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Why are you going back to transferring files via email? Are MegaUpload and "filesonic.com" the only methods of transferring files other than email or something? Ever heard of Dropbox?

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And what is to say that Dropbox doesn't get the fear and disable sharing too? After all, if a user is sharing a file, they could be pirating a movie and for that Dropbox could be shutdown.

Dropbox has one protection against that, they have very small public share bandwidth quotas per file. So a single file can be downloaded by a dozen people, but not a hundred.

This makes it very ineffectual for the type of wide-spread piracy other file hosting services are subject to.

Dropbox sharing doesn't always suit me, especially when I need to sent really big files to clients, these files tend to linger and take up Dropbox space.

Dropbox is brilliant for teams working together though.

You should check out yousendit, it's like megaupload but without the network effect so it can't be used for piracy.

An interesting take on the file sharing service that I've used occasionally is http://justbeamit.com/ which opens a direct connection between you and the recipient. If you close the window before the file is transferred, the transfer gets cut. It may not be great for large files because of upload speeds, but it can be quicker and easier than Dropbox for transient one-offs.

Reminds me of this little service I used briefly before the Napster shit hit the fan. For the life of me, I can't recall the name, but it was a directory of links (mostly MP3s at the time) and the client appeared to be a SMB client which connected directly to individual PCs for files.

Man, I wish I could remember the name of that program.

Hell, if this file-sharing take-down shit keeps up, we'll end up on USENET again. Better yet, TOR will finally go mainstream.

Might it have been Filequest and Simba?

Are you referring to AudioGalaxy ?

Or MediaFire, or RapidShare, or even Box.net.

I would be hesitant to use the first two right now. They're heavily used for very visible piracy.

rapidshare is a Swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here.

but for corporate file sharing, i would recommend renting a VPS and organizing some simple SSH-based copying with FileZilla, for example. Or some HTTP-based sharing if you want.

rapidshare is a swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here.

Tell that to the pirate bay.

thepiratebay is Swedish, not Swiss.

None of them are sitting in jail right now.

you may need to figure out the difference between Swedish and Swiss

Europe is a country and everyone speaks french there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI

well, to be precisely true, Sharereactor was run by a Swiss guy, and it was indeed torn down by the police. But the guy did not get in jail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor

but Sharereactor was designed for exchanging movies illegally, whereas rapidshare tries to be different :)

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