Hotfile's days appear to be numbered. The cyberlocker service today settled its lawsuit with major movie studios and will be required to shut down unless it can effectively implement "digital fingerprinting" technologies that prevent users from uploading copyrighted films to its servers.

Continue: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/3/5172126/hotfile-agrees-to-pay-hollywood-studios-80-million-piracy-settlement

 

from the ashes a phoneix will rise?

 

Movie studios that have billions of dollars, lobby governments extensively and basically do everything in their power to ensure that they can continue raping their customers for years to come win a court case...you don't say. That's why I don't even go to the movies anymore so I can stick it to them where it really hurts. The irony is that Hotfile had one of the fastest removal times in the business and it won't matter one bit because that fingerprinting nonsense won't stop shit. Maybe these assholes should remember that even dinosaurs aren't immune to extinction.

 

Can anything of interest be found on Hotfile these days?

 

Not really but what worries me is that this can set a legal precedent. If you play chess you know that you always have to think a few moves ahead.

 

nope, they tried to appease the bully boys but still got shafted, that tells you all you need to know

 

Only one move more than your opponent (as one strong player once said).

 

Yep, end of an era.

My first ever successful attempts at downloading were carried out via Hotfile, back when they were king of the hosters.

Slowly, slowly "THEY" are eroding the incredible freedoms that the iNet once brought us. I wish I knew how to make a difference, I mean a REAL difference, other than signing the odd petition, etc, but, it seems "THEY" are in no mood to give up "THEIR" almost limitless powers. Sad thing is Bill Cooper, may the Lord rest his soul, warned of what was coming way back in the 90`s. The totalitarian tip toe is what David Icke calls it, one small step at a time until it is so far gone it becomes too late to do anything about it. Or maybe it is all just "conspiracy theory" dreamt up by the paranoid fringe of our society.

 

maybe this is the time using private server, i used to be a member one of it .. owned by Jerome .. i forgot the name of the site

 

Sure I'll send you the bill for how much it will cost and you can spend all the time it takes to maintain such a thing.

 

I miss Samplewhoring on Hotline, back in the good old days.