can't be used for piracy.
- iamandrus 15y agoOr MediaFire, or RapidShare, or even Box.net.
- dangrossman 15y agoI would be hesitant to use the first two right now. They're heavily used for very visible piracy.
- xxqs 15y agorapidshare is a Swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here. but for corporate file sharing, i would recommend renting a VPS and organizing some simple SSH-based copying with FileZilla, for example. Or some HTTP-based sharing if you want.
- HalibetLector 15y agorapidshare is a swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here. Tell that to the pirate bay.
- waitwhat 15y agothepiratebay is Swedish, not Swiss.
- spdy 15y agoNone of them are sitting in jail right now.
- xxqs 15y agoyou may need to figure out the difference between Swedish and Swiss
- xxqs 15y agoEurope is a country and everyone speaks french there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI :)
- xxqs 15y agowell, to be precisely true, Sharereactor was run by a Swiss guy, and it was indeed torn down by the police. But the guy did not get in jail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor but Sharereactor was designed for exchanging movies illegally, whereas rapidshare tries to be different :)
- ibrow 15y agoAnd what is to say that Dropbox doesn't get the fear and disable sharing too? After all, if a user is sharing a file, they could be pirating a movie and for that Dropbox could be shutdown.
- thomaslangston 15y agoDropbox has one protection against that, they have very small public share bandwidth quotas per file. So a single file can be downloaded by a dozen people, but not a hundred. This makes it very ineffectual for the type of wide-spread piracy other file hosting services are subject to.
- aprescott 15y agoAn interesting take on the file sharing service that I've used occasionally is http://justbeamit.com/ http://justbeamit.com/ which opens a direct connection between you and the recipient. If you close the window before the file is transferred, the transfer gets cut. It may not be great for large files because of upload speeds, but it can be quicker and easier than Dropbox for transient one-offs.
- SageRaven 15y agoReminds me of this little service I used briefly before the Napster shit hit the fan. For the life of me, I can't recall the name, but it was a directory of links (mostly MP3s at the time) and the client appeared to be a SMB client which connected directly to individual PCs for files. Man, I wish I could remember the name of that program. Hell, if this file-sharing take-down shit keeps up, we'll end up on USENET again. Better yet, TOR will finally go mainstream.
- jiggity 15y agoI use kicksend. It's like email, but just for files. It has an inbox that you use to look at read / unread / sent messages.
- Iv 15y agoUse bittorrent. I am very serious, it is well designed for that, especially if you are sending to several people.
- chc 15y agoThis is just not realistic in most cases. It's hard enough to get people to understand "Click on the FileSonic link". Normal people do not have Bittorrent clients installed. I'd try FTP before Bittorrent.
- te_chris 15y agoThey've just released "share", works fantastically - seems to be a combo of BT and S3.
- olifante 15y agoHow about a link? "Share" is to vague a word to google.
- icebraining 15y agoI find your lack of search-fu disturbing ;) http://www.getshareapp.com/ http://www.getshareapp.com/
- nextparadigms 15y agoHow about this one: http://sendoid.com/ http://sendoid.com/ From the site: What is Sendoid? Sendoid is an on-demand peer to peer transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link! Where do my files go? Directly to the recipient. The peer link provided after selecting a file connects the recipient directly to your machine. Files never touch or pass through our servers. They say it's also AES encrypted. I've never used it personally, just heard of it before and I remembered it now.
- white_devil 15y agoI wonder how that guy makes money though.
- tikhonj 15y agoIn my happy, isolated world, this has long been done through scp/git. Of course, I understand that this does not scale, has some issues and won't work for technically uninclined people. But it's still an option in certain cases (e.g. for college students).
- pyre 15y agoI'm unclear what git has to do with 'sharing files with clients.' I'm pretty sure he's not talking about sharing a source repository with clients. On the other hand, scp could work. There are various visual scp/sftp clients for Windows.
- tikhonj 15y agoThat really depends on your clients :)
- zaroth 15y agoWhy not get an S3 account, upload the file, make it public, and share the link? Amazon will charge you a few cents for it, or maybe even nothing if you stay within their free tier.