EPTBayFiles - alternative to torrents? - Page 2
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John Madden
American Samoa894 Posts
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forcestealer
Canada60 Posts
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intotheheart
Canada33091 Posts
On September 01 2011 21:57 writer22816 wrote: Mediafire has been blocked in China for a long time now. You guys are so lucky T_T In fact by now, pretty much all file sharing sites have been blocked here. Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, Fileserve, Filesonic, and Hotfile are all down.  Can you access TPB? | ||
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nalgene
Canada2153 Posts
There's sites like verycd and 115 that are available for the ones in china... they don't work like mediafire though ( verycd uses emule ) | ||
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nalgene
Canada2153 Posts
On September 02 2011 04:27 TheRealHH wrote: He was being sarcastic about this remark "torrents are illegal because you upload data while you download". Basically what you said there implies all torrents are illegal, and he was sarcastically saying that linux torrents are illegal. And to the OP, I don't think it'll make much of a difference really. Torrents work so well for most people as it is that I don't see this working out so well. I mean I guess it would be handy for a few instances but all in all I still think torrents are better  originally meant to say "it's not illegal in any way" in my head, but my fingers didn't seem to have typed those out... and he already posted before I could edit it anyways... I guess either way works though | ||
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Craton
United States17250 Posts
On September 01 2011 20:22 Nefariously wrote: i don't know how mediafire does it, they're the only site that allows download managers and no wait time on downloads @_@ For awhile they were fighting JDownloader tooth and nail, changing stuff every few days to break JDownloader's hoster plug-in. I think they gave up, since it was too much effort. | ||
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Gamerah
United States85 Posts
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Matharos
Canada211 Posts
 It seems that this is the "safer" way to get my tv shows(I don;t have cable) | ||
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lurked
Canada918 Posts
You know, that 9letters word used to mean something on the internet.......... -_- | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
Also, this new site is not comparable to the pirate bay at all. On most (all?) torrent search engines you can download as much and whatever you want for free and don't have to make any kind of account if you don't want to (Except Demonoid, maybe a few others, but the account itself is free). The point of torrents is that they are completely free, this site is not completely free. Also, the site isn't completely anonymous unless you use an anti-tracking program like Ghostery (google it), as every single site you go to is tracked by Google Analytics, Facebook or other similar things, and I'm pretty sure your ISP can find out anything you've been doing as well no matter what. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On September 03 2011 02:07 Geovu wrote: If I recall correctly the only thing illegal about file sharing is uploading copyrighted content that is able to be downloaded by others for free. Correct me if I'm wrong but downloading torrents isn't illegal, at least in Canada. Also, this new site is not comparable to the pirate bay at all. On most (all?) torrent search engines you can download as much and whatever you want for free and don't have to make any kind of account if you don't want to (Except Demonoid, maybe a few others, but the account itself is free). The point of torrents is that they are completely free, this site is not completely free. Also, the site isn't completely anonymous unless you use an anti-tracking program like Ghostery (google it), as every single site you go to is tracked by Google Analytics, Facebook or other similar things, and I'm pretty sure your ISP can find out anything you've been doing as well no matter what. fairly sure you're wrong i am aware that there is some sort of deal dealing with canadan music being downloaded w.e that means ionno, but i don't think that canadians only dl canadian made music or dont dl games or movies. All sites aren't anonymous at best this site is hosted in some state that would allow it not to keep track of any of it's users but sense you can register as a user they are keeping track of you and thus can be subjected to subpoena if court cases are bought against it just like any file hosting site. | ||
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Evilmystic
Russian Federation266 Posts
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Johnny Business
Sweden1251 Posts
On September 02 2011 23:51 lurked wrote: I see people already shitting on this service, but personally I like having more alternatives, and especially one where the goal is to offer ANONYMITY... You know, that 9letters word used to mean something on the internet.......... -_- "Which data does Bayfiles store about the files I upload? With every upload the following data is stored in addition to the actual file: SHA1 checksum of the uploaded file IP address of the computer from which the upload is started time of the upload to which account the file is supposed to be attached." Bayfiles saves IP addresses like everyone else. http://bayfiles.com/privacy | ||
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Giant Squid Thing
England54 Posts
torrents are the domain of the mentally ill. | ||
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CubEdIn
Romania5359 Posts
On September 03 2011 03:08 Giant Squid Thing wrote: rapidshare/wupload are always the main options for non-peasants. torrents are the domain of the mentally ill. Yes because when I'm downloading 8gb or more, I want to do it @ 100kB/s, not @ 10mB/s, as my connection allows. | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15689 Posts
Unless people have found a way around that O_o | ||
Spazer
Canada8031 Posts
On September 02 2011 10:27 forcestealer wrote: This seems like it would be incredibly easy to spread a virus... Because its impossible to get viruses from torrents, right? -_- On September 03 2011 03:35 Mohdoo wrote: I don't understand the draw to these types of services. Big files always have multiple parts, which means you need to download multiple things, but sites like megaupload and whatnot only let you download 1 file at a time Unless people have found a way around that O_oThe advantage of DDL is that it isn't a torrent. First, its a little more difficult for companies to trace your IP compared to torrents (do note that more difficult does not mean impossible). Second, torrents can sometimes be poorly seeded, if they are seeded at all. This is a particularly big problem with old or unpopular torrents. Contrast that with DDL, which offers the advantage of a relatively constant download speed. As for dealing with multiple files, well, that's what download managers are for. | ||
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Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
On September 02 2011 23:51 lurked wrote: I see people already shitting on this service, but personally I like having more alternatives, and especially one where the goal is to offer ANONYMITY... You know, that 9letters word used to mean something on the internet.......... -_- They are shitting on it because it's nothing new. You have services like Rapidshare, Netload, Megaupload, Wupload, fileserve, filesonic, x7, ul, and so forth since ages. Rapidshare is up since 2004, with a revenue of 5 million euro per month and is ranked in the top 100 in traffic rank (most of the time). Torrent is dead. | ||
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FJ
United Kingdom321 Posts
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