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Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files

Posted by samzenpus on from the closing-shop dept.

Ihmhi writes "In the wake of the Megaupload takedown, Filesonic has elected to take preventative measures against a similar fate. The front page and all files now carry the following message: 'All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.' Whether or not this will actually deter the U.S. government from taking action remains to be seen."

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  1. Correction for the title. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Filesonic becomes useless.

    1. Re:Correction for the title. by Kenja · · Score: 5, Insightful

      More or less. Just canceled my account. Whole point was to be able to send people files too large for email.

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    2. Re:Correction for the title. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Maybe is the best solution, remove USA from Internet.

  2. Thigs swinging back to Bittorrent and P2P? by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The sharing scene for the music I listen to mainly transitioned from P2P networks or Bittorrent sites to indexes of Megaupload/Rapidshare/whatever uploads. The advantages cited were the inability to track IPs and more dependability since one didn't have to wait around for seeders. These recent developments might be enough to send people back to Bittorrent, especially as legal challenges have not sufficed to bring down The Pirate Bay, let alone some of the (IMHO more useful) lesser known torrent communities.

    If things go back to Bittorrent, remember that the community depends to a degree on you, so please seed.

    1. Re:Thigs swinging back to Bittorrent and P2P? by Brett+Buck · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's not a slashdot opinion - it's the idea that you can take something from someone else who spent some money producing it for sale, and instead get it for free. And then claiming it's somehow your right, or somehow noble to do it.

    2. Re:Thigs swinging back to Bittorrent and P2P? by SchMoops · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's no less arbitrary that those of us who create content (and I'm one of them) claim it's somehow our right to profit from it.

      Take a look at this blog post by Jonathan Coulton. I can't think of any way I could agree more:
      http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

    3. Re:Thigs swinging back to Bittorrent and P2P? by muuh-gnu · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > Breaking the law simply because

      For a law to be fair and just, it has to be accepted by a significant share of the population, i.e. it has to be democratically supported. When laws are simply forced from the top down by a few stake holders and then massively enforced against the population like in pre-democratic feudal middle ages, breaking a unjust law you can not democratically change is a fucking rebellion. A law does not automatically gain legitimacy just by being a "law", otherwise nobody would ever rebelled against feudalism. Feudalism also had "laws". Libya also had "laws" and you know how it ended. A law just being called a law means nothing.

      A law gains legitimacy by the process how it is passed. It gains legitimacy by whether it is widely accepted as law. This crazy IP shit is neither. It was decided behind closed doors, by a few greedy sick fucks, and is then applied to millions with the sole intent to extract money from them and everybody knows this. Copyright in its todays form is as undemocratic and illegitimate as a law can get.

      > help those of us who care about civil liberties fight against draconian laws

      Come on, you fucking dont do anything. You dont attempt anything, you never ever accomplished anything. You know that you have no chance in hell to change this, so whats your plan? How are you gonna get big money out of and democracy into copyright legislation? How exactly do you "fight"?

      > join us in our attempts to make copyright laws marginally sane

      All you seemingly do is going around telling people not to break "the law", so basically youre part of the problem. You sound like big content, "dont break it, its the law, breaking it will make things worse for you". How is simply bowing down, obeying and not breaking an exploitive, undemocratic and unjust law going to automatically make the law more sane?

  3. Re:Obvious by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this type of service was only meant for personal backups and not illegal file sharing, this would have been the standard in the first place.

    This is nonsense. "Personal backups" are by no means the only legitimate use of services such as this. As a freelance developer, I've had several clients use services like this to send me files. Is your imagination really so limited that you can't think of a single reason why you might want to share a file you have the rights to with another person?

    File sharing is not intrinsically illegal. File sharing is fundamental to the Internet. Right now, Slashdot is sharing many, many files with people accessing it, including you. Are you a criminal? Copyright infringement is a particular type of file sharing. The two concepts are not synonymous, they are quite distinct.

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