Hide My Ass! (FEEDBACK needed, please!)

This company claims that we can do the same as we always do but now they can't find you. Sounds interesting as an usenet alternative but all is maybe bullshit?

Anyway have a look @ their page and if people use(d) it feedback would be awesome!

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This looks interesting Dirk ..worth looking into anyway, right?
How does someone know for sure if it bullshit or not, I wonder?

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Not sure how it works or if it'll help the forum , i'll leave that to the techies/Admin to decide if it's a good idea or not.

VPN is a tunnel from computer to computer, your assuming a dedicated server will be used to store the files........where would that be exactly? What kind of bandwidth will it have? How much storage capacity? If this isn't the intent, then VPN is completely useless for what is needed.

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Not sure how it works or if it'll help the forum , i'll leave that to the techies/Admin to decide if it's a good idea or not.

Redirectors only work if you have SOMEWHERE ELSE to go......in this case, if the hot links were sending people out to other sites to "download" whatever they are looking for. Again, this could be a file locker or someone's FTP, I don't think anyone here is going to start up their own FTP to store files, much less start using the filesonics of the world again with all that is going on......I don't see how a redirector is going to help in this instance.

Shoot me down in flames why don't ya

Not shooting you down, I've given you the reason why it won't work. Don't take it personally, everyone wants to move forward, unfortunately your method won't work...nothing more.

Hey Kitt, you are being very blunt at the moment, it certainly seems that way with some of your replies. I hope everything is ok?

Not trying to be, I am happy people are trying to come in with ideas, but I'm just explaining why it doesn't work. I've spoken with some of the best people in IT and also with people in the know on how to handle this. What I'm hearing from people is they want things to be "the old way" because they don't want to learn or do something new. Things will never be the old way and people either need to get on board that things have to be done differently or just find other ways to get what they want/need. If people want things the old way then it will be without me because I'm not going to risk my house, my property, and all who depend on me for something silly like "downloading". I'm frustrated, and tired of the whining, I was going to respond to him a second time because I am grateful that at least he trying, so don't think that I'm trying to pounce on anyone, I'm not......just frustrating is all.

Hey that's fine I think everyone (hopefully everyone) understands that it's all a bit shit right now.

Our natural instinct as humans is always to look for the easiest way of doing things anyway, those that can't be bothered with a little extra effort will disappear.

Maybe things will be very different for a very long time. We were doing things that were technically illegal anyway.

I have a problem with using Usent as the main laptop I use will not allow me to use it and also I have such a poor downlaod speed where I live, (too far from the exchange they tell me?) that files take so long to downlaod that I cannot go for large ones like Willy has put out there. (all sounds a little rude)

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense...

I really didn't need an explanation on why it wouldn't work in a manner that made me feel i was a piece of shit for even suggesting something, thats all (I did state i wasn't sure how it worked)

Well you got the explanation anyway......and as I said, it wasn't to make you feel like shit.......so my apologies.

This thread is probably worth reading. 15 - 16 pages long. Much of it redundant, however it does give an indication of how things have changed and what the future might be if one of your favorite places has a URL that ends with .com and you have anything to do with sharing.

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Post numbers 86 /87 might be of interest to folks from the UK.

Well now, isn't that interesting......hence the cause for all the concern. I'll talk with my IT folks on Tuesday to ask about what they think of this......very interesting indeed.

Very interesting indeed. Read all replies and more & more we have ALL to realize that the ol' days of music enjoyment as we know it are OVER.

Thanks for pointing out the .com story, I never realized that before.

More places I followed are gone or closed themselves, if we want to continue the forum we need to adapt usenet and maybe other ways (if possible).

We need to find out who is willing to go with us that way or the future of the forum looks very grimm.

I'm all in the usenet route, and willing to help, we need others or else we'll have nothing......

I didn't try usenet yet but you can count me in ... LOL !

I have not looked very far into it yet myself ~ I have been occupied with other issues as of late, but would like to give you my support as well ..

This forum always has my support. I have not been able to load or use Usenet yet but will get there soon!