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yesjack said:
If all file hosting sites (like filesonic) are close, will hosting industry be affected?
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no, becuase you can do the same thing on any server/hosting plan, by creating a folder and password protecting the folder and place any images in the folder and then just pass the folder login details to whoever you want to share the files/images with
 
File hosting is not going to die anytime soon. All that's dying is the ability to profit from knowingly hosting copyrighted files, and/or sharing such files.
 
ldcdc said:
File hosting is not going to die anytime soon. All that's dying is the ability to profit from knowingly hosting copyrighted files, and/or sharing such files.
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That may be true but that is also the main source of revenue for these file hosting sites.
I would be willing to bet that Filesonic revenues have plummeted in the last year.
 
This will be an interesting development. If anything it could put an end to publicly allowing uploads to be downloaded. Comes down to the entertainment industry wanting too much control.
 
That may be true but that is also the main source of revenue for these file hosting sites.
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A business model is dying (and so are most of the businesses that relied upon it), but alternatives are out there (Dropbox, Ubuntu One and the like) and maybe something totally new will appear and take the lead.

I'm not saying there's not going to be any change, I'm just saying file hosting, in one form or another, will survive. Will it still be mainly used for quasi-illegal purposes? Probably. After all, even a big, respectable site like Youtube has huge amounts of content that, at the end of the day, is at least in a gray area.

Does all that affect the website hosting industry? Probably not directly, but if the whole issue leads to some laws changing, it could affect the whole Internet.
 
Doubt it - If anything you might see more people buying hosting to host files, obviously not so much illegal stuff but what is legit.

I think it could work wonders for the hosting industry.
 
File hosting isn't going anywhere. In this day and age the world is a very small place, the internet makes it possilbe to collaberate and share files very quickly to almost anywhere in the world.
I am of course speaking about legal file sharing here and not about the sharing of copyrighted material which is a whole different kettle of fish
 
I think the Internet, file sharing and hosting will evolve and survive whatever obstacles or regulatory curves we throw at them. Look at the most recent ruling on Megaupload where the judge ruled authorities overstepped their boundaries in their search warrant, including the cloned drives sent to the FBI.
 
obstacles are always being thrown at the hosting industy and we always overcome them.
look at this receny New EU cookies law. their is no way this can actually be policed

Does this affect you?

It will affect almost every website that operates within the EU. This is not restricted to EU-only domains such as .fr, .uk and .de but any website that operates in the EU. Even if your website is based in the US, on a .com domain, but offers services to people in Europe your website must comply with this law.
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so in other words every website must comply, so whos going to check every single website, every minute of every day.
 
I can think of a few other file hosting services.

* Google Drive
* DropBox
* BoxNet

Just to name a few.

Otherwise you can simply look for a webhost that wuits your file hosting needs.
 
HogWildMark said:
I can think of a few other file hosting services.

* Google Drive
* DropBox
* BoxNet

Just to name a few.

Otherwise you can simply look for a webhost that wuits your file hosting needs.
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I think it's possible to find hosting companies which provide file hosting with no issues.
 
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