Slashdot Mirror

Meanwhile much of the filesharing community has moved on to new models. The latest? Upload your files to http://rapidshare.de/ or http://www.megaupload.com/ or http://www.sendspace.com/ or http://www.uploading.com/ or http://www.mytempdir.com/ or http://hyperupload.com/ or http://www.savefile.com/ or http://www.turboupload.com/. How do people find files there? Mostly through Russian sites, since they still have a pretty loose view of intellectual property law enforcement there. Sites like http://www.inethouse.net/ and http://www.avaxhome.ru/ and http://www.blueportal.org/ and http://netz.ru/. At least one site is Spanish http://www.mocosoft.com/principal.htm (warning: adult content advertising) and there is even a music site on Blogspot with ALL the latest albums--http://regnyouth.blogspot.com/--run by a guy from Pennsylvania; I don't quite understand why the RIAA has not put out a hit on this guy yet. There's also an exhaustive listing of all the stuff on Rapidshare at http://rapidshared.org/; I love their disclaimer which says "rapidshare.de does not tolerate any illegal or copyrighted materials - so this site cannot include any as well." Yeah, right.

On top of that, serious filesharers don't use Kazaa anyway; they all use Limewire instead.