Posts Tagged ‘Megaupload’
What Are File Transfer Services Doing With Your Data?
Sending files over the internet is a task that is spoiled for choice. No longer the domain of FTP and email accounts alone, there have emerged a wide range of options and technologies to get those bits and bytes from one end of the internet to the other. In recent years in particular, a handful of services have come to vie for the lead amongst an almost overwhelming selection of contenders. Much like “Google” went from a company name to a verb, the digital hordes are now making a household name out of Rapidshare, YouSendIt, Dropbox and Megaupload. It would appear that the popularity of each particular service is driven almost entirely out of established habits of certain communities, where an internet forum swapping DJ mixes might favour one service by virtue of precedent alone.
For example, Megaupload remains a popular choice despite not only the Flash animation advertising, but a Captcha password page and a countdown timer. There have been criticisms in the past that certain Megaupoad service add-ons contain elements of spyware, as well as a number of search sites that have emerged with the sole purpose of indexing the user files uploaded. The latter is an issue that has caught more than a few music producers off guard. As the creative arts are often the vanguard of file transfer services, countless artists have sent pre-releases, promo mixes and remix stems via Megaupload and Rapidshare without realising that their files are anything but invisible.
