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Thursday, July 1, 2010

[SurroundSound] Re: New Rapidshare Plans

I definitely won't buy two or more services so I have to make a
decision. I'm not sure, still hesitating. As a downloader, ofc, I'm
looking into the availability. If it changes, I'll change too. RS has
been (was?) a basic point on the field of my interest and now I wonder
what will happen.

On júl. 1, 09:44, "Lokkerman" <phil.steep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> File factory have an offer on now
>
>   _____  
>
> From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Stephen Disney
> Sent: 01 July 2010 07:46
> To: surroundsound@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [SurroundSound] New Rapidshare Plans
>
> Seems to me a group effort could replenish the material, but I'm betting
> that won't be a popular idea with most preferring to use the hub.  I plan to
> look into my listserv idea tomorrow as well.  Also plan to rip some vinyls
> tomorrow....
> S
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:53 PM, MrMalice <MrMalic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My RS premium account expired yesterday. I will wait before renewing. The
> new pricing policy is unnecessarily convoluted, and I suspect I'd be getting
> less bang for my buck than I used to.
>
> Time to investigate filefactory...
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Lokkerman <phil.steep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Guys
> We need to discuss this one as it has seriously curtailed OD and perhaps we
> need to decide whether or not we ultimately move to deposit files or
> flefactory or whatever.
>
> This is what I discussed with OD today on the subject, so it is my take,
> please correct me where I am wrong:
>
> "RS's change is strangely geared away from individuals to large entities. I
> think if you also read it there is a licence disclaimer version which the
> file owner then takes the rap. Therefore I think the model is geared towards
> low volume/bandwidth downloads and not large volume/high bandwidth; which
> are placed in the realm of the corporate or large volume user. (My view is)
> It would make your blog unsustainable unless you post things and remove them
> cyclically.
> Oddly it also turns the focus away from the FLAC and back to MP3 because of
> the lower bandwidth.
>
> We will now see how it affects RS financially as I think many folk will not
> renew and shift to File factory et al.... - they are already claiming they
> now are the largest provider.
>
> A also think that if I were a business provider I would seriously look hard
> at a company that changes a fundamental service offering without
> consultation and with very little warning. The two services should have been
> run in parallel to phase the new service in and that way they could judge
> the performance of the new product."
>
> So please comments
>
> cheers
> Lokks
>
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