who remembers when they had a vote a few years back on which dl service to use and uploaded and rapidgator came out as the ones to stick with? anyway the only prob i've had with ul was a credit card payment last year now i just get the 2 day plan every couple months an go ham on the weekend

 

I used to use UL never had a problem until they said premium was not available in my country anymore. USA.
Haven't had a problem with rapidgator yet.

 

Paying unlimited Premium is brave. And actually you are lucky. Just remember how many big file hosting sites have gone in the last decade. FileSonic comes to mind.

For those who are affraid of using their everyday-bank card, we are already in the era of fintech, depending on your country, you can find options (Revolut, Curve, Transferwise etc.) to pay with virtual, even disposable cards to protect your real account.

 

Yes, I've had basically two options for an unlimited duration buy. Uploaded and share-online and I've definetely chosen the correct one.

 

Using Revolut since last year, great stuff indeed.

 

Just wondering, why doesn't our sister site use torrents? It seems less error prone to me.

 

Uploaded.net is great and has never scammed me for YEARS. you are full of it

 

I don't want to run a computer with constant internet traffic (especially the narrower bandwidth for uploads), CPU usage etc. Nowadays' average motherboards are not made for server-like services.
And there are more concerns about security and reliability. I stopped using torrents more than 10 years ago after getting tired of a lot of unreliable sources, fake files.

I know that most sources on sister site come from torrent but at least the poster tend to check it first.

And look at the Kontakt library threads here on AS, most of the adding library issues come from users who got those libraries from incomplete, unreliable torrent sources.

 

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I what respect ? and compared to which other hoster's ?

 

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While OP's calling uploaded.net scam because of one problem is obviously exaggerated,
I can understand how he can be pissed off in such a situation.
There is no reason to call him dumb

Please, let's keep this thread into the rational part of things.

 

Sister site is prepared for torrents and you can find them in some few posts.
Any one can post them, including you as mirrors in post where mirrors are enabled.
Please, be the first to do so.

 

Not exactly. Great part of the material shared at sister site is P2P no torrent involved.

 

whatever happened to uploaded coupons? We used to give them away on here...?

 

the only problem i have had with uploaded was they extended my premium by a year but didnt want the money until i told them they were making me nervous and asked to please take it eventually after 6 weeks- i think they are probably in the home office and suffering like tghe rest of us
please stick with ul

 

I used some sevices like NeoDebrid and Cocoleech. NeoDebrid allows 1GB per day, while Cocoleech allows 5 files per day. Even thoug Cocoleech says it allows only 1GB per day, you can still continue downloading until 5 files are reached even if you are past the 1GB limit.
Still, this is not enough for larger Kontakt libraries. So what I did was use VPNs and kept changing my location.

But recently, they've started detecting VPNs and don't allow using them for free account. Have to find an alternative solution.

 

Are you sure about Reevown resetting their bandwidth hourly? AFAIK they reset it only daily, not hourly.

 

Same here I have had UPloaded for about 8 to 10 years now. Always renew and so far noo issues.

 

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Does your ISP give you fix IP connection? (I doubt because they don't want people to run servers on it) If your IP is not fixed, you can turn off and after 30 seconds on again the modem and you will get a new IP address. No need of VPN ...IMO.

 

Unfortunately, yes, it's fixed IP. I'm on a campus network.

 

Because the nature of using fileshares is making money to keep the site up.

Can't really make money on torrents in the same way. (they have ads but that doesn't make the money like they used to)

None of it is cheap or free. Hosting, Filestorage, bandwidth... it all costs a lot of money a month. So you have advertising and filehosting (preferably in countries that don't have stringent piracy rules) to get some of that back. A lot of the time even that doesn't cover things, so you hope you have a sugar daddy or donations (hah) to deal with the rest.

In the early days we dealt with long distance on phonelines. Some (more than some) would hack the phone systems, AT&T/Bell and Corporations company lines to get free long distance.

When the Internet appeared, we had people at Universities running sites out of dorms. We hacked public FTP's as dumps. IRC and DC++ became popular. USENET was good for a time, until organizations corrupted posts. Later, some would run personal servers out of the companies they worked for. Napster and Limewire came along, then torrents exploded on the scene.

People will do what they will. Files will get cracked no matter the size of the company. How excited you are about collecting or having certain digital goods (your filthy lucre a la Smaug's pile of gold) will depend on what you will do to obtain it.

 

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