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File Sharing In the Post MegaUpload Era
An anonymous reader writes "This report looks at file sharing in the post MegaUpload era. The main finding — file sharing did not go away. It did not even decrease much in North America. Mainly, file sharing became staggeringly less efficient. Instead of terabytes of North America MegaUpload traffic going to U.S. servers, most file sharing traffic now comes from Europe over far more expensive transatlantic links."
I now accept requests for files over the phone or via hand-written letter and I deliver them on a USB stick, multiple foppy disks, or cassette tapes, whatever you prefer.
My file sharing will not be stopped
Hey, let's go back to the way it was in the 90's
Yeah, piracy didn't exist in the 90s. Do we get the don't copy that floppy guy back too?
I'd agree with you, but in the eons that have passed in this, the post-TaoPhoenix's-post era, it's become entirely irrelevant. Just like the first half of my post, in this post-Captain-Spam's-first-half-of-his-post era.
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
http://www.27bslash6.com/foggot.html
Didn't Zune have a feature that did bluetooth or WiFi song sharing called 'squirt' (or 'squirting')?
It was squircle. Squirting is something different, but don't worry, we nerds probably will never stumble into that situation...
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Are sites containing strictly Magnet URIs, which I assume provide no resources for locating the tracker nor "piers" that would provide file, illegal or legal in the US?
To stop people from smirking you should refer to "peers" rather than "piers". Although the nautical image it conjures up is entertaining.
Squirting is something different, but don't worry, we nerds probably will never stumble into that situation...
Why? You know, porn is shareable too!
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