My guess would be that Mediafire apply takedown notices to both paid and free accounts. Maybe they're more lenient to paid accounts, but I doubt it'll be too different for us. I'm currently trying the idea of cycling accounts every now and then to see how well that goes.
Due to how things are set up, I'm somewhat doubting Mediafire would know where exactly the links are being posted, neither do I think they particularly care. They make money from people using their service, not from stopping people - ideally, they'd do the minimum possible to comply with legal requirements.
I had originally intended to do something like this, but it looks like it won't happen at this point, with so much going on for me. Maybe you could start up a blog perhaps? Or use an existing forum that doesn't mind this?
If not, I'm happy to simply install an existing script here (without much integration; provide suggestions if you wish), as you've been pretty helpful around here, but I don't think it would be any better than if you started one.
I think Mediafire actually look at file contents - filenames are way too unreliable for this type of stuff. Possible workarounds would be to encrypt/"compress" the file, but this means you have to extract it once you've downloaded it, and "previewing" the video won't work.
1. MediaFire seems to be irreplaceable, for some reason. I guess that's because it's almost universally fast and almost universally available. Every other service produces good results in some part of the world and bad results in others, judging from the variety of comments. MU was the only other service that produced relatively consistently good results world-wide. I think therefore the focus of our discussion should be on getting MF, instead of alternates and mirrors.
2. I assume MF has noticed all the traffic coming from here and wants to begin making some money from it, hence our current situation. Rather than ask admin to do any more than he already is, if someone else would be willing to maintain a premium account with MF and arrange for the AT bots to use that account? I don't see any other real alternatives. (Well, maybe one but I'd feel bad -tricking MF by randomizing submissions and user addresses.)
3. I worry that the charm of this hobby will fade for admin.
Maybe changing the extension of the files can help. Eg. instead of putting .001 or .mkv or .avi for the files extensions admin can try changing them to .ats, .fmf or any irrelevent extensions... See will this help the durability of the files.
I would love to help mirror mediafire links and such but it's so hard to keep track of things on this website. I wish there was some sort of forum or CMS that can allow people to PM me/Message me or a thread where I could keep my links =|. Any ideas, admin?
It's exactly why I've been trying to avoid using accounts. There's some things I can try, but I'm doubting their viability long-term. Thanks for the notice + suggestion regardless.
Actually, MirrorStack decided to start working again. They're somewhat unreliable, so I wouldn't keep my hopes up that they'll continue to work (have been disabled in the past due to excessive errors) but at least for now, files will get some additional mirrors.
get HJSplit then join them when you join it, it should open up to your documents and the 1st part .001 should show up and just click it and it'll joined them together already easy & done you dont have to install it or anything
lol well that's true but hey if it was a little bigger people would notice and know why the site is having problems :P but since you reply to our comment's it's fine but yeah you're statement is very true x)
Well, to be fair, no-one reads announcements anyway. People come for the content, not to read announcements, so I thought I'd do everyone a favour and make them as unobtrusive as possible :)
I was just introduced to a great site with good download speed and no captchas and waiting time. Though i heard they are relatively new, but I don't see the harm in letting admin know of it if any of the present filehost starts failing.
15/05/2012 15:20 — Blueberry