Official Site News #2 - The Rapidshare Problem
As many of you may have noticed we are, at the moment, being targeted (or so it appears) and have very little working links as they seems to go dead within a few days. Either this means that rapidshare is cracking down on us, which is not that likley, or there is someone out there who is reporting our links on purpose…
…now I am quite stuck on this issue as many of the options I have in front of me could limit OneDDL’s userbase and I don’t want to have to do that. So to be fair I am not going to make the decision myself this time, I am leaving it all up to you!
Over the next 7 days I will be running a poll with suggestions for how we can combat this problem…I would greatly appreciate it if you could vote in the poll so we can decide what to do. You do not have to be registered and voting takes just a second. Alternativly you can visit this thread in the forum and put forward some of your own ideas. I will review this thread, as well as the poll after the 7 days are up…susequently I will be closing the thread along with the poll after 7 days.
We value your input and your help in making this decision would be greatly apprciated…
okone (Site Admin)
(14 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)
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Double Compression process and password might help preventing links going dead.
I mean, first compressing the file, and then adding a second 0% compression of the file, but forcing the requirement of a password to see what’s inside.
Not fair links going down, i still go to cinema if the movie is worthy, otherwise is a waste of money. If the don’t want us “previewing their movies” then they seriously need to work on release dates, and particulary digital release dates. Kinda like iTunes (which by the way doesn’t works for my country).
I’m in a country where sometimes takes a whole year for a movie to get here. That sucks.
I think you guys, specially okone, are doing a great job. And indeed saving us for wasting our movie by not going to the cinema to watch a shitty movie. Just going there to watch the ones that really matter.
Anyhow, hope this works.
Cheers!
Pisto.
I to come from a Country where movie release dates are staggered to say the Least. I will by multiple DVD’s from the internet at a time just to keep myself occupied. It sucks that you guys have been flagged and I hope we can come to reasonable and just fix for this annoying problem.
Regards
Criss
Double zip the files like Pisto said with an included password, don’t make the file name RAMBO2007RIP it’s going to be flagged right away obv oneddl in the title is also a bit of a give away, come up with a new way to control the file names.
Do you want to know why your links go down?
I’ve known for a while now..
The MAIN reason links go sour is cause you upload the ORIGINAL scene release with it’s FULL NAME. That’s a bad idea! ™
Rapidshare doesn’t have to target this site. They get a complaint about some brand new scene release hosted on their servers and when they dig it out and deletes it they delete it on a CRC hash level. doing that they doesn’t just kill one set of links, they can kill 100’s of links in one go cause there is so damn many people uploading the original unmodified release.
(Really, how do you think RS can host so many files? whenever someone uploads a file to RS, RS hashes the file and checks if they already have it on disk. if they have the “new” file is discarded and the user is given a link to the file RS already have. hashing a file can be a very computer intensive task but it is well worth it as the payoff is saved space. RS saves big bucks on doing this)
The best way to get away with scene releases on RS is to modify the packages. Change the CRC’s of the release by adding a recovery archive, insert a .nfo or something and add a password to the package. This makes the file unique. (note, it’s not really necessarily to password protect the file. recovery record/txt file inside the archive is enough)
Also, DO NOT upload the files using the original release name. CHANGE IT!
Lets use the Cloverfield movie as an example.
You uploaded the scene released movie as “OneDDL.com-ck-cloverfield.part1.rar”
Now, if someone steals your links and posts them somewhere else, everyone, including the MPAA can just look at the link and realize it is the Cloverfield movie. This is bad. This is how you get noticed. and most likely they was the scene packs which got deleted when RS did a CRC deletion.
Now, if you re-pack and re-upload this movie as.. lets say “Green thing” or “a really crappy day” or something in the lines of that no one outside this website is going to realize what the hell those links are and most ousiders are not even going to bother downloading it except for the one’s that come to this site. They will know what it is but ousiders won’t and when RS does a CRC wipe your modified packs stays off the radar and lives on.
THIS is the way to keep files on the net for a very long time.
Trust me, I have several popular movies in my rapidshare account and not a single one has been taken down yet and they are even listed in rapidsearch-engines!
I think that’s bullshit if some one whom snitchin. And fuck the F.E.D.s when they get me, I’ma laff at dem bitchs and say “At least it not dope.” Who eva this hata is that’s snitchin “Eat a Pig dick a die.”
Puck Bitch
Illinois Bootleg Capone
i’m agree with most ideas given here, change the name and try not to pun the whole movie title and the website infront of it
ragnarok has hit most of it on the head. So there’s not much else for me to say. However, if the mpaa monitors are directly monitoring this website (its a great site and very popular, so they probably are), then user login might be necessary to keep them out. And to screen the users have us upload somthing small and illegal to upload, say a music album. Its illegal for those SOB’s to do that so that should keep them out. But then that’s just me. In my country, this is the ONLY way we get movies AT ALL! Oneddl keeps us sane in this mad world.
use
http://www.link-protector.com/
or something
or start using megashares
faster and cheaper anyway
im a RS premium user, and iv been having these sort of probs while trying to d/l files. so i got in contact with RS support. and they replied to my mail saying that they’v enforced a few new policies.
1) Premium users cannot share accounts (1 user per account)
2) Any single user MUST have the same subnet, if they are different, the RS cookie will not let the user download (so, for ppl who have long queues to download, this is gonna be a problem if you have non-static IP or if ur using more than one connection through a load balancer)
after meddling with this abt a whole day, iv found out that the GOOD folks at RS have not actually perfected this new method, hence all the links going dead. I was actually saying to my friend the other day that RS ppl got up one day and asked their milk man to set these new policies in place. if you ask me RS ppl are RAPIDLY becoming a bunch of idiots :))
I dont see why they would want to change anything when rapidshare should be seeing more profit from people signing up cuz of sites like this one.
yeah.. dont put your website name at the RS link and dont put the Movie title name as the file name.
Dont worry. your site will be famous without putting your site name at the link.
“I dont see why they would want to change anything when rapidshare should be seeing more profit from people signing up cuz of sites like this one.”
they are making money but they still want to protect their business since they are bond with legal law… they know they making money 99% by all of this stuff.
I think its good to double compress with a password, change the name so its going to be hard to find and also use link protection. That’s the only thing that can be done.
I agree 100% with Ragnarok
I agree with Ragnarok completely. Add in an extra nfo file with your web info to every file to change the hash and also change the title.
I do not agree with the double compression and password rubbish, this will not help at all but it will piss me off.
A members only situation may have to be an option. I’m sure rlslog and similar sites are watched regularly, and RS links there go dead very quick. Likewise posts that refer to this site will send those same people killing links there to here.
it would be ALOT better using RSMONKEY because the only reasoni use 1 click is because theres no rar files to have to unzip
and if you post links in the forum, then people will just make accounts and steal the links and post them on different websites.
use RS MONKEY!
(upload the movies first, and when you have time, put them on RSMONKEY which will protect the links)
I’d do nothing … it is really unlikely that RS is deleting the links without someone reporting. Rapidshares earns it’s money with the millions of illegal downloads out there, so they would never do it on their own.
And whoever is reporting won’t do it forever. You should always keep up a mirror to switch to when the first one is down and go through it.