May I ask what site is that, the audio scene site?

 

Please check your mailbox.

 

Agree with the requests of free users, but don't forget about the premium users, my suggestion is that there must be an alternative section for "premium only links" 3gb to 5gb links for big releases. A known uploader do that (Tal...) in the sister site and it should be a new rule for everyone.

 

Same here. I'd like to know, please.

 

Yes please, @BEAT16 !

 

I agree with this in the fact that there shouldn't be any mirror restrictions at all. I fail to fathom why an uploader would want access to their stuff limited to the two lamest and slowest "FFS's" ("free"... that's a laugh) other than monetary kickbacks being served up for doing so... There was a debate a while back as to what was the better demark point for AZ and it just seemed to stay with the slowest and the lamest - UNLESS however one is willing to pay for warez which goes against what the scene was/is all about in the first place. Speed, privacy, and anonymity should be the concerns with regard to demark points for scene releases and the two incumbent ones fall insanely short in all three categories give or take...

To quote our beloved R2R witches -

"It's getting worse and worse every day. Now every single works are ripped
and repacked without credit and get uploaded by money makers. If forum
owners don't take any actions to those people against our policies, we regard
it as they are supporting $$$ business $$$ warez which we hate.

We haven't changed our attitude since the beginning.
"DO NOT MAKE MONEY WITH OUR RELEASES" Let's see what will happen in the months."

 

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how can it even be traced / stopped? bad actors will just download, and upload to whatever blog or site they host on.

 

As far as I am concerned included with the "bad actors" are these so-called "free-file-service" POS's. They offer you a tidbit of "DL for free" at some lame irritatingly slow speed while they push the payment scheme and anti-privacy by demanding payment for scene releases and requirements to "login" so that records can be kept. Many of these will not even allow VPN access, or will attempt push you to "disable" vpn's in order to log your IP, time, and date for record keeping. They are making money off of scene releases - remind me again how this is any different from the "bad actors"??? There are file repositories that don't operate that way, but they aren't being used on AZ except for when good folks generously give a mirror to a decent site every once in a great while...

 

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It could be argued that voting, comments, suggestions, opinions, and criticisms cannot influence the way AZ operates. AZ offers us free services, but it incurs its own costs and merits some form of reward for its efforts. They handle this in their own manner, without imposing burdens on users, yet also without granting them any particular democratic rights.