[alfredonm]

I use DDL for old stuff, really old stuff.

[borovnica]

@buggeer downloading movies and musics are illegal too, only if they are licenced in your country. Luckily for us new animes are not licenced at least for a year. Most of them never come to west market. So torrenting animes isn't illegal, if you can't buy them in your country. Also Japs don't care about NA or EU market, at least that is the impression I got.

[panther13]

Originally Posted by alfredonm

I use DDL for old stuff, really old stuff.

Not anymore~

[SPIM]

Updated list (for now) nicked from another site:

Status:

FilePost: Alive, Started suspending accounts with infringing material

Fileserve: Alive, closed affiliate program, banning uploaders en masse.

Filesonic: Dead. Closed affiliate program. Only uploaders can retrieve their files.

Hotfile: Alive

Mediafire: Alive

Megaupload: Dead, pending lawsuit from US federal government.

Oron: Alive

Rapidshare: Alive

Uploaded.to: Alive but blocking US traffic

WUpload: Alive, closed affiliate program before Megaupload fiasco citing financial reasons.

VideoBB
Closed affiliate program.

VideoZer
Closed affiliate program.

4shared
Deleting multiple files.

[Aara123]

Originally Posted by borovnica

@buggeer downloading movies and musics are illegal too, only if they are licenced in your country. Luckily for us new animes are not licenced at least for a year. Most of them never come to west market. So torrenting animes isn't illegal, if you can't buy them in your country. Also Japs don't care about NA or EU market, at least that is the impression I got.

Actually, a lot of anime nowadays gets simulcast, and all those simulcast anime are licensed series, i.e. it is illegal to download them.

[EternalRain]

Originally Posted by SPIM

Updated list (for now) nicked from another site:

Status:

FilePost: Alive, Started suspending accounts with infringing material

Fileserve: Alive, closed affiliate program, banning uploaders en masse.

Filesonic: Dead. Closed affiliate program. Only uploaders can retrieve their files.

Hotfile: Alive

Mediafire: Alive

Megaupload: Dead, pending lawsuit from US federal government.

Oron: Alive

Rapidshare: Alive

Uploaded.to: Alive but blocking US traffic

WUpload: Alive, closed affiliate program before Megaupload fiasco citing financial reasons.

VideoBB
Closed affiliate program.

VideoZer
Closed affiliate program.

4shared
Deleting multiple files.

UploadStation ftw?

[Zero_00]

this is honestly a little ironic last week I was talking to a friend of mine about the whole shit stick with bandai US branch and ofcourse me mentioning anything about physical media sets off his rant about the death of physical media and how virtual media will become the only way to watch anything then this happens. pffffffft bandai US may have died but because of sopa and pipa virtual media is dying not the other way around

[Ryder Blade]

This year is making me start to wonder if "1984"/2081 is coming. I should probably just start downloading all the anime that I can before I have to start torrenting. ;-;

[borovnica]

@Aara123 not in my country. I can't watch anything on Crunchy or Funimation. And no one is showing animes on TV. So torrenting or downloading them is only option. If you can tell who else is doing simulcast PM I would like to try and watch there. O yea, but what about new animes, they arent avaible at all on crunchy. Like I said they aren't licensed, so it's not illegal. You can ban something for which you don't have licence.

[Koga]

Originally Posted by EternalRain

UploadStation ftw?

owned by fileserve/filesonic will be next to shut down.

also hotfile is useless you might as well kill that on your list. they delete accounts after only 3 or 4 dmca notices. i tried 3 times when i was uploading on the front page and they only lasted a day or 2.