Filesonic sharing shutdown

[monkey13]

For non-US users, this probably doesn't affect them at all. But I find it hard to believe that any current user would be a seriously upset over this because disabling the file-sharing option is nothing compared to being fully shutdown and losing all your data like what happened to Megaupload. You can just imagine the billions (trillions?) of MB of data that was lost by megaupload users, much of it that will never be retrievable for many users.

I was thinking about this before. Suppose I own an industrial estate with a number of units. Someone rents one of those units and uses it to manufacture drugs (or some other illegal activity) I can't see how I would be liable in any way unless I knew that was specifically what that unit was used for.

Now imagine that when the drug lab is busted they not only close that unit and take all the materials they close every unit in the estate and seize all of their stuff as well (regardless of if it was illegal or not). There would be outrage. Now even if I, as the owner, were directly participating in the illegal action it would not impact the other units. My assets may be frozen but they wouldn't boot all the businesses out.

Since the DOJ has seized it and denied law abiding users access to their intellectual property (oh the irony) then there should be some kind of class action bought against them.

So why do they get away with this sort of thing on the internet? Why has a whole structure been declared illegal because some people may have been using it to perform illegal activity?

Following that argument the entire internet is breaking the law all the time since it is used for illegal activities. Email is illegal, damn you Nigerian princes, and all email should be stopped. Don't they see how ridiculous the argument is?

[BigDaddy]

Another one bites the dust..

[grik]

Indeed Fileserv is exactly the same. Might as well end, their pourposes of existence are dead.

This costs money to users, when a door closes 2 windows will open, so its a matter of new subscrptions money....and a pain in the ass for the uploaders :)

[+Warwagon MVC]

Looks like one of the sites i'm using has switched to oron.com

[Xoligy]

@BetaAddict most the file sharing sites like fileshare and filesonic make there money from uses buying premium and i would say 80-90% of there users use it to download applications or software that does not belong to them. All they are now is another "backup" company where people can upload there files and download them when they please the problem is there are many sites like this already that charge nothing or less than what filesonic/serve do.

For example i use skydive and dropbox for files i want saved i could pay ?20 a year and use another service (believe it was ?2 a month) and they specialise in data backup of cause i could just buy a nas with raid and do it myself.

[jakem1]

Another one bites the dust..

Isn't Fileserve run by the same company as Filesonic?

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

In the climate that these sites are living in I am sure that a lot of them (hosted in the US) are going to be shutting down over the next couple months.

[+Warwagon MVC]

I think my slogan today will be "I got scared and got a Netflix streaming account"

I just finished Chuck season 2 last night :(