Several 1-Click-Hosters Shut Out USA/Disable Sharing

[Friendly]

Seems the raid on Megaupload is having the desired effects. Filesonic has disabled file sharing (you can only download what you personally uploaded, and http://www.uploaded.to is no longer available for people with US-American IP-numbers.

Several others have followed suit, mostly blocking American users.

[Never_Scurred]

Emule and private trackers ftw.

[Leandro]

Fileserve just did the same thing. I want my internet back.

[Jonathan Ingram]

Some of the sharing services that have been affected so far:

FileServe
FileSonic
FileJungle
UploadStation
Megaupload
Wupload
4Shared
Uploaded.to
FilePost

Some of the above have been closed, some have become unavailable in particular territories, some have been closing accounts/deleting files, some have limited their functionality in other ways.

[Gus]

That sucks. Hopefully they'll be back once the shitstorm completely blows over.

[Friendly]

some have become unavailable in particular territories

As far as I can tell, "particular territories" = USA.

[Skykid]

some have become unavailable in particular territories

As far as I can tell, "particular territories" = USA.

This is the end, my friends.

[maxlords]

Hopefully this encourages other countries to cut the US out of a lot of things. Let them be isolationist and let the rest of us be rational/reasonable.

[Moniker]

Hopefully this encourages other countries to cut the US out of a lot of things. Let them be isolationist and let the rest of us be rational/reasonable.

canada sux lol

[Casey120]

News/Usenet ,


what else !

[Friendly]

How long until someone sets up a distributed and de-centralized system with 256bit-encrypted package distribution via shared bandwidth in the vein of The Onion Router?
What will they do if there are no servers and no way to tell what anyone is transferring? Pull the plug on the entire internet?

[Skykid]

How long until someone sets up a distributed and de-centralized system with 256bit-encrypted package distribution via shared bandwidth in the vein of The Onion Router?
What will they do if there are no servers and no way to tell what anyone is transferring? Pull the plug on the entire internet?

Although what you speak of is like sci-fi to me (never heart of the Onion Router) I'm really intrigued. I always imagined a stealth internet could be established but I didn't know the infrastructure already existed. Can you explain a bit more about how it works (in laymans terms if pos? )

[Aliquantic]

Onion routing is a technique for secure communications (most notably used in Tor right now, which is very
handy if you need to avoid monitering of any kind), but the problem is it's highly inefficient in its current implementation, and not completely, 100% guaranteed failproof... though again Tor comes reasonably close, but its bandwidth and purpose aren't really for downloading random material, so you might want to look at something like the Japanese Perfect Dark and similar networks instead for now.

[Skykid]

Onion routing is a technique for secure communications (most notably used in Tor right now, which is very
handy if you need to avoid monitering of any kind), but the problem is it's highly inefficient in its current implementation, and not completely, 100% guaranteed failproof... though again Tor comes reasonably close, but its bandwidth and purpose aren't really for downloading random material, so you might want to look at something like the Japanese Perfect Dark and similar networks instead for now.

Thanks, just googled Tor and Perfect Dark. Very interesting. It's good to know that there's a way of giving internet freedom back to the average joe. The technology will obviously improve too, and after the US gets an internet circumcision there will probably be lots of new options cropping up.

Thinking about this though, if bills like SOPA and PIPA went through, and such stealth networks are set up to allow private sharing to continue, etc, it would really only be the big corps like Google, Facebook and Youtube being burned - everyone else would just find a way to carry on as usual.

[Gus]

Perfect Dark is an awesome source for Japanese porn. Not a whole lot else worth grabbing on there, though.

[Teufel_in_Blau]

What will they do if there are no servers and no way to tell what anyone is transferring? Pull the plug on the entire internet?

To answer your question short: yes.

Source:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/11 ... rs_seized/

You can pretty much do anything by only mentioning CP.

[Damocles]

"Our service is currently unavailable in your country. Sorry about that."

Oh fuck that noise. ...and I don't even use it.

[drauch]

Good lord...I'm still waiting for Depositfiles, Oron, and hotfile to go MIA.

[Estebang]

Probably not much longer before they go after torrents. Pirate Bay has apparently disabled some stuff and changed how downloads are handled to increase security.

The last refuge for pirates will have to be Usenet/IRC.

Seems like all the publicity of SOPA has been more damaging than the act itself would be.

[Ex-Cyber]

Onion routing is a technique for secure communications (most notably used in Tor right now, which is very
handy if you need to avoid monitering of any kind), but the problem is it's highly inefficient in its current implementation, and not completely, 100% guaranteed failproof... though again Tor comes reasonably close, but its bandwidth and purpose aren't really for downloading random material, so you might want to look at something like the Japanese Perfect Dark and similar networks instead for now.

The Freenet Project has been working on the "publishing/downloading various files anonymously without wasting bucketloads of bandwidth and creating unnecessary bottlenecks" problem for ~10 years now and it's still hit-or-miss in some respects. It's a hard problem.

The last refuge for pirates will have to be Usenet/IRC.

I doubt any given IRC network or Usenet provider would be much more resistant to government takedown than MegaUpload was. There aren't a whole lot of "real" Usenet providers left, so I could see a MU-style takedown of one leading to a similar domino effect. The bigger IRC nets seem to basically rely on the generosity of network admins. Even if you're willing to buy/lease your own server and pay for transit, a lot of providers ban IRC by name in their Terms of Service (as it tends to attract DoS attacks from kiddies trying to take over channels).

[Khan]

oh hai giganews its been a while since we last talked, sorry for cheating on you with those filthy 1 click filehosting sites I miss your par files and would like to rejoin you and your rars :p

[Never_Scurred]

oh hai giganews its been a while since we last talked, sorry for cheating on you with those filthy 1 click filehosting sites I miss your par files and would like to rejoin you and your rars :p

I don't get the rationale of paying a monthly fee for filesharing.

[Friendly]

How long until someone sets up a distributed and de-centralized system with 256bit-encrypted package distribution via shared bandwidth in the vein of The Onion Router?
What will they do if there are no servers and no way to tell what anyone is transferring? Pull the plug on the entire internet?

Although what you speak of is like sci-fi to me (never heart of the Onion Router) I'm really intrigued. I always imagined a stealth internet could be established but I didn't know the infrastructure already existed. Can you explain a bit more about how it works (in laymans terms if pos? )

It's how Aliquantic explained it. For further info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28ano ... network%29

The main weakness of Tor is of course that it depends on servers. A de-centralized system using the shared bandwidth of its users would be better, because then it couldn't simply be shut down by switching off a server.

[shmuppyLove]

The first refuge for pirates will always be Usenet/IRC.

Fix'd

[njiska]

Well this is just annoying. I depended on these services for my itunes rips of MLP episodes. No one seems to post them on torrent sites or on Usenet. Being outside the US i can't even legally buy them. Nationalized copyright is out of date.

Hopefully this blows over fast.

[Specineff]

The optimist side of myself wants to believe this will push for the creation of file-sharing methods that are harder to take down than megaupload.

Not holding my breath, though.

[GaijinPunch]

Perfect Dark is an awesome source for Japanese porn. Not a whole lot else worth grabbing on there, though.

I was wondering if anyone watched Japanese porn.

[evil_ash_xero]

Perfect Dark is an awesome source for Japanese porn. Not a whole lot else worth grabbing on there, though.

I was wondering if anyone watched Japanese porn.

I have some, but most people try it out, for the hot chicks...but quickly get bored by the "AIEEEE!!!!".

[drauch]

Perfect Dark is an awesome source for Japanese porn. Not a whole lot else worth grabbing on there, though.

I was wondering if anyone watched Japanese porn.

I have some, but most people try it out, for the hot chicks...but quickly get bored by the "AIEEEE!!!!".

Yeah, I can only watch like 2 Japanese porn stars without feeling awful.

[evil_ash_xero]

Yeah, I can only watch like 2 Japanese porn stars without feeling awful.

I don't feel "awful", because...well, I'm not really buying it. Sometimes you can even see them smirking at their own antics. That being said, it's annoying, and very NOT sexy.


QUESTION: Can they ever do anything like this to torrents? That's a concern. This whole MU thing is annoying...but what do you expect really? You can't fuck with "the man", that much, and not expect to get burnt. It's just kind of...surprising that they just flexed their muscles a bit, and everyone went running like little girls. I guess all that net machismo doesn't count for much, when messing with the feds.