So Many Filehosts- Aaaaarrrgghhh!!!

[Manneke_Pis]

Investing in the communications infrastructure for a country like New Zealand is as important as investment in defence for a country with a lot of enemies like the USA.

Absolutely.
And as mentioned previously, it is high time that we bring the New Zealanders into the 20th century and allow them to download porn at decent speeds.

Either that, or providing free Prozac to all its citizens. Their sexual frustration levels must be close to epic proportions. (They do manufacture Prozac in the U.S., don't they?)

[alexora]

Originally Posted by Manneke_Pis

Absolutely.
And as mentioned previously, it is high time that we bring the New Zealanders into the 20th century and allow them to download porn at decent speeds.

Either that, or providing free Prozac to all its citizens. Their sexual frustration levels must be close to epic proportions.

Well, historically, sheep herding has been one of the mainstays of the New Zealand economy, mainly geared towards the export of lamb and wool. Perhaps an additional domestic use can be found for these sheep?

Originally Posted by alexora

Perhaps an additional domestic use can be found for these sheep?

I'm not touching that comment with a ten foot pole.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by Snackles

First I'd better outline my position - I'm a leecher, yes I download but don't upload and I just can't figure out how you uploaders can afford it. In my country New Zealand it costs NZ$80 for 80 gigabytes then NZ$2 per gig or throttlled back to dial up speed (add 20% for price in US $) and with 4 computer users in the house it doesn't take long for it to be used up. Couple that with speeds of 30/40 KBs if trying to download free versus approx 400KBs if I subscrbe to a filehost (plus continuity) you can see (I hope) my problem.

Originally Posted by alexora

Kiwis get a rough deal from the limited choices offered by their small number of ISPs.

It's so bad, that Netflix refuses to operate their service over there.

Since there is little competition, the only solution is to legislate. I suggest you write to your MP and lobby him or her to bring up the matter in Parliament House. The must surely be many others that feel this situation is unacceptable since affordable internet access is now considered a basic human right.

Kim Dotcom has a plan:

Kim Dotcom: fund free NZ internet by suing
Hollywood and US government

Megaupload founder proposes free New Zealand broadband paid for by lawsuits over 'unlawful' destruction of his business

Kim Dotcom, the flamboyant German-born internet entrepreneur facing extradition to the US for alleged piracy, has put forward a plan to give all householders in his new home of New Zealand free broadband access, financed by suing Hollywood studios and the American government.

The 38-year-old, better known to his mother as Kim Schmitz, made a fortune reputed to exceed £100m with his hugely popular Megaupload file storage site, which US prosecutors allege was involved in the distribution of copyright-protected films, music and other material.

Originally based in Hong Kong, Dotcom has had New Zealand residency for two years. In January this year dozens of police raided his mansion in Auckland and other addresses on behalf of the FBI. Six months later New Zealand's high court ruled that the operation was illegal, casting doubt on the 6ft 6in entrepreneur's extradition. Dotcom has been on bail since February.

Dotcom nonetheless faces an extradition hearing in March, and has engaged in a concerted campaign to court public opinion in his adopted country. The latest salvo involves resurrecting a planned second fibre optic web cable across the Pacific to the US, which would have doubled New Zealand's available internet bandwidth. A New Zealand company, Pacific Fibre, hoped to build the £200m link but announced in August it could not secure the funding.

Dotcom's proposal is to supply broadband free to domestic customers, charging only businesses and government users, the New Zealand Herald reported. His share of the capital would be provided by lawsuits against the US government and film studios for their "unlawful and political destruction" of his business, he said.

The plan would be key to New Zealand's future prosperity, Dotcom said: "You have clean and cheap energy here. Power is becoming the biggest cost factor for data centres around the world. With its own cable, cheap power and connectivity, New Zealand could attract foreign internet business. Unfortunately, the current government wants to invest into more tarmac roads. In 10 to 15 years most people will work and shop from home. You don't need tarmac, you need fibre!"

Despite the seemingly unlikely funding model, Dotcom's plan has received at least some support. "If anyone can put together a deal like this, then it would be Kim Dotcom," said Paul Brislen of the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand.

Clare Curran, the MP who covers communications and IT for the opposition Labour party, said Dotcom was right in raising the idea of a second cable: "The sentiment is right. Kiwi businesses, particularly in the technology sector, have been calling for a second cable for some time now. Their concerns need to be taken seriously."

Dotcom is busy with a series of projects, including plans for a successor to Megaupload designed to sidestep the US laws under which he is being prosecuted.

Source

[When in Rome]

Don't think it's a coincidence links from the required host (e.g. Rapidshare) die 1 day after posting, now is it?

If you look closely at the posting pattern of certain users at the PATM HD section, you'll know what I mean.

[carbon8]

Originally Posted by When in Rome

Don't think it's a coincidence links from the required host (e.g. Rapidshare) die 1 day after posting, now is it?

If you look closely at the posting pattern of certain users at the PATM HD section, you'll know what I mean.

nice observation but you are overestimating the competence of the PATM mods. Those guys are so busy with their fucking ID thread and bashing ID requesters that they don't have the time to take care about those who circumvent permanently the rules. I mean it makes much more fun to write in bold red letters that the dummy has again forgotten the numbering of his 2 pictures or that a link instead of a thumb is attacking the integrity of the forum.

A kid can click on a one day old RS link and see why if it was deleted (message: file not found) or abused (message: file was marked as illegal). But if you are busy with babe IDs then you don't have the time for such a check or to find the pattern of repeated offenders.
[/irony] or was it [/sarcasm]



I am really missing a bad-ass mod like antuan5 who had the balls to kick out those fuckers. I hope he returns one day.

[Menaka]

I read following posts few weeks back, which probably have answers for initial questions. And yes, I'm using it. It's way more cheaper and safer than having a premium account at a file host.
http://tjosm.com/rapidleech-hosting-premium-plugins/

I also have limited bandwidth. It's 25GB/mo. So i always get a chance to verfy quality of video before downloading to my PC. I can unrar file before downloading. So i'm safe from password protected files. I can create screencaps online. So i'm safe from fake file info.

[DigNap15]

Yes Broadband ADSL in NZ sucks.
It seems to be dear compared to the rest of the world
And we have annoying Data caps.
And yes, unfortunatly we are a small market a long way from the rest of the world.
We badly need a second fibre cable into NZ.
Kim Dot com says he wants to try, but he has no show.

[iLikeBigButtz]

Originally Posted by When in Rome

Don't think it's a coincidence links from the required host (e.g. Rapidshare) die 1 day after posting, now is it?

If you look closely at the posting pattern of certain users at the PATM HD section, you'll know what I mean.

Why so cynical?

Next thing you know, you'll be implying that there are uploaders in PATM providing single links for the cash paying file host, while splitting the mirror links into 4 - 5 parts for the non-paying file host. It's almost as if they would prefer you to download the former rather than the latter.

[midnight]

plz restore my opinion in public

we have DEMOCRACY and everyone is free to express his opinion as carbon expressed (+agreed) above.

haven't wrote something identical just that some old-past mods were more accurate & applied the penalties. is that so bad to accept it ????

and if u keep ignoring reports what about when an agent from a paysite reports these spammer(s) that those wrote his paysite name over here??

will you still ignoring ??

now you remove personal opinion(s)

it is a matter of priorities....but seems ID thread is more high-priority to the whole problem already mentioned above by others too...... (in hd section)

i missed the old mod team (as carbon stated above) since they applied the penalties more efficiently and effectively.

you may alter opinions

you may remove posts - opinions

you may do whatever

but everyone has his own opinion to write in public since no-names (or no-usernames) have been pointed out to yesterday's posts