As a side note, DivShare contacted me and said that they are working on updatable files, but it is taking them some time seeing as they have so many other features they have to complete as well as limited staff. I’m on the edge of my seat, though, because I would like to update one of the files on my site without having to get a new link. I’ll be patient, though.

They’re response time is unlike many other sites that I’ve dealt with. Normally my questions go unanswered but DivShare always sends back a nice personalized email…I continue to love them more and more.

I sure hope that they release the update files feature soon because it would be really awesome. Then I could create like a Firefox Portable build that I update a few times a week containing nightly builds.

As a side note, DivShare contacted me and said that they are working on updatable files, but it is taking them some time seeing as they have so many other features they have to complete as well as limited staff. I’m on the edge of my seat, though, because I would like to update one of the files on my site without having to get a new link. I’ll be patient, though.

[eggdisk.com] allows you to upload zip files and then have their server extract it for you. They had a snafu last week and lost all users files, but they gave me 8 GB of space and 50 GB of bandwidth for life to make up for it, so I wasn’t too upset about it. That does provide an example though of why no matter how good a file hosting service is, depending upon it for primary backup of something is madness.

Ahh, that’s the service I was thinking of! I also received that email where they explained the loss of data for more than 11,000 users. That was definitely a scary thing, and I’m still trying to figure out how they could have just lost all of the data. I could understand one hard drive worth, but that seemed like quite a bit.

There are a lot of things that can be shared that aren’t copyrighted. How about podcasts or presentations? If they let users embed the MP3 player into their own site or blog then I’m sure a lot of people would start using this for podcasts and such, because there is no file size limitation. So it doesn’t matter if you have a 2 minute podcast or a 2 hour one, because it won’t be harvesting your bandwidth to share it with the world.

Two days ago I uploaded a copyrighted mp3 to divshare to send as a link in an email to my mother. 3 minutes later I received an email informing me that it was against the T&C and had been removed.

So, these guys are on their game as far as that side of things is concerned. For now. As it gets bigger I imagine it would be harder to monitor.

How do they know if the MP3 is copyrighted? Any music from a purchased CD is copyrighted. So, if they are removing copyrights content then what do they expect people to stream/share?

So, these guys are on their game as far as that side of things is concerned. For now. As it gets bigger I imagine it would be harder to monitor.