Filehost Advice & Solutions after major host takedowns.

[buttsie]

Before you start your research to find a new home check that it isnt Banned on VEF

The test forum
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/f55-test-forum.html

is the perfect place to simply enter the ADDRESS name ie rapidshare . com (without the space)
and hit preview....
******* = banned host - go no further




DOWNLOAD - PICTURE GUIDES


Download button trickery - how to avoid it
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=151

Hugefiles
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...33&postcount=5

Rapidshare (obsolete)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=155

Filejoker com / net for free user downloads
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=178

K2s / keep2share - key captcha
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=179




PREFERRED HOST LIST

Set up for Classic Movies
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...57#post2507857



INACCESSIBLE HOSTS

Trouble shooting
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...0&postcount=24


The likes of TORRENT FREAK in recent months have been posting articles that would have saved a few people from signing up or renewing to a host that was being targetted

Their the number 1 spot to go
Anonym zu torrentfreak.com/


Equal number 1 would be your own ISPs FORUM - the USERS there will be the ones that should be able to give you relevant feedback as to how good a host really is IN YOUR REGION

Number 2 is the filehosts own News bulletins / forum
- at least to see if their experiencing any issues their willing to give feedback on
This one is more if your totally locked out of a filehost

Last but not least the filehosts FAQs / terms and Conditions - READ THEM
I've lost count of how many sign-up thinking all hosts are the same only to find huge variations


FILEHOSTS COMPARED - INCOMPLETE List

Anonym zu en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services


RETENTION PERIODS of Files - for free registered users & anonymous guests - best & Worst list

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=127

CAPTCHAS - when there are 2 you need only enter the 1

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=124

NO SCRIPT (FIREFOX ADD_ON) / SCRIPT BLOCKERS FILEHOST ISSUES
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=122




As there is WAR going on which goes beyond the FBI takedown of MU
all filehosts are potential targets.

Putting all your content into one host is risky regardless of how good any one host is.

Making sure they have the ability to REMOTE UPLOAD to another host a very important feature
as this means you can avoid having to completely re-upload anew everything lost if you catch it in time.


The War on Cyberlockers part 1 - Adultking.com

2 stories from torrent freak July5th & update October 6th
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...7&postcount=61

Part 2 - maybe over - at least this portion of the attack
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=154


AMERICA and Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement 22.12.2012

Given Russia is often a last refuge for filehosts that are being targetted
not an insignificant event

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=103




INDEX of this THREADS TOPICS covered




LINKS DEAD - VIOLATION MESSAGE (mediafire blocking forum links)
solutions - addons - posts 9-11

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...30&postcount=8
Archived Block message - variation on above
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=123





FILE DELETION PREVENTION by an ex-filehost script worker
based on FACTS not GUESSWORK

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...4&postcount=13





PASSWORDS

They wont stop files getting deleted - see above link - it doesnt

From what little i've read most use it to protect the files from those stealing them
ie remote uploaders who piggyback off of the work of others and post the complete posts onto other forums.




REFUNDS PAYPAL?

Post 2,3 & 6...Post 4 feedback




ACCUSING LETTER from ISP, LAWYER or COPYRIGHT HOLDER is received

How to react when a letter accusing you of infringing via the mail arrives?

PDF on torrent freak called - The SPECULATIVE INVOICING HANDBOOK
shows step by step what your options are

Link at bottom of this post - leads to bgafd.co.uk - direct download of the PDF

Dead as of 21.8.17 - replaced with link to general page on TF about copyright trolls
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...6&postcount=21



REWARDS - FREE USER UPGRADES NOT CASH


Depositfiles
(free upgrade scheme restarted 2019 for free users ,cash rewards ended 2021)

100 manual downloads on files 20mb+= 1 week free upgrade = 350gb (50gb a day limit)
170 manual downloads = 2 week free upgrade = 700gb
300 manual downloads = 1 month free upgrade

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=186

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...3&postcount=23

Rewards free upgrade versus Cash Hosts
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...5&postcount=52

Brief History of major cash hosts
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...6&postcount=60

Payout rates mentioned on torrent freak for 2 french sites
An eye opener for anyone thinking of posting to earn money
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...9&postcount=70




UPLOADED CONTENT BEING STOLEN



Your Uploads being copied
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...7&postcount=65




INDIVIDUAL FILEHOST ISSUES & REVIEWS




RAPIDSHARE - closing for good by 31/3/2015


Speeds - downloads freezing (OBSOLETE)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...0&postcount=16

Free user Download speeds - permanent BUT AT WHAT PRICE (OBSOLETE)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...0&postcount=63

27.11.12 rapidshare introduce severe limits on downloading of uploaded content in lieu of increased speeds for both free users (1GB a day) &
paying members (30Gbs a day - upgraded to 50Gb a day)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...4&postcount=69

Permission to download denied message tutorial with step by step pictures by Denaniel
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...21&postcount=1

Storage Now Limited 25.3.2013 (Now amended to 8.4.2013)

RapidPro customers will get to choose between 250 GB or 500 GB

Free users with more than 5 GB of data in their account will be notified of the exceeded storage space limit and will get the chance to purchase the appropriate RapidPro offer or to delete files. There will be no changes for free users who are using less than 5 GB storage space

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=1082


MEDIAFIRE


free user access changed - unlimited to restricted
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...2&postcount=20
2nd tightening of free user access - 10 downloads a week for certain file types
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...7&postcount=53



FILE FACTORY



Review
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...0&postcount=92







RAPIDGATOR (Unbanned 23/12/2012)


Deleting cookies - actually gained access after being denied
Different types of connections - some gain access others dont
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...0&postcount=28



How to clean cookies manually above

Deleting cookie - rapidg - before & during - solves accessibility issues
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...5&postcount=68

You need to register an account to access their files
(15.8.2013 - appears to no longer be the case)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...7&postcount=31

No script interfering with their Captcha - possibly needs to be disabled
(15.8.2013 - appears to no longer be the case but the
site and solve media still need to be allowed on consecutive screens)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...0&postcount=35

Forums banning them...credit card companies abandoning them (19.10.2012)
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...2&postcount=55

Mentioned as being a key target for take down
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=103

MALWARE (PUP.Offerware) via their download manager
- beware of anything which ends in .exe - post 28
(15.82013 - last 3 files downloaded recently show no sign of this anymore)
dead link removed

[kogi]

Ah. These filehosts shutdowns are turning into a farce. My advice to anyone would be sure to be within the time limit of paypal buyer protection program: 45 days of purchase. I was not - having bought 3 months of premium membership. So they couldn't help me. Well, some costly lessons had to be learned here. I might of course suggest buying a lifetime premium membership with Mega Upload instead which I also did ... no wait... If Rapid Share now goes down I fear having a nervous breakdown leading to something insane... like watching Fox News and let them shape my world view.

On a sidenote buttsie raises some good question in his initial post. Is password protection necessary?

I don't see the need on Rapidshare due to their privacy guidelines (no software scanning their files; and if the link is posted elsewhere I'm quite sure any rar password will too) but this might change in the future if they follow suit to Filesonic's ideas and implement some ***cking Skynet countermeasures (to use a term from the old Terminator movies) to track file data and so on. Whatever Filesonic do from now on - I won't even fart in their general direction.

[buttsie]

Message on their site I just noticed

PAYPAL HAVE CLOSED OUR ACCOUNT

If we cannot resolve the payment processing - we will have to close the site

Bare with us while we try fix this problem

Admin


Expect this wont be the last time they cut a host off at the knees

Almost makes either sticking with the big hosts that have been around for years and seemingly are bullet proof ie rapidshare,mediafire or what ever long standing premium filehost your using

or try one of the multihosts but be aware some like mirror creator
have in the Terms and conditions - no porn - so if they find your stash most likely goodbye entire account as opposed to a file here and there being removed via DMCA notices.

dead link removed

which then means if one host is nobbled your posts will still be active



One things almost certain and thats uploaders should never use any filehost as a backup
for their collection

[buttsie]

On our sister site planet suzy in filehost Mediafire sticky

A nasty little trick their using to try and stop the
google indexing / files on 3rd party forums from being downloaded

This is also being used on the search engine files tube for mediafire links


This snippet from a user


"Originally Posted by ZamIt View Post

Anyone else noticed a sneaky little trick mediafire is doing with planetsuzy links?

If I highlight a mediafire link in firefox and "open link in a new tab", it shows up an invalid link(file deleted for terms of service reason).

However, if you copy the link and make your own tab and paste the link, the link is okay!

It looks to me as though "open link in a new tab" leaves some trace of the planetsuzy forum, and mediafire will just give you that invalid link message.

I experimented with that "open link in a new tab" from google cache, and the links were fine.

I couldn't figure out the difference in the links between the cache and the PS forum, when I realized the links themselves were no different.

The difference is the original source of the link."

[lds17pl]

Originally Posted by buttsie

... If I highlight a mediafire link in firefox and "open link in a new tab", it shows up an invalid link(file deleted for terms of service reason)...

...It looks to me as though "open link in a new tab" leaves some trace of the planetsuzy forum, and mediafire will just give you that invalid link message...

checking by using Do Not Track Plus (please see post above) these trackers were detected at PlanetSuzy with Mediafire (MF) links:
- Facebook Connect
- Google Analytics
- eXTReMe Tracking

clicking MF link at both opening at new tab as well as at new window instead "invalid link" this message appears by MF:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
File Blocked for Violation.

The file you requested has been blocked for a violation of our Terms of Service.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

=> To me MF uses Google Analytics to estimate you are/link is stored at PlanetSuzy.
_____________

Originally Posted by buttsie

...However, if you copy the link and make your own tab and paste the link, the link is okay! ...

by this you bypass MF

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by buttsie

On our sister site planet suzy in filehost Mediafire sticky

A nasty little trick their using to try and stop the
google indexing / files on 3rd party forums from being downloaded

This is also being used on the search engine files tube for mediafire links


This snippet from a user


"Originally Posted by ZamIt View Post

Anyone else noticed a sneaky little trick mediafire is doing with planetsuzy links?

If I highlight a mediafire link in firefox and "open link in a new tab", it shows up an invalid link(file deleted for terms of service reason).

However, if you copy the link and make your own tab and paste the link, the link is okay!

It looks to me as though "open link in a new tab" leaves some trace of the planetsuzy forum, and mediafire will just give you that invalid link message.

I experimented with that "open link in a new tab" from google cache, and the links were fine.

I couldn't figure out the difference in the links between the cache and the PS forum, when I realized the links themselves were no different.

The difference is the original source of the link."

Recently tested a mediafire link posted in the last week and got this message

Archive Download Blocked

The file you attempted to download is an archive that is damaged or possibly encrypted. MediaFire does not support unlimited downloads of broken or encrypted archives and the limit for this file has been reached. This file may only be distributed from a premium account.

We have informed the owner that sharing of this file has been limited and how they can resolve this issue.

Still have questions, or think we've made a mistake? Please contact support for further assistance.



I assumed it was dead but tried the

Open new tab - right clicking link - copy link location - open new tab - left click into address bar - enter

It worked

Never assume dead is dead with this crowd

[buttsie]

This little tip was posted on another forum awhile back

Of the 2 things presented below you only need solve the letter puzzle on the left

The kerbside numbering which is obscured every now and then doesnt even need to be input.I got this word wrong and another was offered which i got right.

I didnt even enter the number




If you get the letters wrong,which I do 2/3 times in every 10 because their ambiguous
a new one appears

I've only come across one filehost which didnt offer a new puzzle in response to an incorrect guess.

[palo5]

Originally Posted by buttsie

...
I've only come across one filehost which didnt offer a new puzzle in response to an incorrect guess.

I've had that too. After making one mistake the host said something like "You have exhausted your captchas for today. Try again tomorrow"

I use a lot of filehosts, but am fairly sure it was uplo@ded.net. You need a lot of patience downloading from them, unless it's a location thing, as you've mentioned in previous posts

[h972794]

Firefox has an addon called RefControl.
You can block the referrer for specific websites.
This should resolve this problem.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/refcontrol/

[lds17pl]

to block tracking I use this recommended browser add-ons

- Share Me Not
- Do Not Track Plus

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=190

btw: at moment these trackers are blocked
- Facebook Connect
- eXTReMe Tracking
- Google Analytics

note: to remove Google redirection please see
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=191