Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload

Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by Zirro on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:35AM (#3489379)

If they don't happen to have some condition which makes them hard to use for your situation, I would recommend http://www.mediafire.com. I've not used them as an uploader myself, but to me they seem to have the cleanest, most modern interface and no annoying timers for downloading and so on. That should be encouraged.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by mootothemax on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:48AM (#3489415)

I would recommend http://www.mediafire.com

Isn't that replacing one dubious service with another though? Right now, I'd imagine that something akin to Amazon S3 is the only reliable solution, and even then I bet they have their fair share of infringing material stored.

It's quite the rabbit hole the FBI have gone down with this action.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by Zirro on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:59AM (#3489457)

They don't have the shady history that Megaupload did, and appear to actually comply with DMCA-requests. That will hopefully keep them safe for a while. If it doesn't, hosting files for "everyone" is a doomed business.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by cdr on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:57AM (#3489629)

Megaupload complied extremely quickly with DCMA requests by all reports. The non-compliance cited in the indictment appears to be somewhat of a technicality - at worst, only removing links instead of the file. Are you sure Mediafire complies more zealously than Megaupload did?

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by kevinh on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:54PM (#3490671)

I don't understand why you view removing the links and not the content as a technicality and not the crux of the issue. If you're ordered to remove content from your servers and do not do so, it's unsurprising that you aren't really complying with the DMCA.

Removing links isn't the same as removing content.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by dangrossman on Friday January 20, 2012 @04:40PM (#3491340)

Re-reading the DMCA yesterday was the first time I realized that it actually does require a service like Dropbox to remove every user's copy of a file upon receiving a notice of infringement even if only one of those copies is not allowed and the rest are entirely legal.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by matale on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:19AM (#3489711)

Mediafire also don't give incentives for people to put popular files on their system as far as I can tell.

With most services like MegaUpload/Rapidshare you get paid when people download your files, hence their popularity, its a business for a lot of uploaders.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by vog on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:59AM (#3489456)

While I agree that you should encourage proper business, I don't think that Mediafire is a good solution for the mentioned purpose. They take $9/month for 4 GB storage, and $49/month for 10 GB storage. That's really expensive!

For $10/month you can easily get a VServer with 20 GB disk space or more. For $50/month you can rent a Dedicated Server with 2000 GB hard disks. (... assuming that someone who works with embedded linux images has no problem with installing a tiny webserver and making regular security upgrades)

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by noonespecial on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:04AM (#3489466)

I do have my own $50 Dedicated server that serves the web portion but if I have to serve the large files as well, I overrun my bandwidth allocation. File-locker services seemed like an easy solution.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by X-Istence on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:16PM (#3490471)

Where can you rent a $50 a month dedicated server with 2 TB disks? In the United States preferably.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by vog on Friday January 20, 2012 @07:25PM (#3492004)

I don't know (and also don't really care) about US, but here in Germany there are several good providers. "Hetzner" and "1and1" come to mind.

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