Anonymous 03/20/23 (Mon) 03:13:20 No. 106612
Yeah Mediafire going down would be apocalyptic for older downloads. But I think every time I've seen a zippyshare link to something it's always been accompanied by a variety of other links to other similar sites so the impact should be fairly limited. Although it'll suck that one of the better dl sites is out of the picture.
Anonymous 03/20/23 (Mon) 05:26:57 No. 106614
The Internet's fate is ephemeral, and temporary. Because, technology is not eternal. The only thing that is eternal is you. I guess that's what Lain was all about.
Anonymous 03/20/23 (Mon) 09:03:45 No. 106615
I'm still mad about the shutdown of megaupload, that really was a catastrophic loss considering it made %4 of total internet traffic at its peak. Used to download so many games from there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 17:37:54 No. 107129 >>107131 >>107133 >>107139
Let’s make this the graveyard thread…
Imgur joins the rank of several other free image hosts before it. They will delete anonymous uploads (explicitly mentioning old images too) and nsfw contents starting from May 15:
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/ Lots of old images will be deleted, including old forum posts, and some archives like 4archive.org which hosts images there. Archive everything while you still can.
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 17:41:40 No. 107131 >>107132 >>107133
>>107129 Imgur wanted to be a social media platform sooo bad
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 17:47:01 No. 107132
>>107131 Yeah, I’m surprised that it managed to hold this long
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 17:51:05 No. 107133 >>107140
>>107129 Was imgur intended to be a permanent media repository? I always thought of it as "the Reddit image host" until Reddit started hosting their own images and then Imgur became a pseudo-social media site after that, like
>>107131 said.
I'm not surprised that they're deleting old content because that didn't seem like the purpose of the site, it was more for sharing something that will be forgotten about a month later.
It's a shame to see the nsfw crackdown though.
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 18:16:46 No. 107139
>>107129 aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 19:59:31 No. 107140
>>107133 Imgur allows embedding images on third party websites so lots of forum posts and some websites use it to embed images. That's what makes it different from other image sharing social media sites, especially since other services that allow embedding all went bust, like tinypic that was commonly used on forums.
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 21:31:20 No. 107142
i made sure to download all my imgur uploads a while back though i think some still had been deleted over the years
Anonymous 05/31/23 (Wed) 16:26:15 No. 109009 >>109010
>>109008 It sucks. But I think Bitsearch and iDope can still find western stuff easily.
Really, you can find almost anything public by using Weboasis hard enough but I fear about the future of piracy
Anonymous 05/31/23 (Wed) 16:45:23 No. 109012
>>109010 I dont know how likely that is to happen again with how keeping things in the know often is considered a faux pa
Anonymous 05/31/23 (Wed) 16:50:21 No. 109013
I have started a physical library since bookzz and ebookee died also, I recommend you do so if you can for the medium you're passionate about if it can be controlled through copyright in your country
Anonymous 05/31/23 (Wed) 18:33:29 No. 109016
>>109010 Piracy being mainstream isn't about people being able to find pirate sites, it's about how many are content using legal services. Everybody knows they can Google something and watch it for free, but they also have a dozen streaming site accounts shared between their friends and family letting them watch whatever without having to worry about "doing the wrong thing."
Anonymous 11/09/23 (Thu) 07:11:26 No. 115911
>>115910 stress and country legislation. having to defend his product from people who want to prevent avenues of crime being done through buisness operations
Anonymous 11/09/23 (Thu) 07:33:46 No. 115912
Aside from the obvious issues, the site was swamped with scambots
Anonymous 11/09/23 (Thu) 08:40:02 No. 115913
>>115910 It's illegal for a significant portion of the population to show anyone their /jp/s online.
Anonymous 08/02/24 (Fri) 02:26:49 No. 131967 >>131969 >>131973
https://www.romhacking.net/ Sadly it seems something terrible happened behind the scenes at romhacking.net/ and its admin is turning it mostly read-only. He at least put it up on archive.org, so go download it.
https://archive.org/details/romhacking.net-20240801 It seems some psychopaths on discord and twitter tried to steal the site from under him or something? I don't know, but it was still an active site with new uploads today so this is awful. "ROM hacking" is also synonymous with "ROM translating", from the scripts to the software used to make it possible patch them. I've used the site for like 15 years, most recently a few months ago since I'm not too big on non-translation rom hacks these days.
Anonymous 08/02/24 (Fri) 02:56:44 No. 131969
>>131967 It really is a blessing that the internet archive exists. It's not just websites, I've downloaded stuff ranging from Soviet animated films to 19th century dialectal dictionaries, and between a third and a half of the .pdfs I download nowadays all say "digitized by the Internet Archive." I'm gonna go donate to them again.
Anonymous 08/02/24 (Fri) 03:17:54 No. 131973
>>131967 >When I went to startup phase 2, I discovered a most dishonest and hate filled group. I learned that I had been dehumanized for a very long time. My personal details had been given out. Secret deceitful plots had been made to cut me out, and drop a bomb like I am a target to destroy And this is why the internet would be better off if all people like that were to drop dead
Anonymous 09/05/24 (Thu) 15:08:22 No. 133012 >>133013
why do you think exhentai is immune to this. Isn't the owner a US citizen
Anonymous 09/05/24 (Thu) 15:10:00 No. 133013 >>133015
>>133012 Because there's one huge difference in how they've operated.
>which allegedly failed to process takedown notices People knock on Ex for it, but they do respond to takedown notices.
Anonymous 09/05/24 (Thu) 15:24:58 No. 133015
>>133013 that's a courtroom defence. It would be brought up in court alongside a set of other evidence