Michal Ždanský Servers such as RapidShare or the Czech Uloz.to are already an integral part of the Internet world. But since MegaUpload was cut, it looks like the Internet as we know it will end even without SOPA and PIPA.
The MegaUpload affair is only a week old and its effect is already spreading across the Internet. The popular data sharing site was tracked down by the US government, working with Interpol to arrest the founders and other collaborators and charge them with copyright infringement. The damage was estimated at half a billion US dollars. At the same time, the shareholders in the company made a lot of money, MegaUpload generated over 175 million dollars in subscriptions and advertising.
The action was taken under a law known as the DCMA. In short, this is the obligation of the service operator to download any objectionable content if it is reported. The bills SOPA and PIPA, which have already been swept off the table for the time being, were supposed to deepen the legal power of the US government over the Internet, but as the current case has shown, the current laws are quite enough to combat copyright infringement. But that's another story.
One rather unpleasant precedent arose from the case - de facto any file sharing service can suffer a similar fate as the (infamous) MegaUpload. It was one of the biggest and at the same time the most controversial. Other smaller operators are starting to get scared, and clouds are gathering over file sharing on the Internet.
On Monday, service subscribers were unpleasantly surprised FileServe. Many of them were told that their accounts had been suspended as a result of violating the terms and conditions. At the same time, FileServe also canceled its rewards program, where users could earn by having their files downloaded by someone else. However, FileServe is not the only one that has reduced or completely discontinued its services.
Another popular server FileSonic announced on Monday morning that it has completely blocked everything related to file sharing. Users can only download data that they have uploaded to their account. It cut off millions of users who paid to download files, all because of a possible threat that hit MegaUpload. Other servers are also massively canceling rewards for uploaders, and everything that even slightly smells like warez is disappearing at a fast pace. In addition, access to American IP addresses was completely prohibited for some servers.
Czech servers do not have to worry yet. Although it also applies to them that they must delete objectionable content, the legislation is set more liberally than in the USA. While sharing copyrighted works is illegal, downloading them for personal use is not. The "downloaders" are not yet threatened with any punishment, only if they share the data further, which can happen very easily, for example in the case of bittorrents.
A well-known group also responded to the situation surrounding MegaUpload Anonymous, which DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks began to block the websites of the American judiciary and music publishers, and it can be expected that their "fight for a free Internet" will continue. However, starting in 2012, the Internet will not be as we know it. At the very least, he won't be as free anymore, even without the passage of SOPA and PIPA.
Go Anonymous... Otherwise it's not FireServe but FileServe (the first mention of this server in the article)
Why is applecarer writing about this? Have you upgraded to a current magazine about technology and the Internet?
This is exactly the reason why I am in Reeder, click on this post. I somehow did not understand why you mention this here :)
Respectively, yes, I'm not sure why you mention it, but somehow I'm looking in vain for something that hasn't been published on the Czech internet in the last few days...
This topic affects us all somehow, that's why we write about it
FileSonic has put everything on hold due to an FBI investigation into them, rather due to a possible threat…
How exactly will the internet become less free? Will someone limit what messages I can read? Or who can I be friends with on FB? Or what can I write on Twitter? No, it just removes the number of download files for which the author did not allow it. This has nothing to do with internet freedom.
And I agree with Myth - as for your subjective opinion, please state it in the article.
So is it just good or not? Downloading to the iPad from these servers is still not easy.
for Apple
And why does Jablíčkář write about it? Nota bene, if the text just repeats what all general computer websites wrote a long time ago, without even bringing a new perspective or information?
Do you even read the discussion above? :) What you just wrote was already written above.. your contribution is about as useful as the article above...
I think that it can quite easily start to concern all of us and the website about Apple. And I really don't like what's going on. This means that when someone wants to shut down a competitor's website, they will - if I exaggerate - upload an episode of The Simpsons and then scold them for sharing illegal content. And lo and behold, the competition is removed :-(
it's all over again the embarrassing crutch of the OSA and similar alliances in the USA. When they are so incompetent that they cannot catch a thief, they shut down everyone who steals by their legal act, just by the way, they made it possible :( thief, what did he steal that backpack. Amici are on their heads.
I don't see, that's what such a service is for. Once upon a time there was a storage room. A service of this type makes sense. Exchange with someone a larger volume of data that does not go through email. Then it makes sense to save me, you need dropbox.
But what is the service for, where can I put something I created (not stolen) and someone will download it in bulk? Show me someone who uses it like this…
Very nicely written. I'll just add that classic and real servers for sharing content are not at risk at all. By that I mean, for example, Dropbox.
Other servers like Megaupload and Uloz.to are simply warez servers, let everyone say what they want.
On the other hand, I can think of a lot of unprofitable projects where someone needs to make a large volume of data, presentations, maps, pictures, videos, instructions, etc. available to a group of people at once.
I have to react too, I can't. Yes, what would we say, the servers of this tip are mainly on the partition of Warez and the Forbidden Fruit file... The question is, why did they have to be created? Osa and other co. I complain that because of these servers and piracy in general, the prices of published titles must therefore be so high to cover all costs. Dude, no one is going to mess around……. But on the other hand……if I go to the cinema 250,- CZK average price, if I like the movie DVD 499,- or BR 599,- and from 799,- start? While watching the movie 3 times a year, I won't be able to watch it in 10 years? Don't you drive? Although the average salary is 23000,-, but in reality it is 14000,- and who in today's world can afford to pay only about 1000,- for a film that he likes, and if they had at least some added value on those "domestic media" example. Lord of the Rings…. Cinema 250,- (worldwide sales per week of screenings earned for production) and also a DVD release for 499,- for two years extended edition 799,- then BR.... Yes, capitalism sucks where you can, but as I said, you can't be surprised…….. You can bet that you won't steal a roll either...... Yes, but it's more affordable... From my point of view, if they would quickly make everything cheaper, DVD 100,- BR 150,- + added value (bonuses, booklets, etc.) sales would increase, just look at magazines with DVDs until there were such defects, sales increased. And this is how it could be done in all industries. The singer sings a record and whether it's good and sells or not, he should give a concert if it's not going well, but let's start paying them. The baker bakes a roll and we don't pay him for 40 years either. I don't support theft, but personally I think that they can do it themselves for downloaders in such a scale. Otherwise, there are and will be thieves, not even OSA A spol. Don't change. The black market on the streets is about to start. End :)
Mole: The Audi Q7 is also financially unaffordable, but are you going to steal it? You won't go. The development of SW, film and other content really costs a fortune. The problem is in society. It would be richly enough if everyone threw out a TV from the barrack once a year with the fact that there is no warez, no content, there is no general awareness of the fact that a movie actually exists... the fact that 1000 people download the film only takes two who go to the cinema... here it is we simply don't have 1000 kc per family for the cinema and we don't want to. 800 for a DVD, how many of today's movies do you want to see twice? renting a film online is already more promising and this is the way, they wanted it themselves...the producer has a few crowns from the rental fee, so it's theirs :-) I'll figure out that they shared it themselves.
As Steve Jobs said, people steal "music, movies, software" just because there is no good and easy alternative and iTunes, AppStore, Mac AppStore succeeded and suddenly it became so easy and cheap to buy music, movies, apps and everything that there is no need to steal anything, which is often harder and more complicated, that it's simply not worth it and you'd rather sacrifice the few crowns/USD, I've never bought software since I got an iPhone and later a Mac, I don't steal software anymore because there is a cheap and simple one an alternative that saves me time and effort. That's exactly what it's about, and Jobs had an incredible talent for making it all happen.
Yes exactly. but unfortunately in our region and not only here, I don't want to be offended, I meet opinions "well, for the money, I would expect more from the application..." the price of the application is $0.99 :-) apple really showed the way in this direction.
Finally a reasonable opinion, I fully agree and I have the same experience. Thank you
I can already see the servers in China, Vietnam, Malaysia within a year :) the FBI can use them... and people from the USA can't get there? tribute to advanced capitalism :)
It's not about sharing, warez, legality or illegality, it's about internet freedom. This is just the beginning, and it's just a curtain behind which something else is going on. Someone wants to have total control over the internet, enough with the fact that mobile phone calls are already being eavesdropped worldwide, as well as e-mails, information about everything and everyone is being collected somewhere. there was a suspicious word in his email.
If it doesn't stop in time, then it won't work. Totality was not the prerogative of the Komačs, that is why they used to be what they are today, complete teacups. The worst thing is when totalitarianism hides behind democracy, then even an educated person goes completely crazy..
..well, OSA lies in my stomach enough. A bunch of STBk (Janda Petr-Olympic, L. Andršt, etc.) wrote the law, then had it amended about 2 times and approved by the lower house 3 times in total. Unprecedented profits for a civic association..revenues seem to exceed expenses. I buy CDs and vinyls with music quite often - passion plus collection, but I bought a lot of music only after I downloaded it, listened to it and had to buy it. About 10 CDs will arrive tomorrow. I think that a person should be given this choice.
Exactly. I'm a fan of Anonymous in this one. That will fire OSA, even from the village band they pay, without getting them on their heads. But what is worse is the signing of ACTA. Pry allows, purely in theory, to check the contents of a book or iPhone for illegal content, i.e. some zero will steal your privacy in your foreign notebook. photos of your girlfriend and ask you where you got the mp3s from? That's a flight.