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• Jan 22, 2012

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After Megaupload's end, now no more downloads from Filesonic!

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** personally."

Which site is next? Rapidshare? Hotfile? Fileserve? etc...

 

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• Jan 22, 2012

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stewie1980 said:

After Megaupload's end, now no more downloads from Filesonic!

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** personally."

Which site is next? Rapidshare? Hotfile? Fileserve? etc...

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Sad times indeed... I can't shake the feeling of impending doom.

 

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• Jan 22, 2012

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So, yoou could send yourself data, but not to your friend, they shor themself to the foot with that.

 

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• Jan 22, 2012

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f*ck me in the ass, I was just in progress of re-uploading everything I lost with MU shut-down to Filesonic.

I gues RS and MF are the only respectable hosts left.

 

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• Jan 22, 2012

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one after another they end by destroying all shared file.
Fileserver,also deleting all material,so I just have to wait to see how it ends everything, although I fear that those who lose will be us.

 

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• Jan 23, 2012

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The end of the internet is nigh - thank you fucking US Govt you bunch of, well. cunts.

Here's how some websites are reporting it:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/filesonic-shutters-another-file-sharing-site-bites-the-dust/67670

FileSonic shutters: Another file-sharing site bites the dust

By Zack Whittaker | January 22, 2012, 3:51pm PST

Summary: Only days after the Megaupload website was taken offline by U.S. authorities, similar businesses are scrambling to protect themselves before any action is taken against them.

File-sharing site FileSonic has announced that it is has disabled “all sharing functionality”, and that its service can “only be used to upload and retrieve files you have ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** personally”.

The company’s Facebook page has also disappeared. According to users on Reddit, it is believed that many accounts and files were deleted today.

It is thought that this measure has been put in place in response to the wider crackdown on file-sharing sites by U.S. authorities.



http://www.prefixmag.com/news/filesonic-disables-file-sharing/60803/

R.I.P. FileSonic & ** DEAD LINK REMOVED **.to

4:49 p.m. · January 22, 2012 · by Andrew Martin

So you have no doubt heard about the insanity surrounding the shutting down of MegaUpload, particularly the wild story about how the file-sharing website's founder was arrested in high fashion. Well, this has all clearly spooked other file-sharing services, including FileSonic. If you go to its homepage, you're greeted by a message that reads: "All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** personally." Not only that, but ** DEAD LINK REMOVED **.to is no longer available for use in the U.S.

Wow. Do you think anyone else will fold in light of the ongoing witch hunt? And could a major player like Mediafire go under?

 

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• Jan 23, 2012

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not only are we losing, this affects internet companies and their prices,I think that that have sought this is not an end to piracy,This moves much money, and what they seek is staying that market.

 

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• Jan 23, 2012

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Well this kinda looks like there has bin somekind of verdict in the legal battle between a group of webmasters and rapidshare and hotfile,a battle that has bin going on for more than ayear now...seems the freehosters lost...so now they can take on any freehost I guess...trust me...megaupload and filesonic won't be the last to go......hahaha this almost thinking about me going torrent...lol...witch I don't like btw...

 

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• Jan 23, 2012

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At Fileserve the same story now:

"FileServe can only be used to download and retrieve files that you have ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** personally."

And like friend26 in post #5 says almost everything is deleted.

Is this America's new war? After the 'War on drugs' and 'War on terror' now a 'War on downloading'???

And with the decision filesonic and fileserve made they have dug their own graves. Who will use those sites now?

 

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• Jan 23, 2012

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More are going down

It's like a disease spreading through the internet. Who will be left - Russian sites are going to take off in a big way.

http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-ecosystem-shocked-as-big-players-take-drastic-action-120123/

Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action
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In the wake of last week’s Megaupload shutdown, some of the biggest names in the market are taking drastic action. During the last 48 hours many sites have completely withdrawn their systems for paying uploaders when their files are shared with others, but one of the most dramatic moves came first from Filesonic and today Fileserve. Both services now forbid people from downloading any files they didn’t upload themselves.

While the shutdown last week of Megaupload and the arrest of its founder and management team was certainly dramatic, a situation of perhaps even greater gravity is beginning to emerge.

Over the past 48 to 72 hours, the operators of many prominent cyberlocker services have been taking unprecedented actions that can not simply be explained away by mere coincidence. The details in the Megaupload indictment clearly have some players in the file-hosting world spooked.

One of the key allegations is that between 2005 and mid 2011, Megaupload ran a program that rewarded users for uploading infringing material. A cited internal email allegedly shows staff members discussing cash payments going to people uploading “full popular DVD rips” and “software with keygenerators (Warez)”.

Although Megaupload stopped paying out rewards in July 2011, that didn’t stop the site from getting raided. Other cyberlocker services are clearly hoping they will be more lucky.

Last evening Filesonic, a top 10 player in the file-sharing world with a billion pageviews a month, not only withdrew its affiliate rewards program, but also banned any third parties downloading files. Simply put, users can now only download files from the service that they ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** themselves.

But according to reports, there’s no guarantee of that. Account owners report that their files are being mass deleted, that’s if their entire account has been banned already.

Fileserve, another leading player, also ended its affiliate program this weekend. Additionally, this morning TorrentFreak received news that Fileserve has now joined Filesonic in banning all 3rd party downloads.

“I just paid for a premium account and can now only download my own fucking files an unlimited number of times,” said one angry user. “What use is that?”

Other users of Fileserve are experiencing an even further degraded level of service. Reports describe mass deletion of their uploads and the banning of accounts on apparent ‘Terms of Service’ violations.

But the changes at these two services appears to be just the tip of a very big and very complex iceberg. Developments at other file-hosting services are widespread.

As previously reported, ** DEAD LINK REMOVED **.to banned all US IP addresses in what appears to be an effort to distance itself from US jurisdiction. Its affiliate program is still listed as operational but the same cannot be said about those run by some of its competitors.

VideoBB and VideoZer have both reportedly closed their rewards program and according to reports have also been mass deleting accounts and huge numbers of files.

Other sites closing their affiliate programs and/or deleting accounts/files include FileJungle, UploadStation and FilePost.

Another interesting development involves so-called ‘release blogs’, sites that report on leaked material but either provide links to the material on cyberlockers or allow their users to do the same. The number of overall releases hasn’t changed much but the links currently being posted on some of these sites show less variety and volume than they did this time last week.

Do you know of other file-hosts/cyberlockers taking similar action? Send us your stories and screenshots to the usual address.

Update: Smaller host UploadBox calls it quits. “All files will be deleted on January 30th. Feel free to download the files you store with UploadBox until this date.”

Update2: Another host, x7.to, shuts down.

Update 3: TorrentFreak has seen evidence that on request PayPal is refunding cash paid to Filesonic over the weekend.

Update 4: FileJungle and UploadStation have disabled all 3rd party downloads.

Update 5: 4shared cancels affiilate program.

 

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• Jan 23, 2012

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Funny thing is that according to the evidence on this vid, the mass media companies that bribed the US gov to make this bullshit law come to pass, are behind much of the distributing the filesharing software(ie limewire and kazaa): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc

It's gotta be great being a senator or an executive on a board of a mega media company, huh? They get away with this crap while the general public has to pay.

 

Last edited: Jan 23, 2012

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• Jan 23, 2012

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Could all this be a backlash from the 'industry' because of the US congress rejection of SOPA?

 

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• Jan 24, 2012

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This truly sucks. First Megaupload now Filesonic. They also stopped Limewire before. It feels like the whole world just came crashing down.

The Mayans predicted that the world will end 21 December 2012 but it looks like it has arrived sooner.

 

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• Jan 26, 2012

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damn first megauplaod now filesonic what are we gonna do now.

 

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• Jan 28, 2012

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could this be the beginning of the end for the celebrity videos section of nudecelebforum:very sad: