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FileFront Shutting Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the rush-the-video-bank dept.

Axodious writes "As of March 30th, FileFront, one of the most popular repositories for sharing online gaming videos, will be suspended due to the recent economic downfall. In a brief post, FileFront's management said, 'We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended.' With FileFront shutting down, what will be next? Fileplanet?"

6 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. One Word: Bailout by Anenome · · Score: 4, Informative

    Clearly Filefront is too big to fail, let's talk bailout. I can have Obama on the phone in 15 minutes flat, how's 2... no, $10 billion sound?

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  2. Yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Good riddance, always despised that site.

    1. Re:Yay by ch1lly · · Score: 2, Informative

      You are thinking of Fileplanet. I'm sad to see this site go because at least for me the downloads were fast and very minor to no waits with no hassle, unlike the aforementioned.

    2. Re:Yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Blizzard's BT client does have an option to disable the p2p function and directly download the patch from their servers. This is generally significantly faster than using the p2p option anyway.

    3. Re:Yay by spyrochaete · · Score: 2, Informative

      Fair point. My sources are reliable (megagames.com and gamecopyworld.com) but I suppose I take for granted however difficult it may be to learn about sites like these for the first time.

  3. Re:Solution: Bittorrent. by Tukz · · Score: 1, Informative

    Torrent trackers don't actually contain any files.

    Your suggestion would require someone to actually seed the files to a torrent tracker.

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