General Chat

[unohoo09]

I uploaded a remix pack a few weeks ago, but Mediafire killed the link. What's the best site to upload to so I can avoid link death through copyright violation prevention?

[Chris]

I Think Mediafire Is The Best, No Wait Times, Not Many Capcha Codes (Only On Big Files)... As Far As The Copyright Thing, I've Noticed That If You Upload "Brand New Artist - Brand New Track (Acapella)" They Will Kill The Link... But If You Rename It "BNA-BNT-A" Or Something Like That, They Over Look It...

[Thr33]

ADDiCT is right. It helps creating an account on Mediafire or 4shared is also good. Like ADDiCT said, rename your files to something less obvious, abreviate them or remove the vowels.

[gillbates]

I've got in to the habit of using the first two letters of each word...

Michael Jackson - Can't Stop Til You Get Enough
WOULD THEN BECOME...
Mi Ja - Ca St Ti Yo Ge En.rar

with or without spaces as they're capital letters

[BBM]

Yea, I still use mediafire. They've never removed any of my files even though I haven't changed any of the naming. Probably because I pay the 9$/month for their upper tier service lol.

[unohoo09]

I've never thought about addressing the issue like that, thanks! I have an account with MediaFire but one of my uploads was made undownloadable for people other than me. Thanks guys!

[pablo blue]

I use mediafire too, but either name my files with random names, or zip them into folders with cryptic names. I think unless you take the piss and upload loads of *insert names of whoever is in the charts at the moment* files, blind eyes are turned!

I like mediafire because people who don't have an account can download stuff without jumping through hoops and closing endless popups.

Also, you can create loads of subfolders to help you organise your uploads.

[CoBrA2168]

Hmm interesting. I never realized that they were looking at the words in the downloads. I thought they actually had an algorithm to analyze the bytes of the file to determine if it matched something in their database.