Dropbox…has anyone tried this alternative to the dicey FileHosts we use now?

The reviews are pretty good on them, limited to 2GB for free users however.

Any experience with them is welcome.

Not wrong forum, wrong thread, perhaps… suggestions like these are always welcome…

I think Forum is correct isn’t? the forum is divided into sub-forums and within those subs reside individual threads.

I don’t know I am new to this whole thing I am just glad to find this site.

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Forum – Downloads – Film, Television and Classical Music Download Links – Message for uploaders (Mirror Linking, Title Format, File Format etc)

I was referring to this thread. Great to have this info in a stickie

Edit: And whaddaya mean? New? Been far more active than me…

…dropbox seems to work ok (talking as downloader), but if I am not mixing this up this is the host with the many many ads??
if i remember this correctly…

you had skip and skip and skip and wait and wait…? 🙁

Not really an experience, but…from May, someone offered a Dropbox link for Danny Elfman’s Dark Shadows.

If I were you I’d get that off Dropbox… A sure way to get your account shut down…

rapidshare is good again since they have lifted the 30K/s cap.

maybe but people will still bitch because they have to wait between downloads. oh the atrocity.

Rapidshare have simply moved to another, more insidious method of chasing away the pirates. Starting in two weeks, files will only be downloadable a limited number of times per day; 1GB of outbound transfers (ie, if you upload a 100mb file, ten people can download it then it’s "sorry, try again tomorrow") for files uploaded by free users, 30GB for files uploaded by premium users. This will mean any popular Rapidshare link will automatically die within minutes. It’s been a long run with RS, but all good things come to an end.

If anybody has any RS links they’re been sitting on, I’d advise them to download them NOW while they still can.

Dropbox is not a viable solution to these issues. Storage space is limited (unless you pay for more; and I’m sure I don’t need to spell out the stupidity of offering illegal content from an account tied to your bank account) and the service is not geared for sharing.

Use Dropbox if you want to transfer something small to five or ten people; that’s what it’s for. Anything else… you’ll get your account closed (and all your data deleted) in no time at all.

Additionally, Dropbox is a really, really great service. If it starts getting raped by pirates, it will get wrecked for those of us who use it for legitimate means. Please leave Dropbox alone, folks.

it might be a bad thing for popular stuff, but this might make RS still useful for niche downloads: anime singles, old anime osts that may not be much sought after…that kind of stuff.

I don’t really care. I only use RS for personnal stuff anyway.

I use it occasionally to share stuff between a couple people. But it wouldn’t alert anyone because it would seem normal for only 3-5 people to download it.

But I do agree, having 200+ people download one of your files is a bit fishy.