Vancouvers default setting remembered itself today. The trees are dripping with water and the roads are slick wet. Time for a change of clothes, time for layers of silk under cotton. Rent is to be fetched today, my paycheques require a download into numbers. One zero reality. I wonder what everyone else is doing today. You, the people who read this, I wonder where you are, who you are. Give me your names? Where you live, what you do? I woke curious, wanting to place context to words, trying to think in people. I want to know my friends.
Saturday, I’ve been told, there is an accordian klesmer concert at the W.I.S.E. Hall. Considering that Micheal Green has me half convinced that I want to move to Calgary to see his upcoming Ska-Klesmer musical, I might decide that this is my chance to get my fix. Windchill factor VS walking four blocks. Swing dancing, again, will wait, another little wallflower event.
Today’s Bad news: YOUSENDIT is cracking down on file-sharing.
“YSI are now following those sites from which people access to their sites the most!”
Meaning, if you click on a link to YSI which you found on someone else’s LJ they can track you back!
This has been posted as a reply in a forum where someone had upped a file on YSI:
This file has been removed from the YouSendIt servers due to a violation of our terms of service agreement (please see below for further details).
Our service is intended for use solely as a means to share files between a small amount of people. Acceptable usage might include:
- Uploading a photograph album to be shared amongst friends of family
- Moving an important file or document between work and home computers
- Sharing work with classmates or colleagues.
It is not acceptable to share links to files between large amounts of people on internet forums or message boards as this puts excessive load on our file servers and uses up bandwidth. It is with this in mind that we have decided to actively prevent our service being used in this way and take action to make people aware of what is and is not allowed. YouSendIt have decided to start pursuing the websites with the highest instances of abuse of our service.
The rest of the details can be found at YouSendIt ToS
Some people are thinking about starting a Gmail account to download to and from. I’m not sure if that will work.
Another suggestion was to use http://anonym.to/
English version: to make a long story short: anonym.to is a free and easy way to block the referrer when a visitor clicks a link on your homepage. It works with every browser as you do only have to add a http://anonym.to/? in front of every outgoing http:// link. Use it as you want.
I’m trying YouShareIt, which is much like YouSendIt. The difference is they’ll keep the material online for 10 days or 100 downloads, whichever comes first. You’re limited to 50MB uploads, however, so you might need to breakdown larger zip files into smaller bites.