So, what comes after File Hosts?

[jayfella]

I think this thread is a pot-kettle. The traffic generated to start this website is originally from katz, a warez-related website. Advertisements that pay for the server now are either from file-hosts or warez-related services. You are part of the problem you state you are against.

On topic though, im not entirely sure, but I am sure that warez will never die. If you charge too much for beer, people sell counterfeit beer. If you charge too much for "brand" clothes, counterfeit clothes become popular. Until they charge what the consumer deems a "reasonable price", warez will never die. It will just go further and further underground until people start charging ?5 for a disc full of goodies from a friend of a friend.

[Gregt]

There has been some form of "Warez" since computers became somewhat mainstream. I remember trading 5.25 floppies with friends with different software on it. Later on you could use your 1200 baud (1.2kbit/s) modem to dial into a "BBS Service" hosted in someones basement and download Warez. I remember spending about 2 weeks downloading a 3 meg game.

Warez isn't going anywhere, although the distribution may change and once again become somewhat of a hassle to deal with. Will have to wait and see.

[CuraHack]

I'm working on something completely new, and private

Stay tuned...

[starchrist]

Honestly, inspiring myself on what shareshiz said so beautifully about prostitutes, when a mac or a local Columbian drug dealer living at an official adress gets caught, doesn't another one emerges soon after the one is busted ? It's a vicious cycle... and it will never end...

I think both private torrents, filehosts and encrypted P2P will still survive till a next way to share - maybe decentralized - like you said may emerge.

Whatever will be the laws, human intelligence will always find out a technical way to share something data, knowledge or political opinions, whether it's legal or not... I think as some of you, we need a global license for media contents. I'm a former musician, and at first i thought internet was the cause of quality loss in the record business and it's certainly what makes me interested about that way of sharing media. So the only solution is for media corporation to pirate themselves to reduce the real piracy lol

And yes people will pay, so no more mythical stars and storytelling, just music, movies makers still living well but without millions.. don't cry on them lol

I mean everything you do is political indirectly, and if you earned money from counterfeiting lady gaga's records, i think it's a very good action for future generations...lol And that greedy bitch will still be rich at the end of the day... SO WTF? The Coal era is over, Oil will die in 40 years and they still want to suck every tiny drop off it... They outdated and the people knows it, that's why they don't buy records anymore, not because of piracy.

Technology is a hard drug many drug free people can't live without. I remember once in my country, there was violence all across the country because of 2 young kids electrocuted in a transformator to hide from the policemen who seek them... A very serious study has proven that the climax of these event could have been linked to shortage of cannabis in the projects... And when you think of it, it might make sense...

Crisis, unemployement, Banks and Finance robbing innocent people instead of big corporations...
If a copryrighted file is somewhat like a jack daniels copyrighted whisky bottle, imagine what a digital prohibition could be for the states??? It will always be worse....

What an epic era, isn't it? My country has know WW2, my grand parents too, their generation has fight for better working conditions, the right to have payed hollidays, pension and so on...

[ShareShiz]

well said starchrist

[ph3n!x]

new filehosts will come for sure..

[starchrist]

Hum... I wasn't talkin' about that....Indirectly but that's not what it is all about... Read the tread title please ...

[foxman]

Wow! see the thread start date! elight predicted this would have 6 months before!

[matt3799]

Reading over this entire post has been very interesting to me. There appears to be 3 different general opinions by people. Number 1 - file host will make a comeback eventually and everything will return to normal. Number 2 - the file host scene as we know it is coming to an abrupt end, but warez will live to see another day in some other form. Number 3 - the US government has now officially claimed the internet (insert Al Gore joke here), and they will attempt to make stiff punishments which in turn forces this all underground. Now personally I lean with a mixture of 2 and 3. History will repeat itself and warez will find another way back, but I feel this time the fight may get a little bit ugly. It will probably play out a lot like when the MPAA was suing every personal p2p user under the sun. But as we already saw with that, scare tactics don't work when used that blatantly, they just make public outrage. I just question in my mind how long and how much will it take for the public to wake up and see the MPAA/RIAA for who they are. If all the outrage from SOPA/PIPA was also directed in the form a boycott of the MPAA/RIAA, it would finally effectively send a message to their greedy overfilled wallets.

Anyways, I would love to suggest the next model that should be used mainstream at least temporarily. I have been impressed after seeing it used by psxhaven (dot) com. What they do is spread out multipart archives in emails, the email inbox space then effectively becomes a file host. You then can create as many emails as you need for server space. The best part being it's all very streamlined with this Mail Resender program and it's about 10x faster than normal non premium file host. I know the flaw is there is not as much incentive for uploaders, but I'm sure someone could make a profitable system for that. And shockingly people don't jump in and change the password, I think there is something done that prevents it. At that point what options do the feds have, to shut gmail or yahoo down? That's not going to happen.

[chrishdman87]

The second a decentralized p2p system is created and used on a large scale, many of the rich corporations here in the US will kick and scream at congress & do whatever it takes to have ISP's police everything its users do. Same to the rest of the world.

Mark my fucking words, p2p will always be under attack.