As anyone who frequents any music sharing blog already knows, downloading music from the internet is pretty much dead for the time being. 4 days ago, everything was fine, today Megaupload, Fileserve, Filesonic, FileJungle, Uploaded, Filepost, 4shared, and several others are gone, at least for those of us in the US.
Right now Rapidshare looks to be one of the only sites left that Americans can upload to and download from. But they lost a lot of people when they switched over to that "Rapids" system or whatever they called it. I'm not sure, actually, I was one of the people who lost Rapidshare when they changed. I'll probably end up back with Rapidshare, but for the next few weeks I'm just going to lay low and hope this whole thing blows over and some of the shut down sites make a comeback, or some new guys show up*. Oh, and I'm also going to hope ACTA doesn't happen.
*I know it's a bit dumb for me to say "lay low for the next few weeks" considering my last post was over a month ago, but I thought I should at least briefly talk about this whole thing.
6 comments:
Yeah I just heard the news, so depressing.
Just wanted to say that I think your approach is the best policy rather than just give up or go private as many music based blogs have done or are thinking of doing.
On the scale of things, living in Europe makes things slightly better for me as I can still access 4Shared and Mediafire and no files have been deleted yet though the stuff I have is pretty obscure on the scale of things.
I really feel for all the bloggers out there who have been the victims of this outrageous outbreak of the fascist mind though the irony is, it will in the long term make things more robust through multi-option download methods for the same rip or through private blogs or trackers and/or new methods that make the current impact of this global culling a one-off, Never Again!
Its the long term blogs that have hundreds and sometimes thousands of posts and have files deleted, lost or simply used places like FS, MU etc as cloud storage places though I guess theoretically, all the files are on peoples hard-drives scattered around the world so technically nothing is "lost" so maybe a more audience "participation" will emerge...who knows!
While, sorry for your loss doesn't seem quite right, I applaud your eyes on the future approach...phew!
I must agree with The Saucer People in that this government-sponsored Facism sucks in the here and now.
But longterm, all of us on the World Wide Web (not the United States Web) will be stronger for this experience.
Remember these words of wisdom:
"That which does not kill us only makes us Bitter!"
Thanks, Manchester Morgue, for teaching me that Facts of Life.
W/o the Manchester Morgue, I would never have known the joys of Harry Knuckles and Pearl Necklaces!
And who knew that Ultraman was into jazz? Not me, that's fer sher!
The Blogosphere won't be the same w/o you, so I hope you come back soon :)
Phelpster,
I posted something similar on my soundtrack blog too, just to much heat at the moment, and "lay low" is the best move for now. I do want to thank you for your years of blogging. Your blog was THE blog that I saw where I found out there is a soundtrack collector/lover audience and gave me the idea to start my own and be a part of the soundtrack blogging community. Now just a little over 5 ys later, I too must say goodbye from the sharing music scene for a bit.
Sendspace.com , Mediafire.com and Zshare (as of FEB 2,2012 are all still up and running !!
Could you re-up Teenage Rebellion soundtrack?
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