Hi, I am skylar_seo and I was curious about the recent happening of megaupload. The site is like most uploading sites so how do I know that if I join an affiliate program now, it won't be taken down by the fbi in 2 weeks?
That's kind of the risk you have to take. The best shot you can do is just go with an affiliate program with hosts not in the US. Though the guy who owned megaupload was not a US native, he was charged with several crimes and I also heard he was already on the hot seat with the US for various past offenses.
Where have you been latley? Megaupload is done and the higher up employee's are done. Check out this blog post i dug up for you. I can find a whole bunch more about megaupload. Why the feds smashed Megaupload
They will never shut down the piratebay hopefully. Its not a .com site or based in the US so i don't think the FBI have any power over it.
Turbobit is currently not accepting US users/affiliates, although you can work around that with a proxy server, as I have. Not sure if I am going to get paid, though, as I have used US information on my affiliate enrollment form. Extabit still works fine, accepting Paypal, although they are apparently in negotiations with them and may not be able to pay thru them for awhile. Yes, Russian place-of-business may help, but probably not if servers or other facilities are located elsewhere, including NZ and Hong Kong where MU had a presence. Hopefully, fileservers who focus mostly on porn and aggressively prohibit uploading of Hollywood movies will be less affected, although this puts them in potential hot water with Paypal, which is supposedly against porn. My impression is that there is a lot of wait-and-seeing going on right now, and as soon as the dust settles present paid filehosts will either adapt or new ones will evolve that will avoid the problems the earlier ones faced.
DonKino.com, MEGAVIDEO, putlocker, videobb, bitshare, videozer, sockshare, putlocker and sockshare... Try these for the free upload.
Oh well, you're gonna just have to take that chance. As long as you have backups for backups for your legit files there shouldn't be any problem whatsoever. It actually pretty much sucks, a lot of people were using Megaupload for legitimate files. No way of getting them back now unfortunately. I actually read somewhere that they went after Megaupload because they were gonna launch some new Megabox service or something like that. Just ahead of Christmas, MegaUpload started previewing MegaBox with 7digital, Gracenote, Rovi, and Amazon MP3 listed as partners. The beta-stage MegaBox was a combination locker, download store, and platform for do-it-yourself, emerging artists.
Hmm seems like even more filesharing sites are dropping off the radar since this whole Megaupload filesharing deal hit the light of day. Anyhow I stumbled upon some interesting rumors on some forum or blog, or something like that, don't recall exactly where. There was nothing much, only that the next big thing on filesharing will be some new technology from audials.com and that it's suppose to be a better alternative to megaupload and all them filesharing sites. That was pretty much it, didn't find anything else on this supposedly new audials filesharing technology. Might be just some worthless rumor but if it's true it should be worth looking into. Was wondering if you guys heard anything about this whole audials sharing thing?
I think it's not secure to join any file-sharing affiliate program now. It's better to wait for some time. Soon everything will get calm, and we'll be able to restart affiliate activities in file-sharing
Kim Dotcom released on bail http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/22/kim-dotcom-granted-bail-megaupload