The Storm!

Шторм настал! будем смотреть упадёт ли файпост..
насчет крыс хорошо сказано
FILEPOST тоже нагнулся, но сейчас вернулся.

In what appears to be a reaction to the Megaupload incident - the megaupload takedown by Feds, Filesonic has disabled the sharing of files. The implication is that all the Filesonic links on Avaxhome are essentially dead to everyone "but the uploader".

Also if you are thinking of complaining, Filesonic has also put in place some terrible loopholes that allows them to basically do whatever they want, when they want and you, the user, cannot complain about it. Have a look at their Terms page. Check out the section "No Warranty" and see "Modifications to Agreements, Policies or to our Services"

"brigantine of freedom "AvaxHome" still with you!"

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

:)

Shame on them!

I have just payed for 6 months!

I want my money back!

Secure files without sharing?

I guess they never heard about a coded usb flash pen, which does not use internet.

This is the start of a HUGE battle...

Good luck for everybody!

what is the best on the 2 choices ? :)

I think I will go with uploading. And wouldn't trust Filepost (owned by Fileserve, if it's true), they have just disabled my account.

to Mitsu
Personally ...uploading better than filepost.. ;)

Crusader, you are wrong, Filepost isn't owned by Fileserve, just believe me.

Can filesonic uploaders post their account details so we can log in and download their files? After all, this is the end of FS so there's no point holding back now - is there?

Artist14, but their interface looked the same and I read it on other sites, anyway, switched to uploading.com for the time being.

Sum-Guy, that won't do any good, they will kill the accounts in no time.

kongo127, if you paid with Paypal, hurry up and file a complaint, you should get your money back.

Sum-Guy, interesting idea, but I don't think that will work. Account sharing is not allowed and after logging in from few different IPs that account will be banned.

So they got one file server ok next.
Remember Napster.The video I just watched on you tube about what happen to Megupload is
a joke. They might go after the people who supply but the people who downloaded the files
are NOT in trouble.

I just paid for a month on filesonic... Is this just a temporary thing (I know stupid question)? I am trying to get HR rips of records I used to have years ago and I don't own a record player any more. Once I discovered Avaxhome and the Vinyl HR section, I was hooked. Guess it was short-lived. This is depressing.

I have paid for filesonic lifetime membership and now we can download only our own files, So bad!!!

@ Sum-guy, that is an interesting idea. But how do we deal with trust issues like: what is the guarantee that someone will not hijack the primo acct?

Can't use Filesonic anymore.. (Megaupload shutdown effect). Where I live, I cannot find all the treasures you guys share here so, even if I had the money, I wouldn't be able to buy them. Now what? How am I gonna quenche my thirst for culture and good music?!

Some of the vinyls I've seen on here are rare and expensive. I wish the money I spent on filesonic could go to a dif server so I can continue to get these great albums.

Man, this is a pain. Just lost half the files waiting to d/l in my download manager.

Btw, Filesonic is still being advertised on this site's homepage! You might wanna get rid of that.

Update 1: For the TV show fans, VideoBB has fallen!

I could say quit a bit about why this is just another scare tactic but I'll reefer anyone interested to a good article about more than a century of such attacks by the same forces over @ BigO http://bigozine2.com/feature/?p=681

Avax has been a light for many people who can´t afford books and other educational materials --and I´ve been one of them. So I hope you can always stand up for long time and thanks for such an important effort.

Being very sad but also keeping my hope alive,I am trying to decide which way to go and what should I choose.Keep up the good fight,guys!
They cannot disappear everybody.

Goodbye to the blurays......

As long as Avax is running, no one is jumping ship! I stay onboard. A fucking hurrah!

“Sorry guys, it was good while it lasted!” (c) Megaupload twitter

not only that filepost and uploading.com sucks! we should use sendspace and mediafire instead.

I remember Cerealripper from the old days,who always had the best things to say about mediafire before his retirement from uploading.

Our hacker brothers should engineer a "Take Down the Planet Week" to teach these SOPA/PIPA scum sucking fascists a fucking lesson! My skills are today pretty rusty to be of any help, but we have nex-gen geniuses that can easily figure out how to completely shut down the RIAA, govt., MPAA etc. systems and starve them from the net for a week.
Everyone must understand WE ARE AT WAR!!! against the powers that serve evil. Evil must be used against itself! A lesson should be delivered! When this NWO really ratchets up, hackers will be the last hope for a free mankind... and free hot babes kind too.

I think the close down of Filesonic and Megaupload have major consequences:

1. Sites who wish to continue to operate need to use many different hosting sites.

2. With different hosting sites used, premium account will be unfeasible due to economic reasons.

3. Expect more vessels to sink. I dont think others will last long. Let's wait and see a massive hacker attack to happen.

L'accès à la culture est multiple, et le libre partage informatique en est la plus belle expression sans doute. Si le commerce est une chose noble en soi, puisqu'il diffuse et rémunère les créateurs, la morbidité financière des ayant-droits ou prétendus tels, et le délire infantilisant de leurs accusations, la violence insupportable (la prison) créé un climat des plus malsain. Alors, quelles ripostes trouver à la hauteur du problème actuel ?

L'access to culture is multifaceted, and the free sharing computer is the most beautiful expression, no doubt. If trade is one thing noble in itself, since it distributes and pays the creators, morbidity financial assigns or alleged, and the delirium of their infantile accusations, violence unbearable (the prison) created a climate more unhealthy. So, what responses to find the height of the current problem?

FREDOM FOR ALL, and shame that the champions of LIBERTY, are the main TRAITORS!
AVAXHOME, LIVE FOR EVER.

This really sucks, I paid in advance until July. I just sent them an email asking to cancel any future recurring payments and if I can get a refund for the months since filesonic is utterly useless now. Though I'm not holding my breath that they'll refund my money. This has further implications actually. What about sugarsync, dropbox, and amazon cloud?

Those bastards want to show that SOPA/PIPA is useless, they have already all the tools and powers to destroy the freedom of sharing. The most powerful tool is fear and the fear is shutting down all other storage services. We must fight, period.
Avaxhome has been my house of freedom, skills, training for 2 years, without avaxhome I shouldn't be what I am now. No one can dare to hit avaxhome, I'm ready to fight.

Thank You for being with us AVAXHOME !

Avax and all dispersed family for the whole Earth: WE ARE TOGETHER!!!!!

libra, from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

I live to cause trouble upon the powers of the NWO evil! I'm reading many of you are now left hanging on pre-paid accounts with FUCKEDSonic and the like. There may be a fun annoying remedy:
For those of you in the USofA, you can file a claim in Small Claims Court for a nominal fee. Sue FUCKINGSonic for your loss, distress, loss of whatever you can claim. If thousands sue, they'll never answer and default because lawyers are not allowed in the Small Claims venue. For those of you in other countries, check your similar legal options. Remember, even if you don't win any cash recovery, you STILL WIN because it'll cost those traitors dearly!!
Also, what @Crusader said about if you used PayPal to pay these cumsucking, buttfucking traitors, contact PP immediately and complain for a refund!!!
There are many loyal Avaxers here, and if we spread the word to other sites, these companies will get their very own "Brokeback" mountain right up their deserving collective asses! Money, or the loss of it speaks very loudly!

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits."

Internet freedom is a human right!

Thing is, there was no reason for all of this had people been a little more covert. Like uploading a file and naming it "LATEST_HOLLYWOOD_FILM_RIP" and then not even bothering to compress it and give it a password.

Years ago, when the "scene" was mostly underground - we password protected the filenames, and called the uploaded files "backup1" or anything else but NOT what the files actually were.

If they want a war, we shall go underground and carry on. In fact, I would imagine this will only strengthen the networks and the true meaning of "warez" will come back - sharing for free and actually buying something if you like it. And remember, NEVER make money from warez....

:-)

Filesonic SUCKS "All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.

If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager."

Fuckin' knew it that I shouldn't pay in advance. Cowardly dicks!

A Report from the Front Line

MegaUpload
Closed.

FileServe
Deleting multiple files. Closed affiliate program.

FileJungle
(Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.

UploadStation
(Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.

FileSonic
Sharing disabled. Closed affiliate program. Deleting files and accounts.

VideoBB
Closed affiliate program.

Uploaded.to
Banned USA IP addresses.

FilePost
Started suspending accounts with infringing material (doing what Hotfile did)

VideoZer
Closed affiliate program.

4shared
Deleting multiple files.

Wupload
Many accounts disabled.

East European & former Soviet Union countries based file sharing services are working as usual :-)

ahh I remember the good old days of warez and bbs's. With upload and download restrictions to mitigate leachers. Good times..

fuerza avax!!!!
anyone known how is Rapidshare in all this "storm"?

Im still with you AvaxHome

nigrrrrrrr

you are right!
you can refund your money in filesonic with paypal

I have long realized that it was not stable filesharing. And than dont upload files to this FS

I think filepos is more stable....

RapidShare works, sharing is not closed and speed is ok. they were clever enough to stop all reward programs when filesonics were popping up :)

rapidshare DOESNT work cause now you need to open an account there in order to upload something, and they are gonna track you.

that's from uploader's perspective. I was talking about downloads. Compared to Filesonic, RapidShare DOES WORK 300% :)

I am afraid with this trend, all file-sharing services will be down like filesonic, unless they are hosted by a business and/or in a country outside US jurisdiction.
Please come to the scene Russia? China? Middle-East? There're a lot of money make in this business.

@pgf000 and how are you gonna download something if nobody is gonna upload it? think.

It is challenging times but we should strive and continue to support avaxhome, which I'm very much thankful and indebted. I think it is a question of rethinking strategy.

SOPA/PIPA right now is an US issue so the clear move is to avoid sites based in the US and that applies also to other territories which are strongly under US influence (e.g., Hotfile in Panana). Megaupload is gone. Filesonic quickly became a "soft" in-the-cloud only site before Feds could do the same. Sooner or later, others will fall or change their service.

I sympathise with those who invested on Filesonic as I am one of those and had on some occasions a 1-month subscription there.

A suggestion that I can offer for consideration is to totally BOYCOTT US-based sites as they represent risky investment for your money. I would rather consider Chinese and Russian sites, for instance. Another interesting option that needs to be reintroduced here is RAPIDSHARE as it is based in Switzerland (outside EU and that we know well the fame of their banks) and there are precedents supporting that they will keep the service (though sometimes they remove some links). In the past, it used to be common RAPIDSHARE links here but for some reason users stopped posting rapidshare links. At this moment, this should be reconsidered.

A battle is probably lost; not the war. "Hasta la Victoria Siempre"

I'm proud to know this community and all the good intentions to share and let the knowledge flow free. Thank you in advance for all the great work. The genius in all of you will overcome the storm.

Those who have had their own private and legal files pirated by the US Department of Justice

should email askdoj@usdoj.gov and DEMAND compensation.

I have done this requesting the nominal amount of USD500,000,000.00 for the PIRACY of MY files.

I suggest everyone affected do the same.

RS might be in the Switzerland, but they are obligated to respect EU law (they are being integrated into the EU starting with the Schengen Agreement) and when it comes to push, they will bow to US pressure. Don't count on the Swiss. Sorry.

Cerealripper used RAPIDSHARE exclusively for his excellent work(and,by the way,millon thanks to all the people who reposted it)but some ungrateful complainers managed to lead to removal.I really don't know if it's the solution,although it definitely should be reconsidered.
Meanwhile,I will try to PM as much dead links as possible.It is a shame for all this wealth to be lost..just a shame.

@smorrissey
good question. I just checked filestube.com. Depends on what you're looking for, but RS is not empty yet, and they still have some warez. Supposedly those are DVD-rips dubbed in Russian, some German stuff like documentaries and TV series, but of course RS doesn't want problems with FBI, so for English-speaking people that is hardly an alternative.

@pgf0000 RS is old and dead stuff dude... who cares about dvd rips dubbed in Russian?????? only people from Russia....RS was the best 9 years ago...before megaupload, before filesonic, before the dark times, before the empire!

There are alternative filelocker services such as fileserve, mediafire, yousendit, sendspace. We are going through a series of changes similar to the closure of Napster years back. This triggered the rise of alternative services such as rapidshare and megaupload.

The best thing to do right now is hold tight and use alternative filelocker services.

We will be on the avaxhome brigantine until the end!!!!

RS dead?
say that to all the uploaders in the avantgard section. Thanks to everyone in there for sharing art, culture and the best music.

@araia so, are you telling me that i can open a rapidshare account, upload a movie, paste the links here on avax or taringa for everybody to download them, and they're not gonna be deleted? Those would be brand news for me....

no, i´m not telling that.
I´m saying that what is dead for you is alive for many.

(did´nt you read "avantgard section" in my post?)

So far UPLOADING was not included in the dangerous list above.
I wouldn't give credit to RAPIDSHARE myself,either.

@ sure i did, but that doesn't solve the current situation here on avax.....so RS is NOT an option.

well. You are concerned about movies. I´m concerned about the avantgard section.
bye.

+1 to what nutter123 said.
And a shoutout to many ebook-uploaders: for pity's sake, stop using the ISBN (book number) as the file-name - you might as well wave a "please delete me!" flag.

*sigh* filepost and uploading.com are soooo slow... *grumble*
Besides, filepost's in-your-face plugging of Google Chrome is annoying, and their captcha often fails to load properly. And uploading.com only lets you download two files before saying you've "reached your daily limit"; pause to logout and change address... (Speaking from a free downloader's perspective.)

UxKiller or anyone - what about depositfiles? What's happening over there?

@ araia you need to think too. RS is dead and gone as an effective file sharing service nowadays. enjoy your avantgard movies though...

Thanks, I will enjoy my avantgard music.
Also, I think for myself, thank you very much.
bye

Hey gang, this really blows. But like the title says, it's just a storm, it will pass by. I think Filesonic panicked and took everything down. They werent told to shut down. Lets just hope no one else panic. The SOPA bill hasn't passed and it wont pass. To much is at stake. Long live Avax, keep it going.

Of course, it was never my intention to think for you, ha ha, bye.

filepost tomorrow !

Deposit files, mediafire still clicking...

rapidshare? zippyshare? zshare? letitbit? crocko? (the grandfather) badongo? filesend? uploadhere? uploadking? depositfiles? freakshare? netgull? shareflare? oron? uploadie? megashares? ez-files? usaupload? hipfile? fast-files? flootr? extabit? sendspace? 10upload? bitshare? ifilez? twittload? sharebee? amonshare? boosterking? woofiles? uppit? sharebeast? and Narod by Yandex

I do not know which have programmes of income for uploaders, and those who do not :o

@smorrissey
What do you have against DVDs dubbed in Russian ?!...
This is not the problem ...
But of course God forbid IFOLDER remain one single and last repository ...
...
But and this is not the biggest and the main problem.

amen bro...

Please give us your pass like we can finish our download
Fight and start to free sharing every where

@ smorrissey :
under my old AH nickname I have still about 600 files / 60 GB on my Free Rapidshare accounts. (Even if they call it now "Premium, I never paid and I´ll never pay anything)
Most of these files are still available, since 2005. Posted since then on AH. Until 2010 - when I stopped posting.

@nutter123 :
No one is scanning files, password protection is just stupid. Anyone just complains, and files get blocked. They never check what they block and a week later delete. Because: if it´s legal stuff, the uploader can easily unblock it.
No xyz123.rar with password is any safer than Beatles.rar without password. Copyright-holders just check Warezsites and links...
And as we all learned: even linkprotection is a joke.

But the killer is called business. Uploaders, who wanna get rich - downloaders, having enough money to pay premium accounts, Warez-sites getting money from Affiliate programs, filehosters etc etc....

But the evil (yes, us) will always be ahead of the law. Be flexibel and keep on having fun ! Old Pirates never die :-)

you right man
fight and start to free sharing

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.


...May the Force be with us.

how about use dropbox with fake name and passworded rar and put in public share ?

Time to abandon the old model in the face of this attack from the entertainment/government complex. Finding new places to upload files to is a caveman response to an information age problem. Besides, places like this are doomed, because they work on the same greed model - the majority of "sharers" here only do it as long as they are getting paid for it by rebates from the rapidly dying fileservers. You think Oceandrop and Bezz and Ruskaval and others (I do not speak about the many other true shareres - just the ones who exploit this site) will "share" if they don't get paid for it? Wake up.

Prolly torrenting is the way to go. There are many programs that successfully mask your location, and there are no fees to up or download, no limits to what you can download, and is a much harder method for the industry/government to crush.

You don't see demonoid panicking the way Avax is, do you? Avax and places like it are doomed - time to move the movement forward!

If the RS service is so good problem solved! Lets gonna upload everything there. Whats storm then?

Avaxhome rocks!
i´m start with uploading

I know we will find a way.....we always did, (Napster, hotfile,rapidshare....many)...we alwsys find a way to share our musics.
Be patient....Avax will lead us....again.

Bad times...

Bad & Good time in our community come AND GO every few years now & then.
I hope things normalize pretty soon.s

Dure période... je reste sur le bateau avax même si ça secoue un max

Who said RAPIDSHARE is dead??? Still the best for reliability, fast, no wait and captcha for free users ... remember the bad comments about it. I still use it with pleasure :-)

But plz like in the old times let people choose their own hosting service ...

what about netload?

I'm surprised only a couple of people have mentioned the obvious, that people aren't discreet enough, such as how they name files. The problem with this whole system is that it's out in the open. Anyone can go to a site and see what's available.

The best system right now are private ftp apps such as the old standby Hotline or Carracho (for macs). While you have to host the files, your server can be password protected and member only by word of mouth. Some are outdated now, such as Carracho, but run fine on older machines, which makes your activity even more obscure.

How about deposi tfiles, oro n, turb obit, or sha re-online?

How about letitbit,vip-file,turbobit?

I would like to thank Avax community for all their services and support and hope that this crisis will be over soon.
Cheers!

Donec interdum ... EGO subsisto in navi, etsi a maximum vento quatit. Fluctuat nec mergitur.

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As usual there is a flurry of emotional and childish bubbling about 'sharing' and 'freedom' etc. I have got the impression that absolute most of people whining here are immature kids, thinking with their balls instead of brains. First and for all let face it - Avaxhome is not a beacon of freedom and sharing - just remember how they forced you to use some unscrupulous file serving companies, without any regards to your rights of choice, so calling them nice name is at least stupid. They are the same unscrupulous business as music studios and other who initiated attack on file sharing services - the fact that they are on the other side of barricade do not make them any better. There use you to make tonns of money and don't give a goddamn shit about sharing, freedom etc. the same may be said about file sharing companies - they are only after money and piss on you and your rights. They are in cosy relationship with Avaxhome and either do not give a goddamn yawn about you as long as they are fleecing your wallet.THE TRUTH IS THAT ALL THIS WAR IS ABOUT WHO IS GOING TO GET YOUR MONEY, CONTENT COMPANIES OR FILE SHARERS AND AVAX - you would be fu...ked either by former or latter. I fully agree with =splatterghost= that the model is to blame, model based on greed.
No tricks like password protecting the files, misleading filenames etc. would work, as long as there are sites such as avaxhome, where all the info is available in open form for anybody - and it is open and available to anybody precisely because Avaxhome is a BUSINESS making money from selling access to illegal stuff. If they imposed restrictions on access etc. people would go elsewhere and they would be finished as profitable, and indeed a very lucrative business. I think this model is untenable in long run.
And one more thing - I agree that the content presented here is good for people from less fortunate countries, who simple can not afford to pay western prices for quality books etc., but people from the west are perfectly able to pay for them - only that they have been so spoiled by decades of shameless exploration of poorer countries that they want everything and for free. You already has clothes you can buy for equivalent of 15 minutes of your work, a restaurant dinner that cost you 1 hour of work etc. etc., whereas the same things in less predatory countries are extremely expensive or totally out of reach of any, but very wealthy people. So just face it, your whining is just a yell of spoiled brat. You surely wouldn't die for not having next Britney spears clip or next crappy Hollywood movie - it may eventually serve you well, by forcing you to to use your own brain at last.
And the last one - Avaxhome team surely wouldn't like my comments on their business - but if I'm wrong, prove it to me, I am very reasonably person, and, yes, I use my brain and use it well. Anyway, there are torrents and smaller sites that are REALLY about sharing useful information (not crappy US movies and 'music' of the likes of B. Spears et.al), so no end of the world would happen. Just there would be less crap in cyberspace, and less businesses like Avax, Filesonic etc. I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT MISS THEM!!!

AVAX : you should remove the "AvaxHome recommends - FileSonic = High speed+parallel downloads!" on the top of the page ;-)

BTW : Rapidshare, Oron and MediaFire are still up & running.

I think you should never go for more than 4 months membership with those ddl site, world is changing too fast ...

i recomand the use of websites with servers outside the US, Uk, Canada, Australia and NZ...servers located in germany, russia and china are the safest from this moment(rapidshare, ifiles, depositfiles...)it seems its a beginning of a new era..

Thought this might be a useful summary.

Filehost: Server / Office

4shared: USA / USA
badongo: USA / USA
bitshare: USA / USA
bigupload: Netherlands / USA
data-loading: Germany / Germany
depositfiles: USA / Cyprus
crocko: Netherlands / Cyprus
filebase: Germany / Germany
filefactory: Netherlands / Netherlands
files.mail: Russia / Russia
filesonic: Netherlands / HongKong
fileserve: USA / USA
filepost:Hong Kong+USA / Hong Kong
freakshare: Netherlands / Seychelles
Ge: Ireland / Denmark
gigasize: Canada / Canada
hotfile: USA / Panama
hulkshare: Netherlands / HongKong
kewlshare: Germany / Germany
kickload: Germany / United Kingdom
Limelinx: Canada / Canada
load: Fance /United Kingdom
mediafire: USA / USA
megaupload: USA / HongKong
netload: Germany / Germany
Onlinedisk: Russia / Russia
oron: Netherlands / USA
putlocker: ?? / Bahamas
rapidshare: Germany / Switzerland
remixshare: Germany / Germany
sendspace: USA / USA
share-now: France / HongKong
share-online: Netherlands / Belize
sharebase: Netherlands / Germany
sharehoster: Germany /United Kingdom
shragle: France+Germany / Seychelles
sHost: Switzerland / Switzerland
speedshare: Netherlands / Seychelles
speedyshare: USA / Seychelles
tinyupload: France / Poland
ugotfile: USA / Australia
uploaded: Netherlands / HongKong
uploadbox: Netherlands / USA
uploading: Cyprus / Hong Kong
videozer: USA / USA
Wupload: USA+Netherlands / HongKong
x7: Netherlands / HongKong
xup: Luxembourg / USA + Malaysia
yourfiles: Netherlands / Netherlands
zippyshare: France / Germany
zshare: USA / HongKong

NEW & UNCHECKED:
Extabit: Server IP :Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Shareflare: Server IP: Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Letitbit: Server IP: Czech Republic
turbobit: Server IP: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Hitfile:
Filejungle
Uploadstation
Novamov

Cheers

LeftyRight

PS Interestingly both Onlinedisk & files.mail have their respective offices and servers in Russia.
To the cynical no I don't have an account at either one - I have (or should that read had) filesonic & fileserve. :(
It might be worthwhile someone from avaxhome examining Onlinedisk & files.mail. (extensions have been removed for safety but are fairly obvious)
Somehow I couldn't see the Russians bowing down to the US authorities.
Anyway just a thought.
Hope the information helps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services

Faites comme moi : plus d'achat de CD d'artistes US, plus de films au cinéma, boycot de tout ce qui est estampillé USA !

I can just say one thing: such legislative activity is spreading all over the western world. Belgium (where I live) is blocking p2p searching sites since at list (2 yrs). we should look, as suggested, to more "liberal" contries (liberal just 4 interest like Russia or China) and to services based there if they are reliables. let's resist as far as we still have our internet connections....

I am going to give this a week or so and see what happens when the dust settles.
By restricting access to file sharing Filesonic's business is going to drop by about 90%.
Once the activity/income dries up they might change their mind..
I wonder if this is just a knee jerk re-action.

Avax has always been like one of the light streams defending Rights of all FREE people against the devastating and dark power of money !
So many people, as you're all, CANT'T be wrong, there must be a way to keep FREEDOM flowing and when i read all of your posts then i remain confident...
Keep the good work, keep the spirit and THANKS !!!
Cheers

The next one:
FileServe can only be used to download and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.

Please consider this:

Rapidshare for free users download speed: 5-7 MB/s!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know how often I told, no, I begged, uploaders to use RS. Now what?

1. Next Feds target of new era: Rapidshare! Beside Megaupload, an example to the world of USA's Long Arm of the Law!
2. ALL filehost services at this moment in "stand by" - Just wait!
3. IMHO Avaxhome must close your forum to non members!
4. Share files isn't make money, in the last two years the word 'sharing' was completely corrupted!
5. Be careful and patient!
6. Torrent anyone?

I still don't understand why AVAXHOME not removing the "AvaxHome recommends - FileSonic = High speed+parallel downloads!" on the top of the page. It looks pathetically lame banner now.
RAPIDSHARE is rocking with no catpcha, high speed . Kinnda gonna Rock filesharing services.
chk out guys... :)

For ever with you! Go on Avaxhome..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

usenet is the best way to share files
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

This all came about because of greed. Uploaders wanting to get money for their shares. It was totally against the free STW spirit that this and other forums once had. Even the expert [k]ers have stopped giving us their [k]s in many cases cos they know others will make money out of it.

This will just be the beginning. The european and american government have being working on this since several years in private. you hardly get news on the subject since media is one of the main prosecutors. Next to Holywood and the music industries and the printing press. They could not find a way to keep the market in their hands and other markets evolved. like the whole filesharing scene. and they make money on pirating the stuff. But on the other hand the industry would not be that far, if we would not have seen these filesharing sites. We would probably still be in the recordstore browsing for music in a mot inconvenient way or stand in line in a bad movie theater with prizes for rotten beverages with are outrages.
I am pretty sure the scene will find a way to bypass these obstacles since there is to much money already involved. it will take a little time and a little creativity. but thats what we all have on these sites. fast thinking on different lanes than the mainstream. i count on that. i would really hate the fact to not find movies that i have never seen from the good old times. i love the versatility and the wide range of all kinds of quality you can find here. to me its a creativity pool in all sorts of direction. My advise? Stick to a monthly description with a file sharer. might be not the cheapest but makes sense. Also: Anybody checked the possibility in cloud computing? i mean they all want us to get into that. i am not a tecnicfreak, but i am sure the huge world of file sharer will find a new way to get the thing they want. keep on pirating and be the sting in mainstream society!

MAybe the first thing is not to get back our money!
The wrong is not from filesonic or Megaupload!!
We should blame the murder!!

I see here two groups of people whining, first are uploaders who make money from those sites. Stop whining about closed sites and whine about money because the real reason is that, there are other sites where you can upload your movies and other stuff but there is no money involved, so ether do that or stop presenting yourself as one of those who just want to share stuff without profit.It is not a real picture! Number of uploaders from now on will be resided in half because there is no profit for them, just a waste of time.
Second are downloaders. You still can download almost everything on the internet just use search or download from torrent.
If they have the right to be global police and take action which they prefer, we have the right to do what we want to do. There is no quality in Hollywood movies or music any more just quantity, they make movies and music like pancakes. I am the first who will buy a great movie but I'm not gonna buy some low quality shit and put some low rated director or producer money into pocket. Internet give us many problems now days, but there is also plenty of solutions, keep that in mind.
STOP WHINING AND START FIGHTING!
I deeply recommend to watch this interview from the begining or you can skip to 12:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPAG5qCXvjg&feature=related

all hands on deck..

I laughed back in 2010 when Rapidshit was closing. Morons were coming here crying like little girls their money gone etc. I mean it is obvious that this kind of businees is dirty and there is a very high risk of losing your money if buying long-term accounts. In the end, you can download most of the stuff legally, even the lossless music is now widespread - there are many record labels selling high quality music even in Eastern Europe. You have absolutely no right to cry over here. Go get a life instead.

Let`s see what the future will bring. I`m sure that megaupload was primary a target because of Megavideo. Filesonic and the others are overreacting somehow. The baddest thing atm is the horrible "world police"... Mega: Suited in Hongkong - get arrested in New Zealand and shut down in the US. It´s a shame.
I will still run uploaded.to. Sorry for all US residents - maybe use VPN proxys. Let´s see who will be the next one. If it`s true that Filepost will do as Hotfile did... Sad times, sad times...

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Mega: Suited in Hongkong - get arrested in New Zealand and shut down in the US. It´s a shame.

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you forgot:

Servers in Florida, USA. That's a big piece of the puzzle.

And it doesn't help that they had really sloppy security, what with the emails presented in the indictment:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1201/S00108/megaupload-shutdown-and-arrests-the-indictment.htm

It also didn't help that DotCom and Bram van der Kolk were for years doing inside deals with "customers" in Alexandria, Virginia and several other suburbs of Washington, D.C. that turned out to be Feds gathering evidence...

These megaupload guys were idiots trying to run a global racketeering business while communicating over UNencrypted email services. They deserve what they got. The unfortunate thing is that this was meant to have a chilling effect, which it most certainly is proving to have accomplished.

Yes, Kim Schmitz is a real "Hallodri" as the germans say. I do not cry one tear about him, but i still think it's a shame how the industry brings up laws and actions like this with worldwide effects. See how they make heavy weather about child porn, but in the moment someone will earn two bucks less it is no problem to act worldwide and get people arrested... :-(

The New World Order is here, my friend :(

Avaxhome has a teacher-student relationship with me. I will come here even if it stopped hosting files. Times change. Eventually we will figure out something. The internet is ours. We will wait it out while it recovers.

http://jumbofiles.com/

true vermuz , i too come here only for programming sections of ebooks. I care damn about movies or music. Avax is a teacher to me. Education must be free.

The New World Order is here... as long as we agree to let them do whatever they want with our lives. We're not talking about "author rights" we're talking plainly about profit & money. That's all the concern about. The enemy guess that if they kill online sharing, people will buy more books and CDs and DVDs (personally I think they're wrong, a free internet gives the companies a chance for freely and effectively advertise their products they won't have with a restricted-to-the-jail-punishment one, and regular folks nowadays won't purchase a product unless they know it enough as to be sure they're not wasting their money). So, we have to figure out a way to counter-attack and let the enemy know that they will make even less money if they push and bully their potential consumers just like they're doing right now. What measure will be it? I don't know, but there's some hundred (or thousand) millions of online sharers worldwide. I guess someone could figure it out, and SHARE it with the rest of us.

For people asking about what servers are still working: They're all exposed to the danger, so they will probably all go down in the next few days (or hours). The enemy just loose the dogs on MegaUpload, panic will make the rest of the work for them. I'm sure they just paid a call or even an e-mail to FileSonic and FileServe regular leaders and they just lower their heads and comply because they don't want their butts in any US jail. It's not about "law infringment", sharing whatever you buy with whoever you want to is not a crime, and the enemy know it. So they just go with this "shock and awe" strategy, imprisoning people without a cause, just because they have the power. Don't expect this to go smoothly back to normal: actually, it's the end of the world as we know it, unless we do something about it.

And by the way: Why are you fighting with each other, blaming other members, Avax rulers and even ourselves for this? Even the downed hosters are victims too, as greedy and irresponsible as they could have been (I never liked to be imposed on FileSonic either, but what does it matter now?) Wake up: WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!

We are not the enemy, you know who the enemy is, so stop wasting energy in this useless fighting.

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NEW & UNCHECKED: Letitbit: Server IP: Czech Republic

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I am downloading files from this server from last 2 years and this is best trustable server for me.

File Jungle is going down, started deleting files!

soluce : free for all

están tratando de tapar el sol con un dedo. la libertad de información no es sólo una causa, sino una realidad innegable. esto les puede salir muy mal, la gente puede pasar de cuestionar la propiedad intelectual a cuestionar la propiedad a secas.

Rapidshare links ARE ALIVE!!!

filejungle Rip

Filejungle is down! Where have all the good men gone?????

Спасибо, ребята - THANX guys!

FileJungle has just changed.. now the possibility of download is only for respective uploaders..

for those crying for megaupload:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz

what a prick...

by the way guys..
have you noticed.... The Flag in the ship... in the picture above.. carrying the torn mega-upload flag. :D

... but we have to admit that the FBI action was perfect: just fu*ked one guy and they managed to fu*k all host sites.
... and we have to admit too: most of host site's owners are very coward. The first time they need to fight they give up. Ok, jail is a sh¡t, but I really expected more courage, as Piratebay do.

Anyway, I think everything will be normal soon, I mean, this is the chance for new hosts arise, especially on East Europe...

TEARS AND TEARS AND TEARS AND MORE TEARS!!!!!!!!!!!
This is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're all GONE!!

PLEASE... THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO START THE YEAR..... well, it's *** 2012 ***

VERY SAD!!!!!!!!!

HOPE SOMETHING WILL WORK OUT SOON!!!!!

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it means more rapidshare and russian file hosters then be it!

Who cares about your music 1541-II???
The true value are the books and other education stuff!!

Fileserve and Filejungle gone too like filesonic... :(

well done Avax

LOL
where is avaxnews ?sexy girls in news , it is used to be in main page :)

rapidshare was a bit smarter but that cost it a lot >all his user changed to other file shearing " rapidshare changed their point system remember !!"

megaupload was the best choice after RS, better than shite called shitsoncic.
now i believe all cowards file-sharing sits will start to shut down one by one.
back to real sharing Torrent !!!!

one more thing fuck to the media !!!!! all of them

You simply cant stop the internet and people behind the keyboards and mice, no matter what, it's pointless and futile. There will always be a way. Don't despair people.

http://x7.to/

http://x7.to : officially out of business.

Filejungle closed its affiliate program

Check Here:
http://www.filejungle.com/affiliate.php

And Uploadstation is closing accounts... i got mine disabled today...

no doubt that fileserve, filejungle uploadstation and maybe filesonic belongs to the same owner...

Fuck them All anyway...

filesonic=wupload = 1 owner
its scammers

@avaxo:
Host servers do not neccesarily belong to the same owners, altough some certainly do. The thing is, they've just been all warned: close all the sharing options or you're getting your butts in jail, like MU owners. Panic did the rest... I personally wouldn't blame them for cowardice, No one likes to spend the last 10 years of his/her life in a US prison.

The point is: we all share a common enemy. That enemy is the prime and only responsible for the closing of the host servers we are lamenting today. And we know what that enemy hope to achieve with that: more money from our pockets! As if they don't have enough right now... So, the question is: Are we going to give them our money so they can be happy? Or are we going to fight back and show them that restricting the internet won't make them take more profit from us as they think they will?

Forget about "author property rights" an blahblahblah, no one care a sh#t about that... All they want is money.

A Huge thanks to Avax as usual. Just filed my complaints to paypal fo money back from filesonic

Cowardly rats deserting the ship run by greedy rats.

You REALLY think that if all that was left to Avax was the ability to upload "books and other education stuff" they would stay in business? Wake up. They would close up shop in a day. The main and only business of Avax is to make a fortune from advertising which is sustained by the thousands of visitors who come here for free music and movies. Why can't we be honest about this?

Deluding ourselves about "freedom" and "sharing" will not solve any problem. You have exactly the same amount of "freedom" even if you can't get the latest album you want for free. In fact, it is sites like Avax that put the spotlight on the fileshare scene by blatantly advertising thousands of albums and movies and magazines each week. Avax isn't the solution - its a major part of the problem. Sites like this are just red flags waved in the face of the corporate bulls.

Notice how the "sharers" who only "shared" with fileservers that paid them rebates are gone now? Where is their love of "sharing"? Where is, for example, ruskaval now that he can't bleed money from this site?

Anybody who has been on this scene for a few years knows that when it was treated as the low-key scene it should be instead of the moneymoneymoney scene it became because of sites like this, things were much easier. But the idiot belief that you are ENTITLED to get anything at all you want by just going to your noble and freedom loving pals at Avax is what killed Megaupload and ALL our fileservers.

The brats who took over killed this scene.

I have paid for Fileserve and Filesonic.
Fileserve two years ( U$ 99 )and they disabled my account for no reason.
Filesonic one year ( U$ 55 )and no file sharing.
All in a period of two months.
They are sucking our money and we can not do anything to them.

There are many, many storage companies that provide their support, and what will happen now is other companies based in other countries will continue giving support, specially in the Netherlands and Russia.
I think also Avaxhome should consider the possibility of BITTORRENT links also.
And I agree with Avaxhome about the word: RATS hahahaha ;)
you right, but we will continue, I'm pretty sure about that

@ splatterghost
Do you really come here for movies and music?
If that's all you want and take from this site then I feel sorry for You, because the real danger of this file hoster crysis is the possible loss of educational stuff!
Avax would be the last place I would look for some blockbuster movies, music, etc.

mi auguro che quelli di Filesonic non l'abbiano fatto per codardia, ma per preparare una strategia di contrattacco senza perdere soldi com'è successo a Megaupload

lunga vita ad Avaxhome, campione della libertà di conoscenza!

splatterghost

you are really stupid?
Avax - best site with best content.
Filesonic scammed all of us. Its sorrowfully.... but not avax or posters not fault of this. its all filesonic greed.

I am a long time guessed that filesonic very big scammer. I than post to filepost - because it is more stable for my mind.

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Filesonic, one of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, has taken some drastic measures following the Megaupload shutdown and arrests last week. In addition to discontinuing its affiliates rewards program and not yet paying accrued money to members, the site has disabled all sharing functionality, leaving users only with access to their own files. To users of systems like BitTorrent, file-sharing means just that – the sharing of files with others. But this weekend users of Filesonic, one of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, sharing files is currently a thing of the past. According to a shock announcement by the site, all file-sharing functionality has now been disabled, leaving current users only with access to files that they have personally uploaded. Many hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of links all around the web have now been rendered useless, at least temporarily. But the bad news for the site’s users doesn’t end there. In the last few hours, before file-sharing was disabled, Filesonic also ended its rewards program, meaning that uploaders to the site no longer earn money when people download their files. A moot point perhaps, since no-one will be downloading files anyway. However, there is the matter of what will happen to the reward money that was sitting in uploader’s accounts before the rewards program was discontinued. Will it be paid out, or will it simply disappear? Many users fear the latter. http://imagesshare.com/images/CetUl.jpg This combination of news all adds up to a pretty big deal. Filesonic isn’t just some also-ran in the world of cyberlockers. The site is among the top 10 file-sharing sites on the Internet, with a quarter billion page views a month. While there has been no official explanation from the site as to why the above actions were taken, all eyes are turned towards events of the last week – the closure of Megaupload and the arrest of its founder and management team. Like Megaupload, Filesonic appears to be based in Hong Kong and it’s clear that the authorities there already worked with the US government to shut down Kim Dotcom’s operations and seize his assets there. Filesonic is also believed to have some US-based servers. In December, Filesonic announced it had partnered with Vobile, a provider of content identification services. All uploads to the service were said to be being checked for copyright infringement before users were able to share them publicly, although it is unclear if this system was ever implemented by the site. The events of the last week have turned the cyberlocker world upside down and there is quite literally panic among users and site operators. Stay tuned for our detailed report tomorrow – the Megaupload takedown appears to be a game-changer.

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FileSonic - basically dead.
FileServe - basically dead.
FilePost - basically dead.

and of course MegaUpload.

So for now, outside of RS, Avax is dead-in-the-water.

MediaFire, anyone?

Let's just stick to the point,which is the quest for new good hosts.
Not all uploaders earned money via uploading and those who did will be long gone very soon.

I really don't mind downloading slowly without necessarily buying premium accounts,as long as I am positive that I will not encounter dead links.
I am sorry for all those people who lost their money because of these games,I could be one of them.

@kalcjis

Perhaps you missed my point - what I come here for is irrelevant. The point is that if Avax could only remain to upload 'educational stuff' - and nothing else - they would shut themselves down. The 'educational stuff' is just for looking good. They exist (and according to Pasha have become rich) for the distribution of the movies, music etc.

Fact is, on one side you have the greedy corporate world, and on the other you have greedy opportunistic sites like Avax.

And we in the middle run around yapping about "freedom". But we're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.

Well, dear Avax... Back to the times when HQ images were your main content and your beautiful posts in russian... Flame in comments... Old sweet times when the grass was greener.

By the way, guys, is there any blogger/site who tries to make some more or less deep analysis of what's going to be in near future and how this gruesome revolution will change the face of the internet. I see the current situation should be a source of an ocean of speculations - just a paradise for all kinda analysts.
But where are they, any suggestions?

What is the Russian equivalent of "Taps" ?

mediafire is deleting files as we speak.
filepost is on its last breath.
Uploadstation: Dead.
Uploadet.to dead.

Why do say that Filepost is dead. Everything there seems normal.

This is a mess. I can't believe all these sites have bailed on us. This is just a question so don't jump me, but could we use Dropbox?

What you say?
user from filesonic, fileserve, uploasdsation, filejungle upload files now to filepost
their server very busy now... only

ATTENTION! RAPIDSHARE IS WORKING... and very well!

Perhaps, the best solution is change all the files to RS... it don't have captchas and the speed is great :)

It's a huge task but the very best :)

gbruh - Filepost deleted just about everything. Look around some. Das kaput!

Evolver.FM reporting MediaFire deleting massive amounts of files ASAP. Ha.

Watch for RS to do the same very shortly.

Mediafire is USA based,natural thing to do.
Pity for all the premium account holders.

It's not so much "USA" as the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, NZ, and France (and many others - basically all the INTERPOL member states) - suffer from copyright infringement as well and are on board with the current actions. America just is the biggest/badest/leader of the others in law enforcement of this kind.
Read what the French pres had to say!

There are no problems - there are only solutions !!! cheers

Hi guys i feel sorry myself for the situation occured.I agree with some opinions which are defending the torrert way of sharing as the true spirit of sharing but we all aready know that the torrent sites are the ones that are speading most of the junk and it is very difficult to find something really interesting. I am 45 years old and I can assure you that if i could find all the great guitar staff that I have found here back on those days I would be for sure a great guitar player. Now I am downloading it for my niece.There is almost nothing from the staff I have found here in torrent sites. Thank you avaxhome.

scion7777 - i just downloaded a file from filepost thats been on my jdownloader list for a couple of days. And blackflag is still uploading movies and tv shows that are still available. Just where do you see that filepost is deleting files.

Torrent sites can be an equal source of treasures at the hands of the proper people.

@splatterghost

Sorry but I disagree! I've been with avax from the beginning and they didn't start as a greedy opportunistic site-You can even check the most oldest posts and the evidence is there.

The only ones I see as greedy are sites like filesonic,fileserve and their derivatives with greedy file hosting politics. They can only benefit from sites like avax because of free advertisement.

File size of video tutorial on avax are larger than average blockbuster movie if you care about money.

Who downloads movies from multiple links anyway when theres sites like 1channel.ch where You can watch all latest movies without waiting?
Want some music?? Go to YT! What else do you need?

Please Post in NEWS:
January 22, 2012 - http://www.digitaltrends.com/
Following Megaupoad's shut down, FileSonic has disabled all file-sharing, and Uploaded.to has blocked access to US users.
FileSonic.com has cut all file-sharing features from its services, and Uploaded.to has severed access for users in the United States. The amputations follow Thursday’s international takedown of Megaupload.com and its top brass, an operation orchestrated by the US government.
“All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled,” says a notice on FileSharing’s front page. “Our services can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.”
Uploaded.to users located in the United States who try to access the site are blocked entirely, held back by a landing screen: “Not available,” it reads. “Our service is currently unavailable in your country. Sorry about that.”
Both FileSonic and Uploaded.to are registered outside the US.

Could somebody please explain me something?. Sendspace. its locate in the USA, it storage "illegal files" and they're untouchable... why?

Por alguna razón RS no interesa a Avax.

Black March
Thursday, March 1st 2012 to Saturday, March 31st 2012

SOPA & PIPA have been halted for now, but PCIPA is now getting pushed!
With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of 'piracy' and 'conspiracy', the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies' lobbyists.

The only way to hit them where it truly hurts... Their profit margins.

Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy. Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine.

Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April, see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks will lave a gaping hole in the media and entertainment companies' profits for the 1st quarter. An economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments worldwide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes.

This action can give astatement of intent:

"We will not tolerate the Media Industries' lobbying for legislation which will censor the internet."


http://black-march.com/

@yerbas07 razón = dinero. Muchos uploaders cobran dinero cuando alguien descarga los ficheros que ellos dejan en filesonic, fileserve, etc. Al parecer, eso no ocurre con RS.

We'll eventually get over this... Remember Audiogalaxy and Napster falls, back then it seemed it was the end of the world. But sharing became even stronger years after.
I don't know when nor how, but we'll laugh over the coward sharing services and will piss in the grave of SOPA/PIPA.

@josuelito,.............yeah I remember the napster days when they were in hot water. Then a couple of years after that, torrent and cyberlockers showed up and it was a whole new story. Same thing happening here, good timing ahead.

Affiliate program suspended

Hello,

We'd like to inform you that Uploading.com suspended it's affiliate program. Access to all affiliate accounts will be suspended as well on Tuesday 24th of Jan.

Thanks for choosing Uploading.com



Time for another change?

Crocko.com close is affiliate program right now.
who will be the next ?

Now you can open the site for uploaders without invitation. ;-)

Everyone needs to calm down a little bit. Other file-sharing sites outside of US and EU jurisdiction will pop up, and things will continue as they were. Some countries will not allow the US to invade their territory and make demands about what's legal and what's not.

I think there will be no hosters left at the end of the week, so best for all is to wait and see what options are left after all this mess. It is absurd to upload on any host site right now because they are falling like a shot birds. We are all stressed out so we can't see the solution right now. Solution is out there and we will find it.

I agree with dead SteveJobs :)
stop buying stuff, postpone it until the value drops down, right now it is the weapon.

Uploading.com - dead. Uploading.com = FilePost.com

bad news reading

Thank you to be with us AVAX ans tu keep this quarrel on the public side so everyone can be informed!

Not yet, but soon
http://uploading.com/news/view/120/

Uploading.com is not dead, my files are ok and account is ok, for now. Same thing with FilePost.com

I will not continue posting on avax as long as I have to do it either on filepost or uploading.com! I don't see the point in investing time and money into already doomed services.
So I would like to urge the avax gods to come up with a resonable solution.

Well, we have lost content in sharing fileservers, It's bad. But what really concerns me is losing Avax or sites like Avax. Content can be reuploaded o shared by others means. But Avax is the key. All the contents in the Net worths nothing if we can't find it.

Anonyupload si candida a raccogliere l'eredità di Megaupload promettendo totale anonimato tramite l'utilizzo di server russi: l'esordio il 25 gennaio.

Translation:Anonyupload is about to start replacing megaupload, promising anonimity and using russian servers, should start on 25th of January. In another article they said it would be free and as you could guess by its name it comes from Anonymous..

Man what a week, I thought Uploading would stand up and fight, but nooo, they left us too !! Although they were based in Cyprus !!

FilePost Affiliate gone with the wind..

yep. Game over (:

Its not that FEDS are knocking on everybody`s door. Most of our file hosts have just wet their pants. .COM and .ORG ==>(within US jurisdiction)
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Beyond domain seizures

Duckworth told Ars that "under the 2008 PRO IP law, the federal government has the authority to shut down US-registered sites that are overwhelmingly dedicated to piracy—sites with a .com or .org domain. So Megaupload.com falls within US jurisdiction." She argued that new laws are needed to deal with sites at domain names not under US control, such as .hk or .ru.

But Sanchez argued that the seizure of the megaupload.com domain was a fairly minor part of the government's offensive against Megaupload. "If you're really interested in shutting down an illegal enterprise that is located overseas, shutting down one domain or another is a lot less effective than getting your hands on the people and subjecting them to penalties or jail," he said.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/if-the-feds-can-shut-down-megaupload-why-do-they-need-sopa.ars

Да, FilePost тоже тихо ретировался... Какой теперь обязательный ФО будет для сайта?

FILEPOST тоже нагнулся.

Походу avax-у придется на наши переходить или на китайские %). ul.to пока работает. Админы файлопомоек ссыкуны, слили один за другим, либо просто тупо решили кинуть на деньги.

I just got banned from FilePost (and i signed as a referral of avaxhome)... :)

Please listen to galmuchet and let us use the filehost service of the choice of each publisher.

@Темный Повелитель
ul.to - думаю это уже дело времени. Да уж, ситуация.
Наши пока держаться. Нужно ждать. Хотя бы пару дней, а там видно будет.

FilePost affiliate program is gone too just a few minutes ago

>>Our apologies, but we're experiencing minor technical difficulties with our web server.

Please don't worry, our techs have already been notified about this issue and will do their best to fix it. In the meantime, have a little break - perhaps a cup of your favorite beverage. Upon your return our site should be up and running again.
FilePost Support Team

@Dizel_ согласен насчет ul.to :). А наши не выдержат потока постеров и зависнут :))

ждём файлпост =)

filepost & uploading are DEAD

Paid for filesonic account via paypal, so I escalated a claim against them for a refund for services paid for that I'm not getting.

I am frightened of the implications of what the US government is trying to accomplish. Although I would probably agree that some filesharing hurts certain industries like movie making industry, especially Hollywood blockbusters full of special effects, there are certain positive aspects of allowing filesharing. Information preservation is one of the key features for me. I think of myself of an archivist, a source of resources for others. Whether there is a price or not of downloading is irrelevant to me. I wouldn't mind REASONABLE fees to download movies or music. The key aspect is that knowledge is preserved in the highest possible quality. Information can be lost to history. A film storage warehouse can burn to the ground, destroying thousands of priceless and irreplaceable films forever. Books go out of print forever. Then what do we do? Imagine if all copies of The Godfather, or The Wizard of Oz were lost for all time (just some random examples). That is a cultural loss to the world and to the people of the united states. Allowing filesharing means there is a "backup" of quite a lot of important knowledge distributed as widely as possible, so that in the horrible event of a nuclear war or similar tragedy, perhaps a lot of information can be preserved. Think in the long run, people!! Want to show your children what comics or baseball cards were around when you were a kid? want to check out the music that was around during world war I? Good luck if the US crackdown goes too far. No more safety net for the earth's collective knowledge. As horrible as the movie is, it reminds me of the state of the planet in "battlefield earth" or planet of the apes. Worst case scenarios of world disasters look quite a bit worse without digital backups to rely on.

don't panic. there will be no shortage of mavericks to pick up the slack, there's lots of money to be made with all the big boys puckering their arseholes. too bad the old links are gone, though, but it's only a temporary drawback. meanwhile, go check out everything you downloaded, I bet there's tons of stuff just stashed there, that you never listened to/read/viewed :)

Please Staff let us choice some host that again work filepost is impossible to use are banning a lot of ip , removing files and also upload is so bad (average of 300 Kbps).

Letitbit, Uploaded, depositfiles, and some others russian work perfectly , please let us using them

//signed.

The remaining hosters should simply think about cancelling all connections to the US so far. No US *.com or *.org and most important: no US servers. I guess at the end of the week we will know who will survive, and who will not. In the meantime i would suggest to free the rules here. Should be every hoster ok, maybe there will be good alternative coming up by testing.

They used to call us terrorists of the middle east. Now Who is the TERRORIST ? This bunch of oooooold millionaire senators of the US congress whom the CROOKS of the movie and music industry pay them millions in campaigning funds to drown the planet just because they are greedy ? In my country a software like AutoCad is US $ 5000 !!! a salary of 5 workers raising families in a year (these are college graduates) and to buy a cd or dvd is rip if you can find it ! So what you want ? make us pay to professional pirates who copy DVD's of software and music and sell it to us ? take us a decade back then fund our oppressive police forces to fight these people who bribe them ? Is the US Senate promoting darkness and corruption over the planet for the sake of a few crooks who make billions and want even to be richer as they pay their $500/hour lawyers to kill freedom in the name of copyright ??? GOD never created copyrights, never created borders and never veiled women in black (like our extremist right wing wants and does in the name of God). Watch out you Americans, you corporate and banking crooks and your slaves; the outnumber you, they have no money for lawyers but they are more clever and fighting for their lives and mere existence not for mores zeroes on the right of their bank account figures. One day you will be squashed by the poor worldwide and your police and draconian laws will not help you. My opinion, let us try a legal campaign to BOYCOTT Hollywood, Bollywood and ALL paid album music and software for a month and if works we threat to do it every time they start a SOPA or PIPA or an FBI scandal like the Megaupload. Boycott singers and actors who work for these tycoons, don't buy their software, movies and music for one month, no Cinema, no Box office revenues and let us show them we are their INCOME, Bread AND Butter ! and you people in rich countries, that you can afford to be ripped does not mean you have to be ripped. Let us once and for all stand up for FREEDOM and stop the crooks with cash to enslave us by what they claim in LAW when is has nothing to do with justice !

@Alexxus:
Good advice :)

Filepost dead, account deleted !!!

Maybe some guys don't know about ACTA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ

@jumbinho: Same here my account was suspended right now...

Chuckle...I must have been born under a lucky star –- or just a good guy:)

Back in the golden age of avax, I paid for one month of premium with rapidshare, seeing all the goodies available –- following which I uploaded (different nym then:) tons & tons of lossless music & flicks that earned me over 2 years (still have another year to go) of "rapids”. This enabled me to download more than my fill of quality shares at blazing speeds.

That is, until the greedy pigs now whining about losing payments (that includes Management) pushed RS off the table in favor of Slimesonic and the rest of the slimeball hosts. I'd visit here often, but wouldn't download via these vermin unless what I *really* wanted couldn't be found via a thorough search.

So last week I run across a terrific site (also russian) that offers full-blown primo cd sets...all classical. But they relied mainly on Slimesonic, so I *finally* threw 9 bucks on the table for premium and downloaded over 2TB of goodies...there and here...until the sh*t hit the fan –- great timing, eh?

The way I figure, I got my money's worth...ten thousand times over…both with Slimesonic and RS (which is still alive & fast & loaded with gifted rapids). And Slimesonic can keep the $9 with my warmest compliments…and condolences;)

The moral of the tale is that I never "shared" to earn a red cent. I shared (and still do, elsewhere) for the love of my hobbies, good music and movies. So here's to the greedy pigs whining about losing revenue from other people's rips:

Ti sta bene!!!!

*LOL*

Belzebub and Satanas be it take U.S.A. and FBI !!!!!!!!!!!

ho appena pagato 35 euro,
spero che assieme agli altri bastino a rintuzzare il complotto ebraico:
erasmo non guadagnava coi suoi libri e nemmeno i greci e romani,
poi sono subentrati gli ebrei....

Overseas servers/domains will not protect you ...
The USA/UK/Germany/France ETC., etc., can do all sorts of things with the internet connectivity and play HAVOC with the web worldwide if gov'ts not affiliated with INTERPOL do not cooperate - like pulling junctors from the UUB for starters. That would mean a catastrophe for businesses in those countries far, far more important than some filesharing service.
People who say "there are always ways around it - it's the internet" really don't know what they are saying, technically.
I think this 'chilling effect' will last for months before the groundhog feels safe to stick his head out of the hole again.
Also, it's quite clear you can have armed men at your house ready to take you to jail - and seize your assets - where before you felt you had some measure of security by residing in a so-called "safe" country; that has a significant SWEAT-factor to the cats who set up these schemes!

@ splatterghost: It seems to me that you're wasting your time trying to hammer some common sense into brainless lemmings. As I wrote (rather lengthily) above I fully agree with you, that the very AVAXHOME is THE PROBLEM. We'll watch and see if they continue to 'share' without money from advertisers and kickbacks from filesharing pals, which they force on their lemming-like customers. I finished with them when they heavyhandedly started to coerce people to use the likes of Filesonic, who obviously paid them for their 'support'. Obviously, with them and other filesonics gone, the air would be much fresher on the Internet. Normal people still would be able the stuff they need and actually use from torrents and smaller sites that genuinely share - idiots would be left without their daily feel of popular media slop for free. I bet they start to pay, because if you're addicted, withdrawal syndrome pain force you to pay!

@ FenixN: you call people 'stupid' and yourself could not learn even elementary English, the simplest language in the world. In your pathetic naivety, to put it mildly, you are not able to understand that it is Avaxhome who forced people like you to use Filesonic and removed posts that did not have filesonic link. That essentially they are the parts of the same system and they need you and others downloaders just to generate traffic, which is the essence of their business and translates into their profits. They are on Internet solely for money and are smart enough to brainwash poor souls like you to act as 'helpful idiots', yelling slogans without even realizing what they are doing!

Well, enough of all this storm in the glass. People like splatterghost and me would hardly be affected, the likes of FenixN would whine for a couple of days and then fork some monies and pay for the slop they are so addicted to. Ironically, I wrote the Avaxhome-Filesonic business model would be down pretty soon when they started to push filesonic down through people throats and I did not have to wait very long - good riddance to them!!!

Bad times come out... maybe the best way to keep up our Avaxhome is to set as required just 2 hosts, with no server limitation. In that way we can check by ourself real as well as working alternative, when and if still alive.

I agree enmy suggestion , as i wrote before, please Staff give us chance to post 2 host without server limitation, so we can post always the best for keep up our Avaxhome.

Good thought, enmy!

Game Over :(

edi1967

WELL ! WELL !

As it could seem the repression is ON .
IT IS AN ATTACK AGAINST CIVILIZATION.

BE SURE OF THIS.

That means that tomorrow morning you will have no more freedom and no more choice.
But there is MORE.

HERE YOU FOUND NOT a CLONE, no more a COPY but an ÉCHANTILLON. ÉCHANTILLON is a small, may be complet or partial BUT not conform part of books, files and so on.
ÉCHANTILLONS, in ALL COMERCE BASED SOCIETY ÉCHANTILLONS ARE THE MEAN TO DEMONSTRATE THA ABILITY OF A GROUP, A PERSON, A SOCIETY TO MAKE FINE THINGS. ÉCHANTILLONS ARE FREE, FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSE.
You have MP3 files = ÉCHANTILLONS. FREE !

But ther is MORE....
I SAY, I MAINTAIN THAT CULTURAL ÉCHANTILLONS ARE FOR STUDY PURPOSE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SHOW ROOM OF A COUNTRY, A CIVILIZATION AND BECAUSE
THERE IS NO CIVILIZATION WHEN YOU AND I HAVE NO CHOICE TO READ SOMETHING ELSE, SOMETHING DIFFERENT, THAT EVIDENTLY ARE DISPLAYED NOWHERE.

IT IS THE RIGHT TO OWN THAT IS UNDER FIRE .

Two options:
- One the rightfull owner anc copyright lobby, offer and maintain access FOR FREE at ECHANTILLONS. If ÉCHANTILLONS PLEASE WE CAN BUY REAL BOOK OR REAL FILE. BUY IS NOT HAVING A LICENSE.
BUYING AND SELLING IS A HOLLY RIGHT.
OR
- THE RIGHTFUL OWNER, HE WHO PAY TAXES AND FARES WILL SEIZE AND MAINTAIN THE ECHANTILLONS FOR SAKES OF CIVILIZATION.
BECAUSE OWNING ONES ITEM IS ALSO AN HOLLY RIGHT.

KZAROKETSELLO

LOL ^ now that is funny!

@Faster1: The game is not over :) if Staff give us chance to post in different host, We will make the possible for post always good news for Avaxhome.
Never the system STOP us to make Avaxhome the Best :)

depositfiles.com is located at Cyprus exactly like uploading. Interesting, what will happen to it...

ok edi1967 but i think all servers will down

i hope not

Hey guys

this is a chance for bravery new business men different of like cowardly sites deleting files ones for only someone search for the earth right place to site file storage settle down like .ws I don't have money that business for...

^ and people with the money want to keep it and not go to prison.
Hunker down cuz this will last several months at least.

uploading.com - works !!!

LETITBIT - FOREWER!

Yes, bad news folks. Today was black day for all of us. The servers have no fault. Universal is behind this - they are the biggest assholes. Their incomes fall down every day drastically. Nobody wants to watch their dull movies and buy brickwalled CD's! My people say - dead horse kicks worst. But we are here - armed and dangerous! Nothing can stop us!!!

My advise for everyone is to standby for a couple of days.

DO NOT pay for any filehost right now.

They can all go down any instance.

I hope this situation gets clear as soon as possible.

Good luck to everyone!

Filepost rewards are back...

Rapidshare is working fine, and they have also vowed to not pull out and fight if they are sued.
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/rapidshare-isnt-going-anywhere/60846/

^ Yeah, right. RS could suddenly be off the map as easy as 1-2-3. They shouldn't be cocky.

I don't know why RS should be off, they don't affiliate. For six months or so. So why they should be off?

this day I will remember till end of my time! sad historical day it is.

I agree with tenshi and splatterghost. Avaxhome's main page offers a very convenient way to quickly see what's new, and I can appreciate its value as some sort of directory for downloadable content. I would even agree that the staff and uploaders deserve some compensation for that service. But the moment you start seeing the site first as a business enterprise, instead of a joint effort to spread knowledge, you're bound to make decisions that sooner or later will attract the attention of the world police.

The best thing about the original communal spirit of sharing, that oriented the various warez scenes, is that it provides for a low-profile, SUSTAINABLE model. The moment you start expecting to make money off sharing, you've shot yourself in the foot.

@tenshi

Show some respect to people who actually are putting their stuff here!

It sounds like a bunch of women in here!! This has happened before and it will happen again in the future. But file sharing genie is out of the bottle, and he's not going back!! hopefully things will settle down in a few days. keep the faith everyone :)

@luckburz,

Yes, filepost 'rewards' are back, but perhaps they should put that moneys into faster servers. They are painfully slow, so painful for everyone. Bad hosting site, very bad ;( I think RapidShare, who would have thought so, is the way to go for the present. For the present, I say.

I don't see any rewards at Filepost.

interesting gizmodo analysis of the megaupload takedown...

http://gizmodo.com/5877836/why-did-the-feds-choose-megaupload-and-why-now

Stop sobbing, take loss and let's reïnvent filesharing!

Esto es como si prohibieran transitar por los caminos por que se consideran que son los dueños de la tierra....
This is like they forbidden us to go trough roads because they are thinking they're the earth owners...

All in all :

There is ONLY ONE solution to this :

As described before, a total boycot of entertainment industry, not buying a single item and watch America go bankrupt.

Also, never, ever buy any premiums on filehosts, as they will kick you out without any legal reason.

It's the only way to say : WE DON'T TAKE IT ANY LONGER !!!!!!!!!

If they want blood, they can spill their own.

Why so serious? = )

Sybmta (see above) has the right spirit! The greedy pigs here had taken the sharing concept
to a nasty low with their "rewards" and now it's payback time. Good! And now perhaps, if this
site remains open with no more kickbacks from hosting sites, we can get back to what it's
all about: S-H-A-R-I-N-G. Goodbye to the Bezz, the Ruskaval and other similar leeches who
milked a 230MB CD into 5 or more parts for more pennies. That's so "free" downloaders would
get frustrated enough to buy subscriptions to the hosts. Pure greed, not a sharing bone in
their bodies.

Good riddance! And welcome to a nice new world of sharing, wherever it leads us!

Avax Team, do you consider to open posting in blogs for all? Unlike what some people think, yes, many of us go upload some stuff without receiving money for it.

Equipo Avax, ¿considerarían abrir el posteo en blogs para todos? A diferencia de lo que piensan algunos, sí, muchos de nosotros subiríamos algunas cosas sin recibir dinero por ello.

Long life to RS, Alexandra Zwingli has huge balls than the FSE FSO FJU US, etc., rats! Remember IP's, Registrants, locations, etc. Remember them for the future.

Nobody wants to go to jail, but there are ways to more worthy to bear the corporate fear that run to hide in a corner. With that tell them "hey FBI/RIAA/,etc., what you did is worked, continue!"

@sandrolenart
I agree with you

from Why Did the Feds Target Megaupload? And Why Now?

http://gizmodo.com/5877836/why-did-the-feds-choose-megaupload-and-why-now

My sources tell me the timing of the Megaupload arrests was no accident. The federal government, they say, was spoiling for a fight after the apparent defeat of SOPA/PIPA and not a little humiliation at the hands of the Web. And what better way to bolster the cause for cyber-crackdown than by pointing to a massive display of cyber-terrorism at the hands of everyone's favorite Internet boogeyman: Anonymous?

Hello,

We'd like to inform you that Uploading.com suspended it's affiliate program. Access to all affiliate accounts will be suspended as well on Tuesday 24th of Jan.

Thanks for choosing Uploading.com
--------
well, what's your bucket wish? uploading links still work

Thank you Avaxhome, for sailing the ship with the flag held up high ! We are all with you !
Just send updates as to where the servers have moved, if they have to.

"AvaxHome" still with you! > "AvaxHome" is still with you!

It seems like 'Somebody' out there wants all the TURF for themselves !! This is similar to drug wars .. who is behind these malicious acts ??? File sharing has the world where it is now by building the foundation and structures, we would have all dried up and died waiting for proprietary software and the extreme costs associated. Sharing has caused leaps and bounds to the rate of development worldwide !

With all the amazing music I've had the honor of listening to courtesy of this site, I can sit tight and wait for the storm to subside. Things look bad, but this too shall pass. I tip my hat in eternal gratitude to the hard work of all the uploaders on this site, regardless of how this all pans out. You can take away the files but you can't take away the community.

All we can do for now is wait for the dust to settle.

Simple
boicott hollywood !!!
boicott big labels !!
bycott itunes !!!
stop consuming !!!!
and let's see what happens......

I would prefer be a castaway, and not a slave. AvaxHome Team, i stand with you.

Our choice is: start boycotting USA stuff... No freedom, No Money.

...and boicott spelchekers too!!

Why not mediafire? or even rapidshare?

After the "US Court: RapidShare Not Guilty of Copyright Infringement" ( http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-not-guilty-of-copyright-infringement-us-court-rules-100520/ ) -one year ago- Rapidshare removed the affiliate program... and RS disappeared from the scene of uploaders who wanted his reward.

Well, now, at this time, RS is the only file hoster that "Not Guilty of Copyright Infringement". The United States District Court of California has ruled.

At this time, RS is the only one __secure__ file hoster for the original/ancien P2P, without rewards.

=;-)

Saludos desde Spain.

Wow. Torrents RULE once again. Downloading stuff now at massive speed ! LOL !

Uploading work in Brazil

Yes uploading works fine in Brazil, where are they dead?

haha...you know this was inevitable..Anonymous hacker collective > http://www.anonyupload.com/

Re: auweia ^^
"haha...you know this was inevitable..Anonymous hacker collective > http://www.anonyupload.com/"

I thought .com addresses were USA jurisdiction and could therefore be shut down instantly like M.U.

I'm sure that's just one of the domain suffixes and probably not the primary one. Avax does something similar and has more than one suffix, .ru being one

truely sadly about this condition now.... but I'm very optimistic about this case...

time to explore http://avaxnews.com/ a lots of good stuff there too... thanks for the TEAM ;-)

In the words of the Hee Haw cast in the late 60s:

Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery;
If it weren’t for bad luck,
I’d have no luck at all:
Gloom, despair and agony on me.

filepost.com - dead

account message: This account is suspended

dear avaxteam ;)
tv series are waiting but i can't post because my account at filepost is also suspended.

be flexible and let us use other services while the storm continues.

See rapidshare fan boys????? accounts are being suspended, even if you create a free one on rapidshare and upload content they're gonna suspend it.

Just finished downloading "house" from bitshare at 175KB/s for free user. Wonder why they aren't spooked as, according to LeftyRight, they have both server and office in USA. DepositFiles deleted this episode almost as soon as it appeared.

what now? what else to do? waiting is excruciating painful!!!! what is now the alternative?

It's RS and MF from now on - until new possibilities come up. And they *will* come up...

Also got "Castle" from Megashares at 875KB/s for free user - so I think there is more than RS and MF to choose from.

http://www.wjunction.com/102-file-host-discussion/124874-filehosts-corporate-offices-server-locations.html

Filehost: Server / Office

4shared.com: USA / USA
badongo.com: USA / USA
bitshare.com: USA / USA
bigupload.com: Netherlands / USA
data-loading.com: Germany / Germany
depositfiles.com: USA / Cyprus
crocko.com: Netherlands / Cyprus
filebase.to: Germany / Germany
filefactory.com: Netherlands / Netherlands
files.mail.ru: Russia / Russia
filesonic.com: Netherlands / HongKong
fileserve.com: USA / USA
filepost.com: Hong Kong+USA / Hong Kong
freakshare.com: Netherlands / Seychelles
Ge.tt: Ireland / Denmark
gigasize.com: Canada / Canada
hotfile.com: USA / Panama
hulkshare.com: Netherlands / HongKong
kewlshare.com: Germany / Germany
kickload.com: Germany / United Kingdom
Limelinx.com: Canada / Canada
load.to: Fance /United Kingdom
mediafire.com: USA / USA
megaupload.com: USA / HongKong
netload.in: Germany / Germany
Onlinedisk.ru: Russia / Russia
oron.com: Netherlands / USA
putlocker.com: ?? / Bahamas
rapidshare.com: Germany / Switzerland
remixshare.com: Germany / Germany
sendspace.com: USA / USA
share-now.net: France / HongKong
share-online.biz: Netherlands / Belize
sharebase.to: Netherlands / Germany
sharehoster.com: Germany /United Kingdom
shragle.com: France+Germany / Seychelles
sHost.ch: Switzerland / Switzerland
speedshare.org: Netherlands / Seychelles
speedyshare.com: USA / Seychelles
tinyupload.com: France / Poland
ugotfile.com: USA / Australia
uploaded.to: Netherlands / HongKong
uploadbox.com: Netherlands / USA
uploading.com: Cyprus / Hong Kong
videozer.com: USA / USA
Wupload.com: USA+Netherlands / HongKong
x7.to: Netherlands / HongKong
xup.in: Luxembourg / USA + Malaysia
yourfiles.biz: Netherlands / Netherlands
zippyshare.com: France / Germany
zshare.net: USA / HongKong

NEW & UNCHECKED:
Extabit.com:
Shareflare.net:
Letitbit.net:
turbobit.net:
Hitfile.net:
Novamov
Refile.net / Netherlands(i3d B.V.) / Canada
Jakfile.com / France(Ovh) / Italy

all filehosters with servers or offices in the usa should be banned in protest :)

Hee Haw? OMG, i'm old. I remember that! :(

And finally "Being Human" from Mediafire at 900KB/s for free user. Things aren't as bad as they seem. Just takes a little more work. Still I hate losing my last 2+ months of my filesonic membership.

Wow! Posting on Avaxhome is almost non-existent. No new video, comic or book in hours.

What about new hosts?
Mods can you agree new ones?
bayfiles.com for instance ... (from The Pirate Bay)
Other names?

shit, i'm gonna have to start watching, reading, and listening to all the shit that i downloaded over the past three years now .... ;-)

Not sure about the servers from Russia, but it appears those in China are not safe. Many servers in Hongkong get canned: megaupload, filesonic... China and US are "married" together in terms of economics/tradings. So much are at stake if China ignore US' request regarding action on intellectual property rights.

我买了4个TB的硬盘来装下载的内容，Avaxteam万岁！

@jamiemacnugget ...no kidding, I thought downloading WAS the entertainment and always looked forward to the next episode of 'green progress bar'....always better than what's on TV :P

A good alternative may come from : http://www.anonyupload.com/
but first of all I invite you to read what's written on its mainpage. It's really interesting.

Am I the only one that finds it deeply questionable that uploaders and file hosting sites are making millions of dollars on the back of other peoples work? While I enjoy free the sharing of information, I think that the people that make billions of dollars on illegal content are no better than big media corporations.

The whole scam of paying uploaders for traffic is very convenient for us all. But like after a good party with to many intoxicants, we now wake up and realise that it was an untenable situation.

EITHER WE SHARE FOR FREE - OR WE DON'T SHARE AT ALL!

My 2 cents on the matter...

Anonymous starts file sharing service;

Use this URL : http://anonyupload.com or
http://www.anonyvideo.com

starts 25/26 January. Go to these url's to read more.

what about ziddu? I download a lot of stuff from their servers and it works perfectly fine.

@auweia: it seems to be that we are fans of the same "show" I think I spent more time the last couple of years watching at the green bars than watching some movies.

I agree with TiN5oLDi3r ... sites like megauplaod earn millions not only with other people's copyrights but with the hard work of their uploaders (whom earns plenty of money for their "hard work") as soon as any of us let the money be part of the world of sharing that's when we start to fuck the whole thing up.

I never quit the torrent system nor the ed2k. I use to download stuff from sites like avax, just to post it in small under the radar trackers (and I do it for free. I only get the satisfaction of bring to some mates the films they wanted to see)

If we really want to share, we are going to find a way to do it. If we want to make money in between... well, we shall not cry like a bunch of babies if the FBI, CIA, INTERPOL or any other motherfucker goes knocking on our door.

sorry for my english. from Argentina willing to keep on sharing.

I am sure filehosters work on a "solution" - they might block access to data now but I am sure they are not stupid to delete all the files with which they earned millions.
I cannot imagine all the Filesonic content is gone, what a loss that would be.
Anyhow luckily my FS account expired a few days ago so and i have not yet extended it.

Maybe the filehosters of the future are the ones with servers in countries that dont care much about copyright. Hotfile is located in Panama which might save their ass. I am surprised that non of the famous filhosters are based in Thailand ??? The harddrive factories would be just next door ;)
Btw. 4shared.com is ranked 88 in Alexa's top sites. I wonder how long they are going to make it - everybody knows what content can be found on their servers.
Good luck to Avaxhome, it is, still, a great site !

what a stab in the back from fsc. rapidshare was here before all this drama, i guess there's some reason no one uses them here?

filepost - тоже умер..

Jesus, filehost is so slow as to be unusable. Is this 'cause hordes of folks are
migrating over to it as I type?
Whatever we all do individually, we should try to carry on while it's possible.
for as long as we can, because when/if the EU ratifies ACTA, THEN things will start
to get very seriously bleak.

All you torrent lovers should remind the fact that they are totally unsecure. Thousands of people got busted in Germany loading via torrents. Definetely no solution for people there. @all celebrating the fact that all people are bastards who earn via downloads: Guess you all liked to take what they were giving you, so be quiet.

@luckburz: correct me if I'm wrong but that won't happen in a "invite only" tracker. And using the magnet link instead of the .torrent increases the peer security. even with a tracker with no magnet link, the thing is still difficult for the "prosecutors" because they have to participate of the "swarm" to get the other's peers IP, so they actually have to break the law to get some other "sharers" down, and that fact could be use against them in any trial of copyrights infringement... am I be a little naive? maybe. but it won't be easy for them to get the bittorrent user if as the way the magnet links works, every single peer is a server itself, with a swarm of a couple of millions of "servers" it will get harder for them to get any of the servers down with more servers than they can handle.

Don't hate me ... I'm from Calif., USA. I can see the Hollywood sign from my house and know some rich elite (+ lobbyists) there line pockets of corrupted Washington govt. with $$. Most folks here don't agree with what has happened. "They [U.S. govt/corporate elite] don't speak for me"... is a common response from the vast MAJORITY of USA folks!
Not sure what BEST solution will be ... but there is definitely a LEGITIMATE demand/need for file-sharing. We've all seen the benefits and, hence, huge gains in quality-of-human-life.
There is no going back ... only forward!
New "markets" for totally-USA-free server farms are now up for grabs. E.g., in Switzerland, Russia, China, Brazil/S. America, etc. Maybe folks who run Filesonic/MU/etc. should GET TOGETHER and re-locate to one/all these countries. Because of USA laws/limits on immigration, Microsoft/others already farm out much to India/Indonesia. USA is the sinking ship depicted in the Storm portrait above. So many articles and books on this trend out there (Google "American empire", etc.) It's only the USA govt/military and their brainwashed thugs that have TEMPORARY upper hand ... we are the technocracy and we are the MAJORITY. Arab Spring, Occupy xxx, etc. The younger/stronger/smarter MAJORITY are rising -- the old fogies will be gone soon, one way or another...along with their antiquated philosophies.
Hang tight AVAX folks ... Revolutions are not for the weak. But ... what will emerge will be better, stronger, faster, leaner and meaner!
"God is dead" and "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888.

oron.com clossed affiliate program, but links are still alive.

Geeze ........ some VERY dumb comments on here by many of you people.

Let's use some common sense here, ok?

"I won't back down" - "be brave" - blah, blah - for example, you - erasermau - are you KIDDING??!!? You would PISS YOUR PANTS if the police showed up at your door and arrested you for serious crimes. Why? Because you know they'd "love" you in prison and your a-hole would be so sore you wouldn't be able to sit down after the first night, let alone the authorities seizing your computers, bank account, etc. It's very easy to show 'courage' here posting, but everybody knows that's just lame b.s. and you'd be crying like a baby if the cops got you.

Secondly, most of the world not only could care less about this stuff - THEY ARE NOT EVEN AWARE OF IT - illegal pirated files on the 'net are the business of "us" users, and although we may number in the tens of thousands or more, we are still a minority of the cyber-world whether you want to admit it or not. All this breast-beating is just a waste of kilobits.

Finally, it really doesn't matter where the servers reside, because TRUST ME - the INTERPOL nations can do all sorts of things with 'net connectivity to disrupt access - not to mention the fact that treaties with Russia and China and the more 'democratic' states are more important to their legitimate businesses than trying to protect a few pirate sites - they won't jeopardize trade, internet communications and other such stuff to prevent illegal filesharing in their countries. Sure, it goes on, but if there is a serious request by INTERPOL-states they address it.

SO - the bottom line - things are going to be very tricky for the next few months at least.

And if the powers that be really want to get serious about it - all sorts of technical things can be done on the WWW that can make life for pirates so aggravating that things will come to grinding halt. What if the INTERPOL countries start disconnecting UUB junctors? What then??

So let's can all this silly stupid "revolution" talk - because that's all it is - TALK.

I am sad to say that my country of birth has turned into a Police State, led by a Marxist Barak Obama. The US Congress has acted as an accomplice and enabler to this Tyrant President, who in fact may illegally be occupying the office of the President, as his birth place has not been proven. Congress has granted Obama the power to execute me, you, or anyone at will. He has the power to seize you and imprison you indefinitely without a court order or evidence inditing you for an illegal act. And now, at the whim of privately held corporations, the US under Obama is seizing persons and property in foreign and sovereign countries. The Democratic Party of the US has led the conspiracy to install this Marxist Obama, and continues it assault on the freedoms enumerated in the Law of the Land, the US Constitution. We are no longer free citizens in this republic, we are "subjects, slaves, and objects." Until this Tyrant Obama is deposed, and a leader not beholden to corporations, foreign powers, and corrupt political parties can be freely elected to the Office of President of the United States we shall not remain free.

^ time to take your meds, I think, JAQUEBAUER. What are you - some sort of Tea Party nut? Why are you posting on here????

@JAQUEBAUER

What do you know about Marxism and Tyranny ... stop saying anything ... stupidity seems to be only what you know!

I completely agree with you JAQUEBAUER !...way to go!.. freedom to speak your mind and Scion7777 JAQUEBAUER is probably the only sane and intelligent person who is actually making some sense here!!!

@JAQUEBAUER

Obama a marxist...lol

"and a leader not beholden to corporations, foreign powers, and corrupt political parties can be freely elected to the Office of President of the United States we shall not remain free. " Good luck with that JB.

on another note, already missing finding "foreign films" as I reside in the usa, and I discover so many here, although i have trouble with some of the larger ones, 35 gb for 1 movie? hope this all gets sorted out (soon), and more "foreign films", which i have come to prefer over $ hollywood slam bang blow 'em up fare, and multi millionaire prima donna stars, are posted, with a viable file host. this whole thing feels like some kind of terrible horror movie. have we gotten spoiled? the isp's sit back and collect our money regardless....

What Anonymous say, in relation to anonyupload.com:

"We have NOT affiliation with this site, and by the looks of it, this is a SCAM"

http://i.lulzimg.com/a917950f40.jpg

But, I don't know if this is real or not. F*ck! I put my hope on that.

BTW, freedom on Internet finished when Avaxhome blocked the creation of new posts to some users. STOP THAT! (please.....)

Scion777 wrote: "So let's can all this silly stupid "revolution" talk - because that's all it is - TALK."

No ... You're ALL TALK, if you offer NO PRACTICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING way out of this mess.

Indeed, you should not even post if you use dumbed-down/vulgar language. You don't help "us". The controlling powers that be need to know they are dealing with intellectuals, and not childish, tantrum-prone, diatribers, throwing off unsophisticated comments like "Because you know they'd "love" you in prison and your a-hole would be so sore you wouldn't be able to sit down after the first night." Etc.

And it would help if folks don't refer to file-sharing as "piracy" or "illegal". On the issue of "piracy" ... many folks that REALLY/legitimately feel this way are old-school thinkers (the rest are elites, politicians, govts ;). I don't feel it is. E.g., if someone recorded a worth-watching TV documentary (etc), which I may have missed for various reasons, and posted the video file on a F-S site ... I consider this a kind, back-scratching gesture ... even if that uploader makes a bit of totally-legit $ for their effort. Many file-sharers are good about thanking each other and rating stuff they file-share (e.g. IMDB, Amazon, promote the file/work via social-netwrk sites like Twitter/Facebook/Reddit, etc.) ... and THAT can help the ORIGINAL artist/author financially/politically/socially and/or help improve their art or academic work.

Inside Megaupload's Megamind: Kim Dotcom's Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror

http://www.fastcompany.com/1810015/inside-megaupload-megamind-kim-dotcom-wild-history-of-playboy-bunnies-russian-nuclear-vessel

The scaremongering that is happening around this issue is pure nonsense! I saw a video on YouTube yesterday where some guy was telling us that we will all be extradited to USA forced labour prisons if we have downloaded even 1 file from MegaUpload??? He also said that 25% of the US population had downloaded from MU. 25% of the US adult population is around 50 million people! In the UK it's about 12 million. If they had to process 50 million through the courts, plus extradite and prosecute 12 million UK citizens, their legal process & courts will be tied up for a century. This is ridiculous!! Nothing will happen! This is occuring because it is an election year in the USA, and the politicians, backed by lawyers and financial contributions from the MPAA & RIAA etc, are flexing their muscles to get elected/force through their blinkered poicies on copyright.

Although I don't see this as a "revolution", I do think that we need to fight it! This can be done in many ways, one of which, if you are a US citizen, is to look where the contributions to you local representative are coming from before you vote for them! Also get together and/or sign petitions, and various other things. Most of all, don't give up!!

Lastly, a quick note about file hosts. I believe that some of the problems that we find ourselves in, have been caused by the point/reward systems offered by file hosting companies. These rewards were never a part of the original idea of sharing and mutual cooperation behind the original Warez and torrent sites. More and more people over hte last few years are only uploading because there is something in it for them, and this has helped to bring us to where we are today! My guess is that when the dead file hosts come back, or new ones arise to take their place, that they will NOT be offering rewards for uploading/downloading. So...get used to less stuff being available, and start giving more appreciation for the efforts of those who still provide for us all.

Love & Liberty to all!! :-D

13mh13 - are you 10 years old or something? Do you even understand telephony or IP technology? THERE IS NO WAY OUT OF THIS MESS as you want wish to put it. Until things cool off the only thing to do is sit tight.

And INTERPOL didn't go after FILESHARING - they went after sites dealing with pirated movies, music, etc. That's why we are calling a spade a spade.

For God's sake USE YOUR HEAD.

INFO MEGAUPLOUD (german only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyr4915UU8&feature=relmfu

JabJab wrote:
"25% of the US adult population is around 50 million people! In the UK it's about 12 million. If they had to process 50 million through the courts, plus extradite and prosecute 12 million UK citizens, their legal process & courts will be tied up for a century. This is ridiculous!! Nothing will happen! "
But something DID happen ... because the powers-that-be found out there is a MUCH EASIER solution. Stop the SUPPLY ... and stop it at the very top, using scare-tactics. And it has partially worked ... for the time being.
I see VERY little media coverage of this in the US. The BBC gave it a LITTLE attn in their Technology section. So maybe that's (BBC, major news sites, etc) where file-sharers should ALSO be posting comments.

I'd like to suggest that there is a powerful weapon; Mirror.
In this moment I think that that silly phrase 'pls no mirror!' sounds 'funny'! I'd say the contrary 'pls ADD as many mirror you can!". Anyone who can, please do mirror, flooding the net of all the archives that you have in your HDs. The server 1 goes down? let's go onto 2 and then onto 3, 4, 5... don't discuss about which server is better or not, it's a stupid question; they are risking arrest, it's obvious they are scared and they are even ready to shut down, but at least 1 there will be.

Until you spread your ideas, nobody can cage them, if you keep it in your mind and somebody stops you, the idea is dead.

This is my suggest: if you want share your files with Fileserve and Filesonic, you may share your userid and password too, because these two cyberlockers don't delete the files, but make them accessible only to whom have uploaded them.

More irritating then arguing between ourselves is the fact that no one from avaxhome staff doesn't replay to this discussion. I read every comment in this news and I noticed that some people ask the staff some questions but they are not participating in this mess at all. Where is backup or at least their opinion for this matter? I see members strong will to do something about it, not all members uploaded their files for the profit and there is still members willing to upload stuff to other servers and post links here, but according to the rules on avaxhome we can't do that until they change it or we might get banned from the site. Without new rules awaxhome will become just another discussion site, nothing more. Lot of us trying to save this place and to do so we need feedback from the owners. I don't see them so I ask myself a lot of questions and many of them are not pretty. At least they should open book section (on my opinion most valued here, movies and music can be downloaded via torrent for the time being) and give us right to choose host site on our own.
Remember, every fight demands knowledge. Be smart, don't talk rubbish!

Why not use Filejungle or uploadstation?

13mh13 wrote:
"But something DID happen ... because the powers-that-be found out there is a MUCH EASIER solution. Stop the SUPPLY ... and stop it at the very top, using scare-tactics. And it has partially worked ... for the time being."

I was really talking about what would/wouldn't happen to individual Up/downloaders who were registered on MU's servers. I understand your point about scare tactics at the top. In a way, this was my point about reward points; those who were offering this are the ones that have fled in the face of adversity, and that's not a coincidence. RapidShare, who stopped rewards some time ago, are still up and running, and genuinely don't seem to be concerned about prosecution.

The reason that you are not seeing much media coverage is that the media companies don't want to draw direct attention to their own role in it, there is a conflict of interest situation here! The BBC is publicly funded, so is able to report without having to answer to shareholders.

Scion777:
I'm trying to understand your comments. Sincerely. I could not find much on INTERPOL's *serious* interest in this matter. Just the Megaupload vs. DoJ. My query terms: "Filesharing INTERPOL" and several iterations/versions. So ....links/refs please ....

JAQUEBAUER is right you know, they can accuse you of something and put you in jail, it's up to you to prove otherwise or you will stay there for many many years. The Police State isn't something new, the warning for it is many years old. The singing Obama made people laugh and thinking he is so good, but it was merely a starting signal for the raid against MegaUpload. They said he wouldn't do it, why?, is it so hard to sing one line of a song, NO, it was simply a tough decission of which there was no return and could cost more than it would benefit.

The entertaiment industry has so much money flowing, and the greedy bastards can't stand it if they miss a single dime of it. Be serious, have you seen any great movie the last couple of years ? I haven't that's for sure. Then we have all the (so called) remasters of the past year. You already paid for the CD you have laying around, but they want you to buy it again, and again and again. Remaster my ass, they put the volume and bass so high (e.g. Metallica's Death Magnetic) that the music is beyond recognition, but hey, we will give you the opportunity to buy it again in several years.

As far as my sharing on AvaxHome (under a different name) : It didn't bring me any money, not a single dime. I used my earnings to extend my premiums so i could continue bringing new shares. Not in the likes of e.g. Share'emAll etc. who keeps pumping in new posts every single day and almost forcing downloaders to buy premiums to keep up. I've made some nice posts here and made sure links were up and running (until Avax decided to kick me out, but that's a different story).

"Be serious, have you seen any great movie the last couple of years ? "

One of the BEST things about high-volume AVAX-style, for-the-serious-crowd, file sharing (and, then, actually, skimming and scanning those files for "interesting" or "smart" content) is finding how much of it is not "great". Be they movies, books, music, etc.
Someone noted this earlier (and not news to many, perhaps) that it is THIS sort of filtered awareness -- the wheat from the chaff ... and that there are both on a continuum -- of posted content (files) that makes the AVAX blog valuable. Above-average-IQ people come here, and they get smarter via reading/browsing. It's a sort of meta-level education.

Let's see what happened by now:

1 -ONE- hoster was closed by the authorities, ran by a let's say dubious owner who was maybe not the sharpest knife on earth. His behaviour was a static provocation of rights owners and authorities.

Everything else happened by now is some sort of panic reaction and has nothing to do with a "war" on the internet. So be calm, next week everything will be normal again, i'm sure.

The badest thing about these actions is all the LEGAL content which has been erased by the authorities. You will NEVER get that back.

@erasermau:

Invite only may work for small communities, but not for the big masses. And even agent provocateurs of the industry can get these. There were already cases in e2k that these spyfirms in Germany like Pro Media did set up a fake server to spy on the people.

And at last: Try to prove that they got their logs ilegally...

So now its clear, the rise of kapitalism against people in iminent. Better listen to your buddys and stow all of your data in the web, so you can get access from everywhere,and now u know what that means..............fu.. this bloody kapitalists

Forever: Knowledge hat to be free for all at any costs anywhere, if its not your war is right go fu.. them

have a good time

Hawkmoon

You have to know that,

.com
.net
.org

America will control that web sites after SOPA, so you have to chose different ones.
etc. netload.in uploaded.to ....

Filepost.com in danger to, do not put files there.

@cem3203
If that's true, why extabit.com still have affiliate program and didn't do what rest most did?
We had yesterday huge amount of falling, suppose they got ultimatum and time given to disable some features, but yet extabit.com works. Why?

"...Thank you Avaxhome, for sailing the ship with the flag held up high ! We are all with you..!" I like it! Yes, THANK YOU AVAXHOME!!

@ Lococapriccio

SOPA is not voted yet in american senato.

C'mon guys, no need to argue and fight amongst yourselves, this is a time for us all to be united and stand up against cruel capitalism and money mongers. Has anybody started a vote against these policies ? maybe start something on FB ? we can be strong in making numbers in support of the cause, whilst the hackers show strength on the frontline !

Hey, like in the beginings the only server is Rapidshare

oron is dead.

Too many people walk around thinking that SHARING is illegal and PIRACY, etc.
They need to change their views. Sharing is a personal right, and there will be no more humanitarianism in the world if we stop SHARING !!

Should we NOT help other countries in need ?
Should we NOT help contribute to social programs ?
Should we NOT help our neighbour ?
Should we NOT help a friend ?
Should we NOT lend anything or lift a finger when expected to ?

Sharing files is not different from sharing food, cars, clothing or anything else.
SHARING is part of our idealogy, it keeps us humane !

DO a video for youtube .. send a message

Can't Avaxhome create it's own fileserver and charge us one fee for all downloads ???

Long life to AvaxHome !Go on fighting!
We are with you from all around the world!
"VIVRE LIBRE OU MOURRIR ! "

netload.in
uploaded.to

working good for now.

Filepost, for me, is dead...

We have enough software available to battle against this no?
Let's start with one that masks our IP addresses ..

so why we don't use torrent as way out ?

rs.com ...
working still, with good and safe quality

Rapidshare works great and fast (around 2 Mb/s).

Sharing is just like going to the local library... I take out a book, read it. If it's good, I buy it and/or recommend it to family and friends. There's no theft involved. Same with music. I listen to stuff online and buy it or not, or I'll just go to a gig instead and pay the band direct! Movies, a good one I'd rather see in a cinema than take my chance downloading a dodgy out of focus copy.

But what these people are missing is that we don't share their view on ownership. I mean, if we look at most books, movies, music, etc, they are copies of copies of copies. It's all reguritation and so little creativity, especially when it comes to Hollywood. So where does piracy end???

> Posted By: scutter Date: 24 Jan 2012 03:47:52
> filepost.com - dead
> account message: This account is suspended

Some of your good stuff is still there!
I'm currently d/l from FILEPOST at FULL SPEED!

Scion7777 Date: 24 Jan 2012 08:57:30 wrote: "Geeze ........ some VERY dumb comments on here by many of you people."

Dear Scion7777: We, the many people, are still waiting for your VERY intelligent comment.

cem3203 wrote: "SOPA is not voted yet in american senato."

SOPA & PIPA have both now been withdrawn as propsals!

If it weren't for "pirate-"copied American textbooks, S. Korea may very well have remained
poor and undeveloped. Google "Korea pirate textbook economy ha joon chang" or read Chang's Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. (Watch the Democracynow.org video from 2009)
Bottom line: to survive, thrive or get the most out of life ... you gotta do what you gotta do 'cause it's a jungle out there.

Hi everyone. There will always be servers out there, but there is a lot of info on filesonic. As opposed to megaupload, the info is still there.Isn't there any way of getting it ?
Let's face it. I am sure filesonic's management understands no one will pay them for storage alone.Unless they find a way to resume opening the access, they're as good as dead.
As for financial issues, stopping sharing will not help artists or production companies.
Now, that I can't download books, I won't buy them. If I had money for that, I would have bought them in the first place. I agree with lust for life 2. Publishing companies will not see revenues from the closing of sharing websites. As usual the poor will suffer. The rich and powerfull will stay that way.

ORON has stopped their Affiliate program.
NETLOAD.IN does not work.

Currently, depositfiles.com is ok

@ JabJab

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Hi everyone,

Struggle for life !!! Viva Avax and the ones who will fight against this .

@seemymind

netload is back, for now...

“

Why was MegaUpload really shut down? In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ) I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label. "UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free. "We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

”

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq

Just We'll find the way, we wont be defeated even if Avaxhome falls because of the money. Sharing will never stop.

why FBI does not paid by the Phoenicians for the alphabet :)

Aha! To be astounded. An army of assholes, an association armed with an arsenal of asinine ambiguously adult anonymity. This antiquated armada, no mere attack force, is an astounding assembly of articulate aristocrats. Assuming the collective affliction has not abruptly atrophied, another day of ardent internet arguments arises. Under the ambiguous aegis of internet anonymity, all annoying assertions may be announced with reckless abandon. Apology? Do not forgive.
Alas, I am aflutter. After the anticipation.

You may call me Anonymous

By Anonymous

Send a message !!

@luger7

Hear Hear!! Let's all make sure there is still a free internet tomorrow!!

What is next ?? YOUTUBE !!!!

@scion7777 the one I see scaremongering to the other's avax memebers with his pants already wet is you. You kinda remind me Jessie Slaughter's father yelling at us you dun goofed! and the ciberpolice is going to backtrace you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-cAsvzsh0

I couldn't agree more with @jabjab, if they go after everyone that's shares copyrighted material they don't have the system to do that... Taringa has 17 million posters. And is just one site.

we had this problem over and over again (with napster, audiogalaxy, supernova, even with the ed2k... but the emule and torrent are still working, aren't they?)

I won't stop sharing. You can do whatever you want, burn you own pc down to ashes, and cover your head with a blanket praying for the police not come knocking at your door or you can try to find a way to keep spreading the knowledge. If we all stop they've already win without fighting.

18 months ago the people running Avaxhome decided to eject Rapidshare as the default filesource.
Suddenly 'Sharingmatrix' was the new boy on the block, and since they were offering cash to uploaders, RS was almost never used.
People who were never able to download anything because SM never worked for many non premium customers, were ignored.

Since a Sharingmatrix link was one of the approved hosts, and no mirrors were allowed - then 'tough luck', if you can't download, you can't have the item. Even when it was made clear that no download meant no revenue to the uploader, the attitude was still 'nope' no mirrors. So both uploader and downloaders lost through selfishness and stuborness.

SM became Filesonic, and likewise this site was inaccessible to many users, and offered slow speeds even to many premium downloaders. Still it was common to see files offered with only a Filesonic link - and 'no mirrors' allowed.

If you search through 'AVAX News' you will still see the announcements of 'Strategic Partnerships' - Sharingmatrix, Filesonic, Wupload, etc ... Where are they now ?

How short sighted to refuse alternative links / mirrors, to try and force people to download from a site, when you've been told we were UNABLE to download.

Since these uploaders hijacked what was a perfectly well run site in pursuit of $$$ - the whole model has changed.

Many people now only come to Avax to search and see what is available each day, and then go to search for the items they want on, other sites offering a choice of links.

The people running AVAX who happily FORCED Filesonic on members, now call FS 'cowardly rats.'

Uploaders need downloaders and vice versa.

Unfortunately AVAX and the uploaders both thought they could hold everyone else to ransom.

'Our way or the highway.'

Now even your preferred hosts have abandoned you.

If AVAX goes under, it is the people now running the site and the cash whores who destroyed it.

You were warned of the problems of FS, but you chose to ignore the warnings.

@telebox123: That's the reason why no one from the avaxteam are saying anything (within the 360 posts).

well say telebox123 !!!
thats the reason i stopped to come and make publication on avax...for the last 2 years avax has become a big bizness for ppl running the site and for a group of ppl only here to generate money in making publications.
i m not sad for them ... they all killed themself with their greediness!
time is come to go back to the roots and to the real sharing spirit!!!

I'm not sure fighting amongst ourselves is going to help much, nor can we change anything that's happened in the past.

I just know I'm going through withdrawal symptoms and hope someone will find a way out of this. Peace.

I was doing some math ... most of my FS hard-drive space has been used for classical-music albums sourced from classical Blogs, almost all of which are on Blogspot. Google owns Blogger/Blogspot. And Google has power. Hope they realize the slippery slope the govt./corporate elites (and their thugs DoJ, FBI, CIA, etc) are steering toward.

When all these file hosts abandon ship at once, it sends a "We're Guilty" signal. Not good ... so come back and do the Stoic thing. They can't send every hosting company employee to jail. Not in this age of Mobile phones, Facebook and Twitter. If poor, mostly technophobes in the Arab world can bring a little revolution, it's absurd to think the technocrats and body politic in the Broadband West can't.

Scion7777 wrote: "Until things cool off the only thing to do is sit tight."
Dunno about Scion777 ... but I feel evey second we delay on retaliation gives them (and their lawyers and lobbyists) opportunites to discuss/refine/better plan their attack (much as we are doing on our end)

Possibly the worst case scenario is for some sort of precedence to be set... so this thing has to be nipped in the bud NOW before it snowballs into some sort of written law. The lawmakers could then say ... you kept silent so we assume you agreed with us.

Note that the U.S. is, by its Constitution, not a true democracy (esp. by doctrine but also by the orig. def.). The US is a Constitutional Republic. Which means NO majority rule.
Possibly the most "respected" Found. Father had the audacity to say ...

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson is, in many ways, full of elitest shit. But even by the orig. def. I'm sure WAY more than 51% want a corporate-greed-free Internet.

Filepost.com: Cool new hoster: This account is suspended: abused!
So, I will give you a good advise: Don't buy this!

13mh13

51% can be and want it, but that's only the U.S. no longer a constitutional state

The US wants to control the world .. their laws does not and cannot extend outside it's borders unless we let them by ratifying their rules .. this is just one example of their attempts.

May I suggest a site?
How about Uploadking dot com, it is not widely used from what I understand and therefor not slow at this moment.

Just a thought.

@telebox123
I agree with you on this:

"Many people now only come to Avax to search and see what is available each day, and then go to search for the items they want on, other sites offering a choice of links."

Most of the content I search for is here, but can't be downloaded... at least not from most of the filehosts used, and no free and decent mirrors are allowed, so what should I do if I want that item, search for it somewhere else where I can download, that's it.

The sad true... -_-

Most of stuff will be re-uploaded. When situation become more stable.

i wanted to give filepost a second chance but is imposible to upload, getting all type of errors.

please remove the filepost rule some days...
tons of material is waiting :)

"Most of stuff will be re-uploaded. When situation become more stable. "

//signed.

"i wanted to give filepost a second chance but is imposible to upload, getting all type of errors."

It seems that Filepost does what Hotfile did: Mass deleting of user accounts. By now i can log in, but i saw tons of screenshots of deleted accounts. It will be just a matter of time.

"please remove the filepost rule some days..."

Hope so.

As i suggested before: Give the freedom of choice for next two weeks or as long as it may take to get this situation stable. I'm just posting the rest of the stuff already upped to filepost. No new ones will be added.

Tried to cancel my filesonic account with paypal, by escalating to a claim -they suggest you do so!. Here's what I got:
"Your item is not covered by PayPal Buyer Protection. Thus, we are not able to help you at this point.

However, if more claims are being filed against this seller within the next 180 days we will review this case more closely.

Please contact the seller directly to solve this case. We have to debit the reversal amount as well as a 5 EUR processing fee from your PayPal account."

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As i suggested before: Give the freedom of choice for next two weeks or as long as it may take to get this situation stable

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That's my suggestion too. I think it's the only way out of this deadlock situation. The continuity of this place is at stake now. No doubt people will come up with the weirdest of services, but as long as they work it should be OK for the time being.

Multihosters, perhaps? There are several. Flameupload, Multiupload, Mirrorcreator etc.

And Filesonic started to suspend accounts.

Filepost upload speed 8 kb/s 1980s like :-)

FilePost d/l speed in the 3-5kbps range then they denied all connections from my JDownloader.

The rules for which host are required to use here has changed so many times (first it was Rapidshare and another free site, then Rapidshare got dropped and now - who knows?) that publishers have had to continually enroll in new sites just to keep the moderators here happy. Today it's Filepost and next month it'll be someone else. The whole process of filesharing has turned into more trouble than it's worth for me. The few remaining sites are a joke, they're so slow that listening to the radio seems like a better deal.

3hrs between downloads on Filepost it's a joke!

Evil China blocked most of well-known file hosting sites around the earth years ago, certainly they lost 1.5+ billions potential downloaders!

But the Filepost, Uploading, Wupload, UniBytes, Filejungle and depositfiles are OK.:)

To the tune of "Where Did All the Good Times Go" by the Classics IV:

We lived in the country when I was a child
Copied lots of albums, bought tape by the mile
We pirated away the hours, dubbing to and fro
Ahoy there matey, where did the good times go?

Along came the internet, watch movies with nothing paid
Click the mouse and Shiver me timbers! we got it made!
Somebody pulled the plug, what happened, I don't know
Ahoy there matey, where did all the good times go?

Where did all the good times go? Where did they go?
Ahoy there Matey, if you know, where did the good times go?

WARNING:

To those who are being lulled asleep by the PIPA/SOPA bill being put aside.... It's the oldest trick in the book. They make it look like you have a victory by shelving the bill, but will sneak it through by placing it in another bill that has nothing to do with the internet. This cloak and dagger technique is always used so watch out for it - don't go back to sleep.

"please remove the filepost rule.." its pathetic as a service.. 4kb/s...
MOD's what's the issue with rapidshare? why don't you allow it on avaxhome ?

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what's the issue with rapidshare? why don't you allow it on avaxhome ?

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rapidshare doesn't pay out.

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To those who are being lulled asleep by the PIPA/SOPA bill being put aside.... It's the oldest trick in the book. They make it look like you have a victory by shelving the bill, but will sneak it through by placing it in another bill that has nothing to do with the internet. This cloak and dagger technique is always used so watch out for it - don't go back to sleep.

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SOPA is a red herring. Makes a good smokescreen so people get all bent out of shape and not notice the passing OPEN-Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, which has far worse repercussions than SOPA or PIPA can even begin to address.

SOPA is a distraction and will probably be shot down due to the exposure it is receiving. It is there to take attention away from other measures being put into play to achieve the same intended goals. If you actually read the legislation, SOPA and PIPA are essentially the same thing, the only difference being there is some language in SOPA pertaining to fake military items, fake drugs and badges with brands on them. The purpose of these 2 bills is not to extend any sort of new powers to those looking to snuff out piracy, rather they outline new penalties to an existing piece of legislation called the Lanham Act, pertaining to trademark law. The purpose of SOPA has been trumped up purposely to be a distraction, it will get all these rally cries, petitions, protests, etc, like you are seeing now. Eventually it will get shot down, assuring a false sense of victory all the while OPEN is silently getting passed under the radar.

OPEN has a section of language in it that defines a scenario in which piracy is not able to even exist. It outlines a plan, partnered with support of ICANN, to restructure the way in which the DNS and WHOIS system works. It involves implementing new top-level domain systems, doing away with the old .com, .net, .org, etc systems. Let's say you have a site selling t-shirts, under the new system you can have a .tshirt domain name. These new domains will have to be registered using a new "thicker whois" system, requiring you to provide irrefutable proof as to your identity before you are allowed to have a site. Proof such as SS#, Passport, things of this ilk. Over time, older sites will have to comply to the "thicker whois" system or they will be phased out. This also applies for international IPs as well. This is about you having to register and prove who you are or else you can't get a domain name.

filepost sucks, this rule sucks. I paid for one year premium and they delete my account, I'm not stupid enough to buy it again.

rapidshare is working fine and fast...1,4/Mbs

Mr. telebox123 is completely wrong. It was the Rapidshit themselves who made Avax people angry because of their constant changes of policy. I well remember that during 2009-10. I even used to have a few Premium accounts (only a month periods obviously). I was more than happy they decided for FileSonic. I spent nice continuous 5 months of Premium membership with FileSonic last summer without any fucking changes of the rules every second month, no download quotes no messing around with hours. If FileSonic is under a siege of FBI whoever it is time to pack the goods and say good bye. In the end, it is all these morons like Mr. Telecrap who tend to be greedy and want to download the whole world in one night to pack their nerdy NASes with rubbish they never ever need, that come over here and moan and cry... just get off somewhere else please...

@1541-II

I thought you stated some time ago you were leaving this site ? You also stated that anyone here was only fit to pick potatoes.

Yet ... here you are.

Still trolling at a site you claimed you had no time for.

As for me being wrong ? Errr ... the site worked very well when Rapidshare was the choice (note the word CHOICE) of most posters. Nobody would have objected if other links were posted as mirrors. Anyone who had good luck downloading from RS, FF, MU, DF or whichever host would have been welcome to do so.

When RS changed their terms, fine, any uploader would have been free to drop them and use any other hosts that they liked.

Filesonic became the default site for many posters, because the spirit of sharing was replaced by the chance to earn $$$.

Though you neglect to mention how an uploader will earn revenue from downloaders who CANNOT download.

No Download = No Income. ... Comprende ?

As regards Filesonic - or 'Cowardly rats' as the people running this site referred to them ... how are they working out for you as a host / source ?

What are you getting from them ... or Fileserve ... or Wupload ?

As regards your choice of username .... naming yourself after a piece of obsolete technology isn't really the best idea.

Anyway, enough - back to the potato field with you. Next time get one of the potatoes to post, it will be better placed to construct a more valid argument than you would ever be able to come up with.

Looks like things are reverting back to normal here.

Thanks for everything and good luck, g.

To those who haven't caught on yet: people here aren't going to post on RapidShare because RapidShare doesn't have an affiliate program, and thus won't pay out any money for every download. Simple as that. It's because the uploaders don't want to do it for free. (Why else do you think they would split movies into 10 RAR files, and say 'no mirrors'?)

@1541-II

The Commodore Kid is back with the same old drivel. Avax went down the money route the same way as Megaupload (and look what happened to them). You seem to have a grudge against RS for some reason and a particularly nasty elitist attitude to everyone else on here. I only hope that if the FBI get round to raiding Filesonic your name pops up first when they start wading through all the records they confiscate.

The chance to make money...I posted here on AVAX from day one when the bs for filesonic started months ago. I argued that using downloads of file sharing booty and basically stolen files to make money is a criminal enterprise and makes those who do it thieves in violation of all sorts of international laws with serious racketeering weight behind it, so the aholes who want to make money from file sharing were sure to bring this kind of heat...SIMPLE FILE SHARING without making money is not a real crime, so the feds stayed away...but the MU and FS crap gave the feds the criminal weight to go after them....you all who participated in the MU and so forth served up this problem on a plate made of pennies and a few dollars. The aholes always get the ahole reward. I live in a remote area and the file sharing for me is about watching the films or maybe exploring some new software, not about making a few bucks to sell it to some other ahole....before FS came along AVAX was a better place, the selection was better, the diversity was better. The self destruction of Rapidshare was a bad deal, the Rapidshare people just went bat shit crazy and lost their mines and blew it up. Yet by getting on the FS bandwagon and so forth, you guys who did that have done way more damage to the philosophy and ultimate revolution that is file sharing at this moment in history. MegaUpload loaded the gun and gave it to the government on a golden platter by file sharing for profit......if you need money go get a job. I am glad AVAX is still standing, it would be a sad sad day to loose AVAX. Simple File sharing is one thing, selling the intellectual property of other people for money is a straight up crime. For straight up crime they can kick in your door, and shoot you dead and take everything....so good call by all of you FS and megaUpload co-conspirators, as yet un-indicted. I ended up using FS just so I could keep watching some films but I never tried to make any money, I left that part turned off. No judgement, people will do what they are going to do, but sometimes at least, try to pay attention.

Blackwatchplaid wrote:

"rapidshare doesn't pay out"

That's it folks, that's the real reason!! They stopped RS here and on other sites because RS stopped "paying out". This sums up the spirit of the majority of the warez scene in 2012...f*ck sharing, it's about getting paid out. Now ask yourselves again why all this shit is happening? Answer...GREED!!

JabJab is absolutely correct! What separates characters like Blackwatchplaid from the scumbags who ran Megaupload? Nothing. All criminals who profit from stolen goods. A far cry from file-sharing.

I guess many of the people discussing here mix up cause and effect. Not Avax dropped Rapidshare because they did not pay out - RS dropped his own affiliate program and confused nearly every user (uploader & leecher) with their new rapids and whatever strategy. As you may remember they changed their system twice a week for some time. By now RS is a stable hoster again, that's true. But why use a stable hoster if there are lots of others? Filesonic was stable and working pretty well - premium and free. RS was still a long time in the avax list of prefered hosts - dropping them at last was simply logical because nearly no one was using it anymore. And do not forget: You had to use only one hoster from the list, but you could use as many other hosters as you wanted. It is still the same. Filepost must, everything else can.

So every poster has his reasons for his choice. And of course, many want to earn some cash. Where is the problem? Quality shares - if selfmade - cost a lot of time and depending on what you share you cannot do this for a living... So it`s just an extra. All the guys bashing on $$$ Shares should question themselves why they do so. I guess it is mostly because you do not get the things you want FOR FREE in HIGH SPEED as MUCH AS YOU WANT. I'm grateful that there are people outthere sharing their rarities with us, and i don't care if it takes 5 Minutes to download or 6 hours.

I did share as there were no rewards anywhere and will still share if there will be none. All money coming in from the rewards (trust me: very few) is spend on new CDs which will be shared then. Win:Win situation.

Anybody knows if there are some casualties today? How is going on the front war?

what's for sure is that megaupload seems to be transforming to www.meegaupload.net

@luckburz - methinks you're the one confusing "cause & effect" because, under a different avax nym, I was an extremely prolific poster with over 70+ music shares (classical & jazz, including over a dozen vinyl hi-rez rips when it wasn't very fashionable then -- can you guess?) and posted exclusively on Rapidshare. ALL of my shares were self-ripped. Imagine ripping vinyl to digital with high-end gear, tweaking it through several stages of software, manually photographing the artwork (albums don't scan:) and upping the whole 1.8+ MB to a host...just for the sheer love of sharing your work with others. Difficult to imagine for many of the current greedy scavengers, ain't it?

After RS stopped it's rewards program (something I never could figure out:) I continued to use them -- strictly to share, nothing more. It was (and still is) the most reliable & fastest host around. When the profiteers moved in and started peddling so-called shares (many of which were leeched from torrents & obscure music sites) for money (to buy more CDs I'm sure...*LOL*) with the Avax-sanctioned scum sites, RS eventually went away...and I dropped out. And most of the new "shares" on Filesonic, Filepost, et al. that I want can still be found elsewhere...probably the original sources.

So please, let's stop the hypocrisy and pious posturing. Those who share in the true spirit of the concept use the most convenient hosts around...regardless of their reward system. And they don't split 320MB albums into 4 or 5 parts...many times with yet another file for the "artwork". Give me a break!

There! I've had my last vent on the topic. You do your thing, I'll do mine...but these phony and pious rationalizations are enough to make a cat laugh.

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What separates characters like Blackwatchplaid from the scumbags who ran Megaupload? Nothing. All criminals who profit from stolen goods. A far cry from file-sharing.

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Ahem.

I have never in my life earned a penny from file sharing. In the past I used rapidshare. That's it. I continued to use rapidshare for years when everyone else turned into a money hungry cash whore. I never once used any of the fileS*** host whores. I pointed out the reason Avax stopped using rapidshare, which was in direct opposition to my own stance and record.

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www.meegaupload.net

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^^^ this is a fake site meant to scam you. Don't use it!

i definitely don't intend to use it, it was however reported on the international media...
but thanks for the flag

@sybmta:
I don`t get where exactly i'm confusing "cause & effect" in your story... Help me out. You say the same as i did: RS was still in Avax AFTER they dropped their reward system. I know there are these torrent-to-hoster sharer, and i guess they were making more money then the few bucks that i get ;-). No one likes them - but no one is forced to load from them. They will never be a reason for me to stop my work. If you did - fine, your decision, but not avaxs fault. RS was out, Megaupload was in. Another stable hoster for free users with high speed and acceptable waiting. Only the last time here was hard in the choice from the list - if you disliked filesonic. Again: i cannot see a reason to bash Filesonic from my side. I had always a stable connection and good speed.

"Imagine ripping vinyl to digital with high-end gear, tweaking it through several stages of software, manually photographing the artwork (albums don't scan:) and upping the whole 1.8+ MB to a host...just for the sheer love of sharing your work with others. Difficult to imagine for many of the current greedy scavengers, ain't it?"

I certainly can - cd ripping is atm for me just a fill-in until i can rip vinyl again. ;-)

"with another part for the "artwork"."

That is bullshit of course, but in my eyes better than all these shares with no artwork... :-)

"And they don't split 320MB albums into 4 or 5 parts."

Larger parts bring a higher revenue ;-) For serious: I experimented myself with different sizes. Large parts are good for free users with stable and fast connections, but remember: not everyone here has high speed internet or stable connections. Smaller parts do make sense for sharing. I was thinking about giving the choice between 1x 400MB part and additional 4x100MB, but my connection is so f####g slow, that it would take days.

"There! I've had my last vent on the topic. You do your thing, I'll do mine...but this false piety is a total joke. "

There is no false piety in what i have written. As i said: everyone is still free in choice to use RS as a host. I will not do, but i quit RS before they stopped rewarding, because i do not want my government to get my IP. That is the only reason why i personally will never use RS again. And the next thing is that most people crying for RS are leechers who do not share anything. I can accept people like you if they share or did share, but i'm not willing to accept crying by people only taking and not giving. As long as the things are accessable for free users - where is the problem?

And by the way: Does anybody really think, that the industry will let hosters serve illegal copies just because the hoster does not reward this share? That's hilarious. They just have to grow enough that they can crop them. Rapidshare was once the one, now Megaupload. Don't know who by now is the next bigger one...

thank you telebox123. well said.

Filepost is a joke! Please something else! (sorry I just posted a similar comment in a different thread... I'm just annoyed!)

hey wizn - the "us" ? You mean the U.S.?

in case you didn't notice, this was a joint US/UK-New Zealand-China operation in law enforcement. And France aided also.

Any company in any country can bring about their local law enforcement to go after copyright violations.

Wake up and snort the coffeegrounds.

wizn - stop promoting this shit. It has already been proven to be a HOAX, and NOTHING to do with Anonymous group.

"Posted By: yeejay Date: 24 Jan 2012 09:54:40
What Anonymous say, in relation to anonyupload.com:

"We have NOT affiliation with this site, and by the looks of it, this is a SCAM"

edit: i see wizn's posts have disappeared. he must have been banned.

I just noticed that Fileserve seems to be back up????

My Account showing active again and giving access to files.

I have not tried to download yet!

BlackwatchPlaid wrote:

"Ahem.

I have never in my life earned a penny from file sharing. In the past I used rapidshare. That's it. I continued to use rapidshare for years when everyone else turned into a money hungry cash whore. I never once used any of the fileS*** host whores. I pointed out the reason Avax stopped using rapidshare, which was in direct opposition to my own stance and record"

Hi, my original post was not intended to be a personal critisicm of you, I was using your point about RS stopping rewards as a springboard for my own views about warez going from being about sharing, to being about personal gain. I hope no offence is taken; none was intended!

With regard to others comments about those whining being leechers, I share on private torrent trackers, where ther are no reward systems, and continued membership depends upon maintaining a good seed/leech ratios. Much of the stuff on these trackers later appears on warez sites, re-uploaded by others. I wouldn't complain, as I would wish to propagate the idea of sharing by any means; not just in terms of warez/torrents, but in terms of everyday life.

FileServe is definitely NOT working for me wrt DOWNLOAD. But they just auto-deducted from my PayPal account. Shame on me for not cancelling this subscription.
Something I have noticed ... all file-hosting services are (WRT download speed) MUCH slower than before "The Storm".
This includes RapidShare.
Before "the Storm": >1MB/s
After (and current): <0.3MB/s
I'm in Los Angeles, Calif. USA, and otherwise have excellent Earthlink cable ISP.

"I have never in my life earned a penny from file sharing. "
Ditto here and have NO plans to in the future. That said, I have NOTHING against others earning a little to provide a (IMO) Public-Library-type service.
IP rights lawyers say there is a diff. between broadcast/cable media (and libraries) VS. private file-sharing. In reality, many of the files downloaded by FS are treated like Library-borrowed media or timeshifting TV progs -- e.g, TV shows are erased after watching (is this any diff than traditional DVD/VCR timeshifting? Nope!).

Lawyers, corporate CEOs and politicians only protect their interest -- they have no real interest in legitimate ethics, copyright and IP ownership.

Scion7777, in his/her usual emotional and one-dimensional style wrote: "Any company in any country can bring about their local law enforcement to go after copyright violations."

They CAN, but that does not mean they WILL. In fact, given the historical "success" of file-sharing (and overwhelming PUBLIC and some-corporate (=Google, Yahoo, etc.)) OPPOSITION to Net-policing is the RULE, not EXCEPTION.
Also, the world is NOW too well connected -- via Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums, Cell-phone text/photo/video messages -- for FORMIDABLE police-state action to really be effective.

Scion7777 wrote: "Wake up and snort the coffeegrounds." Scaremongering ... it's what's for breakfast in this individual's apartment.

FilePost does not allow FREE DOWNLOAD. What a point to upload there???????

Just signed up for FilePost ... it's WORKING (for now), and downloading at >1MB/s. Haven't tired uploading.
Alas ... OLD FilePost links (before "The Storm") are useless.
FYI: I paid via PayPal @ $13/month. Saw no way but to auto-renew-subscribe (i.e., can't buy only one month -- or did I miss smthng?).

I don't understand why no more ul.to links.
I got 1,5 MB downspeed right now.

Why was stated ul.to as - "Dead" ?

Avax stated .."cowardly rats deserting the ships"..
Who brought this rats onboard ?
Didn't you remember ?
Avax was one of them and forced the users to feed this rats.
Now presenting a total crap hoster again.
RS is fine all the time with very good up and downstream.

Greed rulez.
Don't be the bi!ches of Avax.
Avax did a nice work with avaxhome but lost it spirit a time ago.
But they are puppetplayers.
There is no difference in their actions and the actions of the media industrial complex.
Greed rulez.

Anyway.
TY to all the uploaders !
Especially to avaxclan and the ebooksharing friends :)

Spend less time with downloading.
Spend more time with fighting back.

Fuck you greed.

Sincerely,

the world

Haai

Dunno what many of you are all jabbering about but if Rundskop can't win the Oscar I hope Obama can.

Baai

Obama is an Oscar so what should he win?
And Rundskop is to real to get an Oscar.
Brilliant movies get no Oscars and real ones neither.

Dear Users! Stop arguing! You should rather support Polish internet revolution against ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).
Here are some examples from major Polish cities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deg4ecoqfMw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VpJ6Zxzy-L0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHedf3kCkwk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYyilIBX3RU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgwsYW6Yk_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiEbwgixRHA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUloya_yqCw&feature=player_embedded
Regards!

good point.
But Poland is only ONE cunt of f+cking US.
A merican C un T A llies.

ok. lets spend some time with Polishing.

greez

www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/anonymous-internationalist

read.
organize.
f*ck em .

alternative go and buy a f*ckpost account , continue whining and feed the rats pussy.

heads up.

V

Posted By: 13mh13 Date: 26 Jan 2012 15:59:20
> FYI: I paid via PayPal @ $13/month. Saw no way but to auto-renew-subscribe (i.e., can't buy only one month -- > or did I miss smthng?).

You can easily unsubscribe via paypal, did that twice, no problems.
And as you said, FilePost is working fine (full speed with multiple downloads).
And even old stuff is still available (okay woodworking tutorials might not be
in the focus of the 'industry'...)

It's a bit scandalous because
1/ Mods are absent and don't answer our requests
2/ I respect the rule --> I upload on F** Filepost with F.. download speed!
3/ But I reup on Rapidshare or Bayfiles 'cause I want to share honestly with members my rips (it's not the case of a lot of money back fans still here ...)
4/ Staff don't reply on PM
5/ What's the future with Avax ... are you preparing your retirement?

Plz don't let us without explanation ...

galmuchet - Bless You! You are (your instincts (make you)) a grand champion.

Reading this thread is probably the only entertaining reason to visit Avaxhome anymore. It's like a train wreck, ugly and messy to look at, but you can't help watching anyway. Human nature, I guess. :0

I paid for premium with filepost but downloads are too slow. Their servers are bad

Posted By: wilson381 Date: 26 Jan 2012 22:25:54
>I paid for premium with filepost but downloads are too slow. Their servers are bad

Where do you live?
Right now I'm downloading from filepost some nice stuff (thanks scutter!) with 600 KB/s,
Thats not superfast but I wouldn't call that slow these days.

Only a sap or (most likely) a shill would say they paid for premium from the worst file server to date. And 600 kb/s ain't fast in the 21st Century...or didn't you know? I downloaded a "free" magazine from crappost, 86mb, and it took 19 (NINETEEN!) minutes to get it - with a 38Mbps connection. Fast??? Gimmie a break, shill.

BTW, ever wonder why avax keeps drifting on & offline? They're going broke from no more kickbacks!!!

For the last two hours Depositfiles has been offline. A new victim? or a new converse?

Очень хотелось бы в обязательных видеть более удобоваримый хост. Бог с ней, с affiliate, но, во-первых, у Файлпоста самый дорогой премиум, во-вторых, такая фича, как удаленный аплоад, там чисто символически присутствует, поддерживается лишь рапида (учитывая объемы, которые нужно перекачать, удобная удаленка - весьма существенный момент, имхо). Ну и скорость просто никакая. Я состарюсь раньше, чем перелью туда свои полтора терабайта.

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Posted By: scutter Date: 24 Jan 2012 03:47:52 filepost.com - dead account message: This account is suspended

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“

Posted By: damok Date: 26 Jan 2012 23:05:51 Right now I'm downloading from filepost some nice stuff (thanks scutter!) with 600 KB/s,

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damok Date: 24 Jan 2012 14:36:24 Some of your good stuff is still there!

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Scam?...

Same as my (first) account, suspended.
And my files, active...

WTF! :)

Over on rlsbb.com there are quite a few Fileserve links that are now working again !!

@avaxclan

> Logopress3 2012 SP0.1 for SolidWorks 2011-2012 32bit & 64bit
> Posted By : scutter | Date : 26 Jan 2012 03:38:16

How can scutter upload his great 3D stuff on Jan 26 when
his account has been suspended on Jan 24?
And the link above is still alive!

Why Scam - some are whining about lame d/l rates others
continue to upload good stuff.

FileServe -- yes, some links are working. Download speed >1MB/s
FileSonic -- still dead.
FilePost -- working, but download speed varies significantly (0.1 - 1MB/s)

Dear AVAX file-sharers and related community posting here ...
'The Storm' can be stressful for many. Wait it out. The hosts are starting to trickle back.
ALSO ... Lots of vultures on the 'other side' (corporate lawyers, corrupt govts., political police (FBI, DoJ, etc.), reading our comments, panning for weaknesses to use against us. So refrain from emotional, immature, vulgar comments. This does not mean you shouldn't criticize hosts, AVAX or file-sharing. Just be a little more sophisticated.

Speaking of which ...

AVAX team ... Can we get rid of the usual, UNSOPHISTICATED home-(splash-)page top image:
http://pix.avaxnews.com/collages/Promo_005_small.jpg
This kind of sensational trash CHEAPENS AVAX and sends the WRONG message to the general public and corporate world -- communities whom we're trying to convince that file-sharers are an intelligent and intellectual and even an elite group of people. Not simpletons whose greatest daily thrill is browsing supermarket tabloid-trash magazines.

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Posted By: damok Date: 27 Jan 2012 09:28:43 How can scutter upload his great 3D stuff on Jan 26 when his account has been suspended on Jan 24? And the link above is still alive!

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New account i guess.

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Why Scam - some are whining about lame d/l rates others continue to upload good stuff.

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No options.

>

I was saying listen to galmuchet because FilePost closed accounts, and because they have servers in the US, not safe IMO.
Let us choose, or put rs or that piratebay service instead (where are their servers?, sweden?).

Cheers dudes :)

I just found several posts that had their files taken offline from FilePost. Is nothing safe? Only RS seems to be rockin' steady...so far :)

Are you listening Avax management???

Everything I have tried to download from FilePost I have received this message: "File not found
It may have been deleted by the uploader or due to the received complaint." This happens even if I catch the post within 15 minutes of it going live. It has been this way ever since they were chosen as the "preferred" host!

Uploading, DepositFiles and RapidShare are working fine as is TurboBit although I prefer not to use TB due to the MASSIVE pop-up ads, long wait and super slow downloads. Other sites such as uploadto, unibytes, etc. are blocked completely. Yes I'm in the US.

Despite the fact that I am disabled and my income is at/below poverty level I have on a few occasions been able to save up to purchase a one month premium membership to the "preferred" Avax host. I thought I was doing the right thing to 'pay back' those that were helping to keep me sane because they provided reading material that I normally didn't have access to and lets face it, you can only re-read a book/magazine so many times. Needless to say, I had just purchased another month at FS when it was taken away. For someone like me this is a devastating blow. You can say I'm whining, and maybe I am but everyone is entitled to their feelings.

I for one will not purchase another premium membership as it takes months of saving my change to get the $$ saved and unless the powers that be (Avax team) can come up with better "preferred host(s)" I won't even bother to click on the FP links anymore. It's a waste of time and bandwidth for me.

>Are you listening Avax management???

Doesn't look like it.

This too shall pass.

The MegaUpload case is a loser, and will not stand up to a trial.

The owners do not post the files, the users do. The MU owners technically do not know what is in the zip files, and remove copyright infringing files when made aware of them. Unless the gov't can prove intent there is no case and this whole thing will blow over.

Chill out, be patient, wait & see.

You can wait it out without going through withdrawals, can't you?

>Are you listening Avax management???

Yeah, they are. They have removed several comments that have criticised them.

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The following is forbidden at AvaxHome: - To be offensive to any user, moderator or administrator.

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Posted By: splatterghost Date: 27 Jan 2012 19:18:16 >Are you listening Avax management??? Yeah, they are. They have removed several comments that have criticised them.

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You may be right splatterghost. One thing is for sure, I have noticed several comments removed that went way beyond "criticizing" and imo were "offensive". There were some comments that were extremely offensive that named certain posters. Those have been removed. I still see comments above that are offensive to admin but yet they weren't removed. It may be the admins have a higher tolerance for being insulted than they do for members being insulted.

There is a difference between criticizing and being offensive. I think naming specific posters and moderators and calling them rats, reptiles and dogs all in one comment crosses the line of decency and deserved to be removed.

I also noticed that one of the posters that was dogged out for being a serial poster in it for the money has posted a couple of albums with rapidshare and filepost links today. Didn't filepost stop paying? RapidShare doesn't pay. He won't get a cent and probably won't get 4 thank you's for his effort but he will get hundreds of downloads.

@firepower - in fairness, it has to be acknowledged that avax itself started the "rats" comments.

There is also an argument to be made that those terms are just *words*, whereas the "specific posters" actually perpetrated some questionable *actions*.

And I don't see which poster you refer to, but the fact also remains that the several others named as profiteers have definitely disappeared since there is no money in it for them.

Any discussion of altruistic intention on the part of management is naive. Individual posters may - probably do - have excellent intentions, but the site itself is 100% opportunistic.

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Posted By: Jar-of-Tears Date: 27 Jan 2012 18:11:53 This too shall pass. The MegaUpload case is a loser, and will not stand up to a trial. The owners do not post the files, the users do. The MU owners technically do not know what is in the zip files, and remove copyright infringing files when made aware of them. Unless the gov't can prove intent there is no case and this whole thing will blow over. Chill out, be patient, wait & see. You can wait it out without going through withdrawals, can't you?

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You're absolutely right Jar-of-Tears

I think the Megaupload case has been a hard blow to the cloud business. I wonder who will trust anymore the cloud-based services that recently sprouted like mushrooms on the web... The cloud here, the cloud there, the cloud is the future, put your files in the cloud and sleep soundly, bla bla bla...

Maybe the F.B.I. peed out of the pot this time ...

firepower

You dont think that filesonic = rats and trash scammer???
If you worked for many years, and then you have scammed this trash rats filesonic - as to think you are? when many link died and lost money - site, poster, people who bought premium?
I said before filepost more stable than filesonic and I glad - that i right...

@splatterghost: Yes, avax started the rats comments and personally, I don't have a problem with a generic "money grubbing serial posters are rats that are only here for the money". It's when someone says, "Joe, Jack, George are reptiles......" that I think it has gone too far. That is my opinion only and I do not speak for anyone else.

I have no doubt that Avax sees this as a business and wants to make money. My internet connection provider is making money, the file hosts are making money and I don't object to others making a buck or two. We all now know how much MegaUpload was making. lol

And I will not name the poster I was referring to because he may not have noticed the comments with his name that were removed and I don't plan to bring it up. :)

You are 100% right about the posters disappearing. I too have disappeared from posting. My links made me filthy rich so I can afford to retire in luxury. Actually, I decided to wait a bit and let things shake out. I was about to buy an Uploading.com account but they went belly up so I'm glad I didn't. My upload is 80k and unreliable. I can't get motivated to upload something expecting that it may be dead soon. For those interested, I have another EXTREMELY rare Asia issued Lobo cd coming when I get geared back up. Thanks to avax member GRMarj again for the next Lobo! :)

@FenixN: Yes. So is RapidShare, MegaUpload, and all the rest. They all do the same thing. One thing about RS is it works better than Filesonic. But.... they charge way more and don't pay anybody so they should have a bazillion dollars for bandwidth and servers. Look at how well MU worked and they were way cheaper than RS. (Yearly account prices, I never compared monthly prices)

@firepower: say what you will, but RapidShare has been the most reliable of the lot, with real longevity. Yes, they made some flaky decisions vis-a-vis "payouts" but they're still in business and going strong -- they saw the "storm" coming and bailed -- thanks, for the most part, to legal hassles. I'm on two invite-only yahoo & google groups that post legit (as far as I can determine) classical concert and opera broadcasts...from lossless to lossy -- and RapidShare is their de facto file host for the past 6 years; these sites host an average of 80 - 90 posts a day and going very strong. It should be noted, RapidShare is not mandated...you'd see an occasional Megaupload here and there....it's the service of international choice. So RS has tons of business beyond the warez scene, especially good old Avax:) They'll be around when the current crop of deadbeats are totally gone.

As for the serial poster(s) who split, good riddance! We know who they are...nobody who didn't have premium accounts to their hosts misses them, with their multi-multi-part uploads. The very few (one? maybe?) who stick around, do so either out of the true spirit of sharing or to build "brand" loyalty once (they hope) the clouds lift and rewards start filtering in again.

On another, complimentary note, I notice your HF files are still very much intact. Classical and Jazz are my cups of tea, but your doo-wop ups have always been a welcome surprise -- my guilty pleasure:) As many physical CDs of the stuff I have (plus a few gigs of d/w downloads), I can never get enough of it. Kudos to you for that!

Peace.

@rainbow 88:
RS has been the most reliable and I had a premium account with them for years before they switched to .com from .de

I let my account expire exactly 1 yr ago and haven't missed it. I shared on other sites on a hit and miss basis. My hotfile links always stayed up but my RS got deleted several times. RS changed their terms of service more often than I changed my underwear. Finally, everyone abandoned them at the sites I visit so I did too. For a while I had FileSonic, FileServe, Hotfile and RapidShare premium accounts. A year ago I dropped RS and this week Sonic and Serve dropped me. lol Neither Sonic nor Serve ever deleted a single file of mine until last weekend. RS deleted several. I can't be mad at Sonic or Serve although I had several months left on those accounts. I never figured my hotfile account would outlast the others but through a strange twist of fate it did.

I see lots of negative comments about the serial posters but I have to admit that those guys have found some tunes that I really wanted but couldn't find for myself so I thank them for that! I have ripped maybe 30 or so cds to post here. I haven't kept count. The rest of my posts are things I dragged up that someone else ripped. Most is stuff I have had on my hard drive for years but some is more recent. Anyway, I consider myself a "semi-serial" poster. So far I haven't seen anybody dog me out by name for being a "money grubbing rat" but I expect it is coming. If I just post my rips I would not post very much and soon would run out of ammo. I don't have the money/cds to post truckloads of my rips from my cds. I have said before that my most popular posts are always ripped by someone else. It seems that my musical taste for buying a cd is somewhat out of the mainstream.

I like that Doo Wop! I mostly listen to 60s stuff but I keep clicking back on the Doo Wop when the wife isn't around. She is not as much of a Doo Wop fan as I am. I'm glad you like it too and you are certainly welcome! And luckily, the HF links are still good. I have upload speed of 80k so I can't reupload all that stuff.

Take care!

Firepower, thank you for being a light of rationality in these times of hatred here. Glad to see someone else rejects the over-gloryfication of RS.

@luckburz: I think you lost something in the translation of his response...read again, slowly:

"RS has been the most reliable and I had a premium account with them for years before they switched to .com from .de"

He didn't like their changing the ground rules in mid-air...as did I...but I didn't read any "rejection" of "over-glorification" of RapidShare. If you don't like it, don't use it and earn pennies with other hosts. But there is no doubt, especially in these days of having that gawd-awful filepost rammed down uploaders throats by the Avax crew, RS is by far the fastest, most reliable hosting site out there. Period.

Got it? Good:)

@luckburz: I've never been called rational before. You must be off your meds! lol

I don't try to be a trendsetter. I just go with the flow. Everybody was using RS so I did too. Everybody stopped so I did too. I have to admit that before I stopped I got tired of their changes. You can download this much, no this much, today it's this much, never mind what we said last week... now it's this much. Their RS uploader/downloader program was constantly updated and never worked well for me. The last "upgrade" is when it started hijacking my computer when I clicked on a file. I had many thousands of points before I found out they could be traded for months of service. Then they switched to "premium" and "basic??" points. Then switched back. Then back again. Then they discontinued points and I lost thousands but they weren't worth anything so it didn't matter. It was just the idea that they would go to such convoluted extremes to jack you around. Lets not forget when they went to "rapids". If you had more than 50GB on their service you had to pay way more than those that just downloaded. They sucked the life out of my "rapids" until they got so many complaints they stopped that but no refund to those of us that got hosed. I paid at least twice as much as downloaders only. I am putting files on their service so they can sell accounts (for which I get nothing) and they want to charge me EXTRA. I don't mind not getting paid but I do object to paying double. Yes, RS is a long term survivor and among the best to download from. They are also among the first to delete your files, first to close your account and first to give your personal info to the police. I'm sure you remember when they turned those guys in without a fight 2 or 3 years ago and the guys were arrested. Right now RS works well for free users but lets not forget the times that you almost couldn't get a file from them for free. I think that if there is a mad rush to buy RS accounts they will revert back to daily limits, charge uploaders extra, become virtually impossible to get a file for free... you get the picture. They haven't changed. Just their terms are decent....THIS WEEK. I'm one of those people that will hold a grudge forever and I have not forgotten or forgave them for they way they screwed me around when they were the 800lb gorilla in filehosting. Now they are down to 400lbs and I don't plan to give them any of my money to fatten their sorry arse up! If everyone else goes to RS then I might do the same but I will be one of the last. I may never share another file on their service. My Jurassic arse is still chapped from the last time!! End rant. btw, tell the truth... you don't still think I'm rational do you?? LOL

@rainbow 88: You seem to visit sites that use RS and I'm guessing that your files stay up. I'd stay with them too if that was the case. The sites I visited all stopped with RS so it was easy for me to quit. Also, they deleted quite a few of my files. Hotfile only deleted one file. Maybe the sites I visit were on their radar while your sites were not.

I say go with what works for you. Everybody has their own preferences and experiences. I respect everyone's opinion up until they start calling people names. I don't mind being told I'm a nut but do it with some semblance of civility. :)

...otherwise I may have to do a drive-by on your house that makes the St. Valentines Day Massacre look like a Sunday School picnic. firepower is more than just a nick. It's a way of life! lol

@rainbow 88: "If you don't like it, don't use it and earn pennies with other hosts."

bla, bla, bla - read this stupid argument ca. 500x in this thread.
Maybe you should think outside of your box - and that is what i mean with "overglorification of RS": There are more good reasons existing for not using RS as you may think of and firepower named some of them:

"My hotfile links always stayed up but my RS got deleted several times. RS changed their terms of service more often than I changed my underwear. Finally, everyone abandoned them at the sites I visit so I did too." & "Neither Sonic nor Serve ever deleted a single file of mine until last weekend. RS deleted several."

Maybe you should read again, slowly? :-)

"RS is by far the fastest, most reliable hosting site out there." - I did not have any problems either with Filesonic, Hotfile or Filepost -> but if you don´t like them, don't use them and cry more tears about the absence of RS.

"RS is by far the fastest, most reliable hosting site out there. Period."

And i bet it will not return in the warez business in the same way they did eralier. Period.

It is not the fault of those greedy rats like me - they do not want US to upload, because they live in FEAR especially of german authorities. Fact. And do not come up with "they are located in Switzerland" - Megaupload was not located in the US - or was, but in the same way RS is in Germany. You may ask yourself WHY they "changed their terms of service more often than I changed my underwear". They had really big trouble at that time, and i bet they do not want it again.

Maybe your niche is safe there. "classical concert and opera broadcasts" are not the primary target of the content mafia. I can see this with my own uploads - nearly no classical up has ever vanished.

So again: Read again, slowly & think outside of your box. Got it? Good:))

Going to bed now. There are so many pennies to earn tomorrow! *rolleyes*

@Firepower: you don't still think I'm rational do you??

I do. What you said matches a lot of the things i would say abou the using of hosters in general. I did also use RS from .de times on, but my governments plans (exists?) of "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" make it totally useless for me fro uploading. Do not want to pay thousands of bucks for giving away music for free. They extradited uploaders in the past and they will again. RS is dead for me. It's fine if anyone else will use it and love it - but for god's sake! Face the fact that it will never be the same. I still don't get the problems... I'm downloading very few, cause ripping and upping of my collection takes a lot of time, but when i want something, i download and i do not give a single F**** about which hoster. If it does not work - so be it.

Yee Haw!! Guys, the last thing I wanted was to start a "shit storm". I think we all agree that RS is fast and stable but has changed their terms of service many times while others did not. Many of the others are now gone and RS is still here. Also, it seems to depend on what type of music you are interested in as to what your experience is with RS and deleted links/canceled accounts. For me RS isn't the best choice but it may be for others. Peace my friends! We are all in the same boat! ... and as pictured above, the seas are rough!

@luckburz: It takes me about 5 hours to rip an album. CDs are quick but by the time you scan/align/crop/convert and so on, even a cd rip takes me 2 hours at least, not counting upload time or the time it takes to create the publication page. I don't know how some of these guys do it. I can't keep up. I have been on break this week. I should have ripped a few while I'm waiting for calmer seas but I haven't. I did scan a 45 of Lobo's. The B side has a track on it that has never been on any album or cd that I know of. It's a "curiosity" thing that will appeal to a couple of Lobo fans and that's about it. lol I may rip it later tonight. Yes sir, I know how much time my cheezy vinyl rips take so I have an idea of how much time you spend on yours. It's not like it was back in the 70s when I transferred vinyl to 7" reels.

I used RS all along, even after they quit doing pay outs, and the downloaders here have always thanked me for it.

@splatterghost
@firepower

I am one of those who was posting on avaxhome and stop posting only because filepost, I will never again upload on that joke of host site but that doesn't mean I am one of those members who are interested in money only. Filepost is to slow and I have problems with uploading files. To upload files on several hosts means you have to buy premium on one host and remote upload files to another if supported, or use regular upload on every host you want to use which can be slow if you have low upload speed. Rule on avaxhome is simple, use filepost. So, if I want to use remote upload I must buy premium to use that feature which will save me time. That will never happen because I had premiums on Filepost, Fileserve, Filesonic and Uploading and they delete all of them, only retards will buy premiums from those sites again. Also, if I don't post my links here anymore it doesn't mean I don't post and upload anymore at all, many of us left avaxhome and post links on other places where rule is simple, SHARE OR DON'T, no ridiculous rules about which file host MUST be included.
Every place have own rules, only question is do you comply with them or not. As long this rule is priority on avaxhome, many people will come here only as visitors, not to mention they will not buy premium or click on Filepost links.
Of course, there is also profiteers who are missing but, they should on my opinion.

@firepower:

You did not start a "shit storm" - it is raging for days now ;-)) And neither did i want to. I'm just of the opinion that you belong to the rare people (here in this thread) that overlook the hoster situation rational & emotionless, as you have to in these times. Maybe we (as i said: i do see things the same way) are opportunistic, but the choice of a hoster is no religion - as some may think. As Plato said:

τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν”
Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden
"All entities move and nothing remains still"

Abou the time: As you said. Vinyl rips take me around 4-6 hours depending on the size of the artwork - you know gatefolds are hard to scan :-). CD rips take ca. 30 minutes plain music extraction, depending on the size of the booklet 1-2 hours of scanning and cutting. 30 minutes getting all the information together, hours to upload... My up speed is 95kbps, it takes long, very long. Because of that work and time spend on this hobby of mine, i usually get very pissed off of the leechers with their take away mentality and morally preaching about the meaning of sharing. I do this for over ten years now, and i do guess that i know what i'm doing. And btw: i would earn a lot more if i would cut lawns or wash cars... ;-)

@lococapriccio:

"SHARE OR DON'T, no ridiculous rules about which file host MUST be included.
Every place have own rules, only question is do you comply with them or not. As long this rule is priority on avaxhome, many people will come here only as visitors, not to mention they will not buy premium or click on Filepost links.
Of course, there is also profiteers who are missing but, they should on my opinion. "

I can second that.

It is really simple: Don't post here anything and then they can close this site really fast!
When you do that, what do you think, how much time it will take, they change the rules?

Well, amidst this *firestorm* I'm seeing post after post being taken down on FilePost, if anyone's noticing. In software, music, everywhere lately.

I finally managed to grab one of the 7 files from album downloaded (after a speedy 34Kbps *grin*) and when I started on the second one this morning, surprise...the CD was gone from FP as well as AvaxHome! Same with another post I wanted as well as some software (not to be named). I've been on AvaxHome for years and haven't seen this level of take-downs with other servers in the past.

So while firepower, luckburts and others shuffle their deck chairs on the Titanic, squabbling about which sites are better, worse, too expensive, etc. the walls are caving in. Who in his right mind would upload to FB wondering if/when his or her files will disappear? Let alone who would take out a Premium membership anywhere these days?

Not good.

Tip for luckburtz:

When I rip vinyl and put together LP album covers, I don't scan. I set them up on a convenient table, put my digital camera on a still and steady surface (no flash, just high speed ISO) and shoot it. Great results and easy to work with in Photoshop.

Please ...any update on warfront...where do we go...please AVAX lead us.

Pluckerman,

i did it that way before i started to scan. Scanning brings in my eyes the best results, but takes it time. After scanning you can stitch the parts (quite) perfectly with software like autopano and it looks very good.
About filepost links vanishing: are that new links you are talking about? I read a lot about deleting of accounts by filepost - like hotfile did some time ago. Maybe that is the reason why. My own filepost links work very well f.e. and not even one file has been deleted [except expired ones].

"the walls are caving in" -> i guess nothing like this will happen. Let's resume what exactly happened: One single filehoster was closed by the authorities - and everyone must say, that this was to be expected some day. Everything else was simply panic. The old, stable & somewhat "safe" hosters still exist. Namely RS, UL, HF, FF.

But things will getting worse if ACTA will be ratified. For all that never heard about ACTA (i guess there will be some):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

@Pluckerman: It is annoying to get part of something but be unable to complete it. I think we have all been there at some point in time.

I got a 3 part file yesterday from filepost as a free user at around 100k. All the hosts are having issues this week I think.

btw, I am not part of the crew that shuffles the chairs on the Titanic. That is a union job and I belong to "sit in the chair" union. We only sit and squabble. We do not shuffle and squabble.

@luckburz: I've been using "scan-n-stitch". Sometimes it works well and sometimes it is won't work at all. It seems to do better on pics than on text only. I'll have to give autopano a try. I see a couple in the software section that are new and have them downloading now. Wish me luck!

edit: I got it downloaded (easy part) and I actually have it up and running! I can rarely get software to work because I'm terrible with computers. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the program. Thanks again luckburz for the tip. :)

Firepower, great to see that this possibly will help you :-) As far as i remember Autopano was quite easy to use. If you have problems feel free to contact me. Cheers and join me on for a drink on the deck of the Titanic! If i will ever buy a boat (from the filesharing pennies) i will call it "Unsinkable II"...

@luckburz: I agree with you on ACTA (see my earlier post). Please inform your friends and colleagues about the protest against ACTA in my country - you can support us by spreading information about our demonstrations.