#File Sharing

[crisismoth]

Hopefully this works 👍 tell me if it doesn't I'll try and fix it

(this is a big file the download & unzip will take a while)

the link should work for 3 months, I'll decide whether to keep it up or not then.

ps. I might try to create a file minus all the data for the maps as they take a massive amount of space and don't seem to work in game anyways. Might be fixable with commands but I'm still working on it.

edit: smaller file not working will try to fix later.

alternate downloads:

post by @/cquackity

trimmed file by @/blockgamepirate

(ps this post is edited a lot)

hey dsmp lovers I'm uploading the dsmp world to a google drive however its going to take an hour or two but I'll share the link when its ready. maybe by then the main link will work anyways but whatever.

[nando161mando]

[fuzzyghost]

[dihalect]

so, i once saw a self-professed data/media hoarder on tumblr whose media storage server was publicly accessible. (it had movies and tv shows and such; unfortunately i can’t find any trace of it.) i think a setup like that would be best for preserving documentation of the palestinian genocide — those news stories/images/videos need to be saved before they're scrubbed, but they won't do much good sitting on individuals' hard drives.

so we need a centralized repository that can stay up for as long as possible. ideally, anyone would be able to view it, and any vetted person would be able to add to it (vetting to limit the risk of sabotage).

long shot, but are there any data-hoarders/internet archivists/etc. on here who would be interested in helping out with that effort, or taking it on themselves?

edited to add a little context: i could easily automate the scraping of posts from instagram, tiktok, and maybe twitter and tumblr*. it’s the hosting that i’d need help with.

*i don’t think anybody is sharing firsthand documentation on tumblr, but we’ve got a lot of copies of things that may have been deleted elsewhere.

[silvermoon424]

Starting to think I shouldn’t use my personal Google Drive to host all my piracy stuff I share (scans and the like) in case they nuke my entire account lol…. I could always set up an alt account, but does anyone have any recs for good file-sharing sites?

[opendirectories]

[pinckcloud]

File sharing

Hey hey~ Just putting this out here that I have a few assorted 2.5D (mostly Blu-ray) files at my disposal, so do feel free to DM me and I'll send you stuff, if I have what you want!

[shinsources-archived]

This might sound a bit odd but does anyone use Gofile to share, upload, and download stuff?? Now by stuff I obviously mean things you torrent, rip, download, etc. This can be movies, tv shows, music, programs, documents, whatever the case may be. The reason I'm asking is because you can upload files regardless of how big it is and what have you. The only "drawback" is that if it's inactive for 10 consecutive days without downloads that the given file will get deleted. And that's only for the free accounts. You can see more about the different Account Choices here.

It seems pretty chill and legit and it's encrypted/secure so there's that. I definitely like that you can upload stuff that's of several GBs in size and think that's pretty cool. You also technically don't even need an account to upload stuff apparently, so there's that??

[tunnelsystem]

because i’ve overcome some hardware issues i’m going to be taking down a lot of stuff from my google drive (which like... a bunch of those albums were uploaded as MP3′s and just not in a very storage friendly format). kenshi yonezu albums are staying up! and i’m gunna work on shaping up my discogs account so that if anybody really wanted, i could share albums when asked for specific stuff.

[saimu-baghi]

Seedr Made Torrenting Easy

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[silavut]

Holy shit, y'all!! Zippyshare goin' down! Calling it quits! 😢

[thewisemankey]

Kids today will never know the struggle for the pursuit of perfection.

[nando161mando]

[fuzzyghost]

[ijustwantedtobeoneofthestrokesuk]

Y2K Tech

Online

Today our mobile phone is our second brain, we use it for everything except for making phone calls…

We stream tv and music without thinking, we communicate via WhatsApp and DMs, our social media personality is our personality. We are online. In the late ‘90’s/early 2000’s we had to go online, it wasn’t fast, or convenient. It was a different time, unless you didn’t live through it, you didn’t live it.

In 1999 the way we communicated was being redefined as Nokia launched the 3210, the first mobile targetted to teens with snake and coloured covers (easily pleased back then). Over 160 million 3210’s were sold, making it the most popular phone to date. A year later BlackBerry released the first phone that had access to e-mails. BlackBerry were innovative as they brought instant messaging on the go to the market with BBM, their instant messenger service.

We had already been messaging our school friends (and strangers we’d befriended online) with MSN Messenger, on the desktop computer. Messaging strangers online is normal these days but back then you’d be warned out off it, in fear of being groomed but for a generation, it was a new place where friendships could blossom, with people who lived in other countries or people you met at a gig. 

Mobile phones changed language as the 140 character limit on text messages saw the introduction of “text language” to squeeze as much into your 10p text message using “u” for “you”, “4” for “for” etc… but it was MSN Messenger where LOL (laugh out loud) and BRB (be right back) just became modern-day shorthand, even if you weren’t actually laughing... 

How we access content today is unrecognisible to how we did in the 2000’s, but that change started in 1998…

The boom of the CD started in 1984 but it dramatically collapsed in 2000 thanks to 2 tech-obsessed 16-year-olds, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker who met each other online in 1998. They were both highly intelligent, Sean got into coding aged 7, at 14 he discovered ‘hacking’ which opened up a new community to him. Hackers would share information with each other in online forums (we call that world “the dark web” today). 

They both moved to Silicon Valley, the new tech hub in the Bay Area, Calfornia to develop their first project, Napster, leaving school behind. They didn’t think they were doing anything illegal, they were music fans themselves. Napster was revolutionary and has changed the way people consume and value music today but again, their battle was nothing new. The music industry had fought against ‘free’ music before with the introduction of the radio, When the Napster founders had to defend the platform in court, they compared it to photocopy machines and VHS recorders. Napster was a peer-to-peer platform that essentially cut out the middle man, users didn’t need to upload or download MP3 files (songs), they were transferred directly from the user's hard drive.  

The internet has reimagined creative industries including print and film, but it nearly killed the music industry.

Napster started to grow in the fall of 1999 on college campuses where high-speed internet was available. The founders tried to negotiate deals with record labels but they weren’t playing ball and reacted too slow, suddenly it was too late and meetings turned from conversations to legal battles. The ongoing, public legal battles only helped Napster get more popular and more music was shared. Its disruption was unique and investors poured money into the platform but it wasn’t built to make money, it couldn’t be monetized.  

Napster was the first ‘file-sharing’ platform. Before it, having the ability to get music for free was unthinkable, once Napster had gone huge it reached a stage where consumer habits were irreversible, for years.  

It revolutionised how we listen to music. It also birthed the ‘I want it now’ attitude, the ‘on-demand’ culture we live in now started here. We no longer needed to leave the house to buy a CD, come home and listen to it when you could press a couple of buttons, seven minutes later your dial-up connection would download it to your computer. Without Napster and the peer-to-peer generation, we wouldn’t be living in the streaming world. Consumers turn to piracy when they can’t get hold of a product legitimately.  It was morally and legally wrong, users knew that too but it was liberating. It was also an opportunity to discover new music as you could see what else is in the library of the user you’re downloading from. 

While some artists, such as Limp Bizkit supported the platform, seeing it as a gateway for new acts to reach an audience, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, became the most vocal name against it. The band spoke up after hearing one of their songs on radio stations around the world before it was even finished. They were baffled, they didn’t understand how this could have happened, it was traced back to Napster, which they hadn’t heard of. For Metallica, it wasn’t about money, it was about choice, they hadn’t been asked if they would like to be involved, it was out of their hands.  

Lars took the names of 300,000 Napster users who had downloaded Metallica's music to Napster HQ. The platform removed the users but within hours they had created new accounts under new names. Lars was portrayed as the villain but looking back, he was right. 

Napster was hijacking a multi-million-pound creative industry without doing anything however that was never the purpose, it was built with naivety, both Sean and Shawn just thought it was a good idea. It made sense to them.  

For years record labels had been used to making billions of £, suddenly that was taken away. Napster was forced to close down in July 2001 after the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) won the legal battle of copyright infringement but it didn’t solve the problem as users found other platforms. At its peak there were 80 million users on Napster, 20,000 of them were sued by record labels. 

The Birth of Online Music 

In January 2000 Pandora launched in the US, the initial version was an online radio station, an alternative to the already established stations while, 2 months later, in London, Freenet was created, an indestructible file-sharing site, the only way to stop it would be to remove it off every single computer that had used it. 

As Napster was gaining headlines with its very public court cases and legal spats, another peer-to-peer platform launched and this time, it wasn’t limited to sharing MP3 files, which for the user was both good and bad. 

On the 3rd May 2000 Limewire went live and it was responsible for 80% of illegally downloaded content in the US. During its 10-year lifespan, Limewire was downloaded 200 million times, at its most prominent time, it had over 50 million daily users. 

Internet was slow back in the early 2000’s, it could take 2 days to download a film and once downloaded it often didn’t work, it was the wrong film, wrong language, be porn or filled with viruses that would kill your computer. There were numerous court cases linked to videos of minors in porn being shared on Limewire, these were often accidentally downloaded. 

The third major player in peer-to-peer platforms was Kazaa, launched in March 2001 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (who would go on to create Skype). Like Limewire, files of all kinds could be shared and there were plenty of viruses knocking about, including some deliberately created by the RIAA. 

Kazaa’s downfall began in 2003 when the RIAA started to sue its users rather than the platform which saw its user base drop off dramatically and it closed down in 2004.  

Then there was The Pirate Bay from Sweden, created in 2003, the peer-to-peer file-sharing platform with a difference as it used torrent files that were harder to monitor. The platform was shut down several times, only to reappear under new domains. In 2009 The Pirate Bay founders were sentenced to 1 year in prison and fined £2.8 million after being found guilty of copyright infringement. 

To combat illegal downloads Apple launched the iTunes Store in April 2003 where users could pay for MP3s. It was a success story but it came too late, if it had been around when Napster was at its peak it might have had a bigger impact but people knew they could get music for free now. 

Limewire’s presence was much greater than Napster and Kazaa. In 2004 it became the biggest peer-to-peer platform and the second biggest access for digital music, behind the iTunes Store. It gained new users after Napster closed, people discovered it through online forums. Following criticism from the music industry, the developers created a code that would block copyrighted content being shared but users found ways around it. 

The RIAA took Limewire to court in 2006 for copyright infringement while MGM sued Kazaa’s parent company for $100 million. By 2007 the US music industry was losing $12 billion a year from music piracy and in 2010, after a 4-year court battle with the RIAA Limewire was shut down, initially asking for $72 trillion but settled out of court for $105 million. 

For all the bad that illegal downloading brought, it also allowed people to broaden their tastes, musicians had more ways to find influences and create more diverse music. The standard has also had to up its game, an album can no longer get away with a few singles and throw-away fillers.  

NEXT CHAPTER

[fromkenari]

Did no one else learn this from NES emulator disclaimers like I did? If you legally own the Hard Copy, there is no crime in making or attaining a Digital Copy. This goes for all media. There is another point to be made here about how streaming and things like Kindle are disrupting these rights, but many people have already made it, so I'm going to leave it here and say it's only illegal if you share it or don't own the media outright.

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this