MediaFire becoming strict?

[BlueLight]

Re: MediaFire becoming strict?

How well does a 7z file with in a zip file work?
Also i believe that microsoft has this file type called a briefcase file which is rarely used so maybe that would throw off MF.

I know when i release a alpha to one of my games i like to use Media fire because of how easy it is for all parties.

 

[molitar]

Re: MediaFire becoming strict?

Forget mediafire.. they banned me for porn for the RPG Maker Games which were .. saying it is adult content which is not allowed.

Hello ,

I looked up your account and it was suspended for uploading pornographic content which violates our Terms of Service. Your account will not reopened because of that violation.

So they do not allow any adult content at all even when fan made 2D characters. They are not worth 2 cents anymore as a service.

 

[helhansen84]

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according to other users zippyshare would be an adequate option to mediafire.
but we still have to see how the internet according to sharing possibilities will change due to MEGA's uber conditions. MEGA is an option imo, but its still not accepted due to its obvious connection to chrome which a lot of people dont like because of various reasons.
i can upload/mirror files to MEGA, but it has (for free user) a limited traffic per month. so i think the best way to overcome this situation, is having multiple users using different hosters and work together to ensure comfortable downloads of content which a lot of users like to aquire.

besides that, i personally have a bad feeling about sharing the newest games. old stuff is not a problem since nobody would buy it anyway until some good guy greg shows up and actually buys stuff that he perhaps overlooked for a few years. i already took down a few files years ago, because a developer officially asked to remove them, because he wants to make a living with his art... and i deeply respect that.
this whole sharing thing is just not only about personal fap time.

but if people have problems due to regional differences or whatever, i am avaiable to mirror files like translated versions etc. technically i can use almost all filehosters for dl to some degree... would be a MEGA mirror though.

 

[myrubbish2001]

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What about

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?

I haven't had any problems with them so far. Some folks do complain about the 1 hour delay they put between downloading files, but I think that's a small price to pay for having a good host.

On a related note, I will discourage folks from using

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. They may be Russian and have no problems with adult content, but they do have "expiry dates". I uploaded about 600MB worth of stuff to them about 3 weeks ago. I finally got ready to release it publicly a couple of days back and I discovered that they deleted my files because no-one "accessed" them for a set period of time (which I'm guessing is 2 weeks)

 

[Wolf624]

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What about

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I haven't had any problems with them so far. Some folks do complain about the 1 hour delay they put between downloading files, but I think that's a small price to pay for having a good host.

On a related note, I will discourage folks from using

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. They may be Russian and have no problems with adult content, but they do have "expiry dates". I uploaded about 600MB worth of stuff to them about 3 weeks ago. I finally got ready to release it publicly a couple of days back and I discovered that they deleted my files because no-one "accessed" them for a set period of time (which I'm guessing is 2 weeks)

It's actually a three hour wait between each download.

Here is their ToS part of what they'll removed if asked:

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In particular, all information (including files and content) shall be deemed incompatible with these TOS which:

• can adversely affect, damage or destroy software or hardware and, in particular which contains malicious code such as computer viruses;
• infringes on intellectual property rights, in particular patent, trade mark or copyrights;
• satisfies the elements of libel, slander or defamation;
• publishes personal data without the consent of the affected party or without legal permission;
• is racist, glorifies violence or war, trivialises violence or incites sedition;
• denies or trivialises acts committed under National Socialist rule;
• incites hatred against sections of the population or against a national, racial, religious or ethnic group, invites violent or capricious acts against such groups or attacks human dignity of other persons by insulting, maliciously ridiculing or defaming sections of the population or one of the above-referenced groups;
• offends human dignity, such as by displaying dying or severely physically or mentally ill persons;
• is pornographic, in particular containing depictions involving children or minors in inappropriate, sexually suggestive positions, sexual abuse or displays sexual acts of humans with animals.
• is obviously apt to constitute a grave risk to the development of children and minors or their upbringing as responsible members within the community, taking into account the particular influence of the medium of dissemination.

 

[helhansen84]

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What about

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?

uploaded.net is for me one of the worst filehosters ever. that's what i meant when talking about regional differences.
so i think we should use a decentralized way of sharing files to assure everyone can enjoy content without needless posting about "i can't use this hoster, because <insert random problem>"
i have like 45 gb free space to upload right now for MEGA mirrors. that should help a bit... at least for those, who have satisfying access to MEGA. but there are others, perhaps like you, who can use uploaded.net to the same extend. if we found a way to make sure everyone here could have acces without major problems... that would be great

@wolf
you're helping a lot imo.
the waiting time of uploaded.net can be easily avoided though

 

[fatmancory]

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My fighting yuna links are still up, so Its just about finding the right encryption program.

 

[Hentie]

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How do you folks find 4shared or google's shared drive?

I tried out 4shared extensively recently (Finally got to building my own version of mugen / queens of fighter, and that mugen forum almost uses 4shared exclusively) and found it pretty fast, and being able to download everything in 1 combined package is nice. So far I found no download limit either, except for a 20 sec wait for free users.

Granted you need to register an account (or use your pre-existing google account), but once you spend the few minutes it takes to figure 4shared out it seems to be pretty decent. The upload aspect I haven't played around with yet, but it looks easy to use with somewhat generous restrictions.

Google drive I've never used myself so I can't comment much on it.

 

[tryguy]

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i have like 45 gb free space to upload right now for MEGA mirrors.

As of a few days ago, there's actually no upper limit. Someone managed to upload something like 350 GB on a free account. They might change that though.

 

[helhansen84]

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i can imagine that. it's still beta... they don't keep up with ip changes ect. so it's beneficial right now.

on 4shared:
i dont like it, because people who want to download have to make an account.... smells fishy.

 

[BlueLight]

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What if some one made a program to shift all the "Char" in the file, up by one digit for the 7z file, then you put the 7z file in a zip file that also had a decoder packaged with it.

The program would have to scrub the archive file of it's name, but you should be able to put that information in a text file and have the decoder reapply it.

I'd say that file sizes would increase by 10 to 50 MB per file if you were using java.

 

[Wolf624]

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i can imagine that. it's still beta... they don't keep up with ip changes ect. so it's beneficial right now.

on 4shared:
i dont like it, because people who want to download have to make an account.... smells fishy.

Also, 4shared's ToS has the same problem as Uploaded.net

You agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish through the Service any of the following:

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• Customer Data that is libelous, defamatory, profane, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit, indecent, lewd, vulgar, suggestive, violent, harassing, hateful, threatening, offensive, discriminatory, bigoted, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent, deceptive or otherwise objectionable;
• Customer Data that is illegal or unlawful, that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, or otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law;
• Customer Data that may infringe or violate any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of privacy, right of publicity or other intellectual property right or other right of any party; and
• Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or code, script or other software designed to automate any functionality on the Service without 4shared's express written consent.

 

[helhansen84]

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if i could rep you properly, you would have more than those who gained their green dots years ago. but that's the way those people want it.
today it's just a click, but they don't contribute anymore.

 

[myrubbish2001]

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on 4shared:
i dont like it, because people who want to download have to make an account.... smells fishy.

THIS is something I don't like either.

As far as TOS violations go, I think we have to accept the fact that whatever we want to upload, we'll end up breaking some rule or the other. I mean, we're talking about hentai here. There's no way most other people won't see that as porn. Heck, that's what I classify it as!

I'm actually cool with MEGA, but I don't like the way they handle downloads. Its not a regular downloader. With chrome, they actually download the file to the browser's temporary cache before showing you that "save as" dialog.

@BlueLight,
We can accomplish the same end-effect by using a password protected zip file and renaming the extension. Hmm... actually, would that work? Just password protect your file and rename it as a .m4v file. Or some other extension that would get it mistaken for a binary glob.

Now I have an interesting idea - why not use

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If we "hide" our zip files inside a video, technically we won't be violating the TOS. Or at least, we can pretend that we're not. True, it means uploading an even bigger file, but if it stays online even longer, then why not? Random searching led me to this tool,

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Haven't tested it out, but will do so over the next few hours.

 

[kiko]

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What about Zippyshare.They don't delete anything (from what i experienced).
I have uploaded tons of files to zippyshare,including Porn,Hentai,Games,Software,Movies and no files were removed.How 'bout that?

 

[kiko]

Re: MediaFire becoming strict?

i can imagine that. it's still beta... they don't keep up with ip changes ect. so it's beneficial right now.

on 4shared:
i dont like it, because people who want to download have to make an account.... smells fishy.

4shared is okay.I've been using it for downloading files.It's not fishy.And the download speeds get up to 300 kbyte/s.

 

[BlueLight]

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@BlueLight,
We can accomplish the same end-effect by using a password protected zip file and renaming the extension. Hmm... actually, would that work? Just password protect your file and rename it as a .m4v file. Or some other extension that would get it mistaken for a binary glob.

Now I have an interesting idea - why not use

If we "hide" our zip files inside a video, technically we won't be violating the TOS. Or at least, we can pretend that we're not. True, it means uploading an even bigger file, but if it stays online even longer, then why not? Random searching led me to this tool,


Haven't tested it out, but will do so over the next few hours.

To answer your first question, no because A) either the programs used to extract archives is to smart to be fooled by no extensions or B) there is extra data stored within the file. I tested a 7z file, gave it no extension and just told 7zip to extract it.I had no problems. I'd be shocked if a microsoft file, common file type could do something that 7z file can't. The extensions just tell a computer what program to use, but if they check, using all the programs for those sneaky people trying to circumvent their system, they will find the file type.

I wont use that idea because i don't know what it is; i'd have to do extended research; and i don't know if java supports it. I am basing this on what i could program.

Putting a file in a picture, i know it can be done with windows tools but the problem is that i have no clue how to do it in java and it's kinda a long winded process using windows. Then you get the fact you have picture files that work, with 1400 by 1200 pixel that equal up to MB worth of data; and that's going to get people asking questions. If people ask questions, then they might try to see if you are hiding files in pictures. I think all they have to do is look for it and they found it.

Hiding files in videos would be harder to track since you've got so many variables that could make a video larger or smaller, and i don't think their are tools normal windows to put files in videos; but i don't like the idea of that software. i guess it seems like over kill.

 

[myrubbish2001]

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@BlueLight,

You were volunteering to write the application? That's ... a LOT of work. And well, to be honest, with all the bad press that Java's got lately, I refuse to let it exist on my computer. I used to use jdownloader, but have gotten rid of it.

On the matter of hiding things in video, I just tried out a few free software - the results are not encouraging. To hide a 5MB zip file, it seems that I need a 150MB+ video file. That is just not worth the effort ...

Hmmm... the other suggestions are for zippyshare and 4shared. I need to check them out sometime ...

 

[Atmo]

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I'm trying to pass down my 3~4gb of doujins to MEGA, but the terms kinda creeps me.

What you can't do

17. You can't:

17.1 assign or transfer any rights you have under these terms to any other person without getting our written agreement;

17.2 do anything that would damage, disrupt or place an unreasonable burden on our website or service or anyone else's use of our website or a service including but not limited to denial of service attacks or similar;

17.3 infringe anyone else's intellectual property (including but not limited to copyright) or other rights in any material.

17.4 resell or otherwise supply our services to anyone else without our prior written consent;

17.5 use our website or a service, including, without limitation, any communication tools available through the website, or any forum, chat room or message centre that we provide:

17.5.1 to store, use, download, upload or otherwise transmit, data in violation of any law (including to breach copyright or other intellectual property held by us or anyone else);

17.5.2 to send unwelcome communications of any kind (including but not limited to unlawful unsolicited commercial communications) to anyone (e.g. spam or chain letters);

17.5.3 to abuse, defame, threaten, stalk or harass anyone;

17.5.4 to store, use, download, upload or otherwise transmit, unsuitable, offensive, obscene or discriminatory information of any kind;

17.5.5 to run any network scanning software, spiders, spyware, robots, open relay software or similar software;

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17.5.7 to use any software or device which may hinder the services (like mail bombs, war dialing, pinging etc.);

17.5.8 to attempt to gain unauthorised access to any services other than those to which you have been given express permission to access; or

17.5.9 to try to trick or defraud anyone for any reason (e.g. by claiming to be someone you are not).

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[Hentie]

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Well considering mega's pass incarnation, it stands to reason that they'd tighten up their written ToS.

What's important however is their interpretation and execution (as with most things of this nature), which remains to be seen.