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for some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents. (lemmy.ml)

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[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 23 hours ago

This has been a thing for years although it used to be sketchy blogs (and probably still is tbf in addition to this). Back in the days of rapid share, mega before Kim dotcom got busted, etc. some people just can’t figure out torrents or they live in a situation where torrents can’t be used (isp shaping, internet controlled by a 3rd party that blocks torrenting, etc) and usually http downloads are fine in those situations.

If you ever have to rely on this get jdownloader at least

[-] m4a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago

Wait, I thought Mega was relatively safe? What happened with Kim dotcom?

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 23 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Mega used to be called MegaUpload and it was just plain ol’ cloud storage. US media companies coordinated with the NZ government and apprehended Kim Dotcom in NZ and shut down MegaUpload. Dotcom had money and lots of lawyers, so he’s staved off being entirely destroyed and formed Mega, which is E2EE and so he cannot accept any liability because they cannot know what is being stored.

Check out this wild ass video from 2012: https://youtu.be/o0Wvn-9BXVc