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Why 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?
by cmelbye 15y ago
Why 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.