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17 Sep 2015, 19:07Recently I've seen some posts talking about keeping this forum healthy while Emil is away, and sure, that involves not only everyone stepping up to stay active, but people had also mentioned the crazy copyright crackdown that ravages the web. There's an effective and simple way to reduce this problem, which I don't see nearly as often as I'd like to; which would be to shorten the titles of your .RARs and .ZIPs for example, I upload say, Loudness' Thunder in the East, but rather than titling it as that, I'm going to abbreviate it to LTITE, or LDNSTHNDR, or something along those lines so that it's much harder to uncover, because, if you just name your RARs and ZIPs the actual album names, they will be taken down eventually 100% guaranteed, which is part of our current problem, just look at Jasonkont's uploads for example; probably 75% of his files have been taken down from the various sites he used.
Another tip I would have is using file sharing services that don't expire, for example my site of choice is 4shared. I've uploaded somewhere around 30-ish albums to the forum so far in my time here, and I've never had anything taken down, despite over 3 years of uploading stuff, partly thanks to 4shared not making your files expire, but also from abbreviating it's name.
These are little things we can do to not only protect our files, but also reduce the number of dead links by a huge margin from this point forward.
Some file sharing sites that are very good if you follow the above include:
*Mediafire (Yes, this site used to be way better, but it's still very good if you just encode your album names, I regularly see files over 6 years old that have their names hidden from the copyright detection.)
*4shared (Smooth with a good bit of storage, you might want a fake social media account so there's no access to any info about you.)
*Sendspace (From what I've seen it's fairly reliable)
*Mega.co.nz (Probably the smoothest modern service, I might be switching to it soon, actually.)
Avoid using:
*Rapidshare (They recently went on a purge where they removed everything everyone had ever uploaded, including many things from this forum, and there's no reason why they wouldn't do it again if they felt like it.)
Another tip I would have is using file sharing services that don't expire, for example my site of choice is 4shared. I've uploaded somewhere around 30-ish albums to the forum so far in my time here, and I've never had anything taken down, despite over 3 years of uploading stuff, partly thanks to 4shared not making your files expire, but also from abbreviating it's name.
These are little things we can do to not only protect our files, but also reduce the number of dead links by a huge margin from this point forward.
Some file sharing sites that are very good if you follow the above include:
*Mediafire (Yes, this site used to be way better, but it's still very good if you just encode your album names, I regularly see files over 6 years old that have their names hidden from the copyright detection.)
*4shared (Smooth with a good bit of storage, you might want a fake social media account so there's no access to any info about you.)
*Sendspace (From what I've seen it's fairly reliable)
*Mega.co.nz (Probably the smoothest modern service, I might be switching to it soon, actually.)
Avoid using:
*Rapidshare (They recently went on a purge where they removed everything everyone had ever uploaded, including many things from this forum, and there's no reason why they wouldn't do it again if they felt like it.)
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