Sci/Tech Filesonic Kills File-Sharing Service After MegaUpload Arrests

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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.

Filesonic Kills File-Sharing Service After MegaUpload Arrests * TorrentFreak

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...
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Kind of retarded. Filesonic is too scared that they will be sued is all. It's a pure lie to say that file sharing is a thing of the past. It's a thing of the future hence the Cloud type storages going on right now which is huge money.

Anyways I don't see a reason Filesonic should stop it's business like this it just doesn't seem right. Megaupload should still be in business as well, but megaupload definitely has a sketchier background and some sketchy underlings going on from what i've read-- like a fake primary share holder who made a youtube video and how it was started by an hacker.
 
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What I think? They're over-reacting. Bullshit.
I had loads of files there, bastards. I'm just gonna switch.
 
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I'm currently considering taking down a few Minecraft worlds from Mediafire. Looks like that site may follow along Filesonic, considering that Mediafire is also set up near Filesonic.

If this keeps up, the only place where cloud uploading is available would be Apple's iCloud and Gmail.
 
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WHAT!?
MY MEDIAFIRE IS GONE!?
*Runs off*

Ouh, my account's still there, phew.
 
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Anonyupload is a scam. Anonymous confirmed via their Twitter.

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Also the website isn't even functional. There are loads of tabs that are meant to be links yet there is only one that works; FAQ.
 
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Some file-sharing sites drop the sharing.

Caution is spreading among popular file-sharing services known for letting users circulate pirated Hollywood content.

FileSonic, FileServe and Uploaded.to have abruptly cut off the sharing of movies, games and other software just days after the Justice Department closed down Megaupload, the largest such site.

"It looks like the chilling effect has already started," says Dennis Fisher, editor in chief of security blog Threatpost. "Maybe one of the reasons the U.S. government is going after companies alleged to be hosting infringing content is to serve as a deterrent for others engaging in similar activity."

FBI and Department of Justice officials do not discuss ongoing investigations.

File-sharing services, also referred to as cyberlockers, enable users to easily upload, store and share large files on a server in the Internet cloud. This includes movies, music, gaming applications, software tools, multimedia presentations and the like.

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It's a pretty clever tactic, actually! Hit a big site and scare the others.

Hmm, but don't you think "file sharing" will come back one day? like it always does?
 
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I guess it will just move from the well known servers to the darker areas of the internet.
 
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