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.
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.
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 No.107129
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.
No.107131
>>107129Imgur wanted to be a social media platform sooo bad
No.107132
>>107131Yeah, I’m surprised that it managed to hold this long
No.107133
>>107129Was 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.
No.107139
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No.107140
>>107133Imgur 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.
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
No.109009
>>109008It 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
No.109012
>>109010I dont know how likely that is to happen again with how keeping things in the know often is considered a faux pa
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
No.109016
>>109010Piracy 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."
No.115911
>>115910stress and country legislation. having to defend his product from people who want to prevent avenues of crime being done through buisness operations
No.115912
Aside from the obvious issues, the site was swamped with scambots
No.115913
>>115910It's illegal for a significant portion of the population to show anyone their /jp/s online.
No.131967
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-20240801It 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.
No.131969
>>131967It 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.
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 destroyAnd this is why the internet would be better off if all people like that were to drop dead
No.133012
why do you think exhentai is immune to this. Isn't the owner a US citizen
No.133013
>>133012Because there's one huge difference in how they've operated.
>which allegedly failed to process takedown noticesPeople knock on Ex for it, but they do respond to takedown notices.
No.133015
>>133013that's a courtroom defence. It would be brought up in court alongside a set of other evidence