Filesonic, Fileserve and others are dead, update 1/24 MediaFire CEO speaks

I wonder if the industry thinks this will make a difference. They think that artists will go back to going platinum?? Most of the stuff out there is junk specially when it comes to music.
 
Idc about porn an I support music I like.....

How does this effect mixtapes though?
 
The artist doesn't care about illegal downloading. They've adjusted to the time and use it as a tool to make their money the only way they can...with SHOWS.

The argument of the artist not getting paid because of piracy is outdated.

Same with movies. Remakes of remakes of remakes? Most people I know buy off the street and if not, wait for it to hit the on demand feature through their cable provider.
 
Get it in while you can gents. Mediafire has always been my favorite but I feel they may be on their last legs...
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smh, from some of the sites i check
[h1]Mediafire Deleted All Our Uploaded Files[/h1] 23 Jan
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And just like that, 98% of the downloadable content on our site has vanished.






EDIT: Due to some issues, MediaFire had to delete all files. The new publish tracks will either be hulkshare or zippyshare.
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The industry thinks by crushing us they can force us to buy their terrible overpriced overdone tripe .I fear the day the boys and Beaverton finally get to Take niketalk from us.
 
looks like it really is back to mIRC, or AOL chatrooms with people uploading files to servers
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that was the cool thing to do back in the day
 
Videobb and videozer nooooooo! 

I couldn't finish season 2 of Boardwalk Empire. 

Why me god?!!!!!!!
 
AdobeCS4 wrote:
chokeonsmoke wrote:
What does this mean for sites like livemixtapes.com?

It means nothing. Those are free mixtapes uploaded with the permission of the artist.



Not all of them. Various Artists tapes. Word to DJ Drama, Cannon and Big Mike going to jail


REDUCE523 wrote:
I wonder if the industry thinks this will make a difference. They think that artists will go back to going platinum?? Most of the stuff out there is junk specially when it comes to music.

Yea

Album sales last year went up by a couple percent because they were aggressive in taking down pirated links now they're being proactive and just killing off the file sharing sites

So yea people will probably go back to buying music they want
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What's the deal with torrents though...

They can't really fool with them cuz its so many people sharing at once, right?
 
Napster all over again....................


Elderly career politicians who know nothing about the net do not scare me.............




Ticked off Chinese/Swedish/Norweigian guys who actually WRITE code and have their cash flow disrupted on the other hand.................
 
Only reason i'm pissed is because it affects ROM uploads from Devs at XDA. As long as I have torrents im good
 
[h1]The Filesharing Apocalypse is Coming, & It’s Taking Hip-Hop Down With It[/h1] Posted by Nathan S. on 01/24/12 | Filed under Features
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I know, I know. You'd rather look at pictures of faceless booty models and talk $+%@ about Nicki Minaj than read about legislation and nerdy computer stuff, but whether you're an artist or a fan, if you care about download music on the interwebs (hint, if you're reading this you do) you really should be prepared for the impending file sharing apocalypse.

As the entire world now knows, MegaUpload, a file sharing site that accounted for a staggering 4% of all internet traffic, was shut down by the Feds last week and its balls crazy owner was arrested. (Swizz Beatz' fate remains a mystery.) While the aforementioned balls crazy owner of MegaUpload certainly didn't do himself any favors in the not-getting-arrested department - the Feds tend to notice when you legally change your name to DotCom and amass a multi-million dollar art collection - MegaUpload's fate almost inevitably awaits nearly every file sharing site, from MediaFire to Hulkshare and everyone in between. In fact, a number have already voluntarily shut down to save themselves the trouble of going to jail.

Before we go any further, we do have to cover the boring legal $+%@. Don't worry, I'll do it in the simplest (overly-simplified) way possible.

While the general public may not know what the DMCA is, it's the single most important law on the books to the music interwebs community. Long story short, if you're a site and link to copyrighted material, you have a limited amount of time to remove that material or face charges. DMCA removal requests are often ridiculous, but it's just not worth the trouble of fighting them, so most sites just comply immediately.

(Note: This is obviously related to, but separate from, the now defunct SOPA. SOPA would have essentially extended the DMCA's powers to a frightening degree. Big day for acronyms on RefinedHype.)

The owners of file-sharing sites (aka sites where users can upload material directly) like YouTube have some protections under the DMCA. Even the almighty YouTube, for example, can't possibly check every single video before it's uploaded to see if it's illegal, so the law only requires that they don't encourage illegal uploads, don't even passively condone illegal uploads, and respond to DMCA removal requests in a reasonable amount of time.

That encourage/condone clause is ultimately what brought down Napster, MegaUpload, etc. and what's threatening sites like Grooveshark. In each case emails were allegedly discovered that appeared to indicate that the owners of those sites knew illegal material was being uploaded to their sites but were purposefully not attempting to stop those uploads.

The major music labels, and more powerfully television and movie studios, would be better served putting their time and money into developing ways to get their content to users legally, but that's a topic for another time. In reality they're hellbent on shutting down and filesharing sites that traffic in their material, and they've (obviously) got the influence to make the government take their side.

So as paranoid as it may sound, I guarantee you right now the government is monitoring every major filesharing site (MediaFire, UserShare, Hulkshare, etc.), just waiting for them to slip up and get shut down. And even if they can't build a strong case, pressure from the labels/studios will eventually push the Feds to just shut them down anyway, knowing that even if the sites fight and win in court, those sites will go bankrupt just trying to fight the gov't in court. (Yep, it's already happened. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you.)

If your eyes just glazed over, here's the point. It's only a matter of if, not when, every file sharing site is shut down. MediaFire? Dead. HulkShare? Dead. UserShare? Dead. This will happen, it's not a debate. And when it does, a decade of hip-hop will be lost along with it.

That's what truly scares me. To be clear filesharing will never be completely stopped, for every site they shut down ten more will take its place, but rappers entire catalogs on now on sites like Hulkshare. Think about it. One day soon a rapper will wake up to find HulkShare's been shut down, which means his last three albums are now gone too. Maybe those albums are gone forever, maybe they've got a hard copy lying around (and you should rappers), but either way every fan who searches for that project will now only find a dead link.

Like home owners in SF's Marina, the vast majority of internet rappers are building their careers on some very shaky ground that can, and eventually will, collapse from underneath them at any moment. Given the proliferation of HulkShare, it's not an exaggeration to say that we could wake up one day to find 50% of all track/mixtape download links dead.

So what can you do? Nothing! Run around and panic!!! Just kidding. The truth is no one knows where this will end up. Look back to 2007 and there's no way you could have predicted what 2012 would have looked like, and we can expect thing to be equally changed in 2017.

But that doesn't mean you should do nothing. 99% of rappers, mostly out of laziness, are seemingly convinced that things will continue just like they are now forever, which is ridiculous. Start thinking long-term. Don't just click that Upload button, really think it through. There are a number of sites and services, from SoundCloud and Bandcamp to The DJBooth and LiveMixtapes, that are exponentially more protected and built for the long-term that file-sharing sites. They all have their pros and cons, but at the vert least take the time to figure out those pros and cons.

And yes, that means you probably can't upload that "The Motto" freestyle you did over an illegally downloads instrumental...but maybe you shouldn't be doing "Motto" freestyles in the first place.
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