Life after MegaUpload

It seems that US authorities started a real war against Internet freedom and try to get into their claws everything from “online world”. SOPA/PIPA discussions were just the first sign of this war. Closing of one the biggest file-sharing services MegaUpload was totally non-expectable event. All the company’s bills were seized. Its founder Kim Schmitz together with two other execs was arrested. Large amount of luxury property is going to be seized too. Taking into consideration that MegaUpload has worldwide bills for $175 million, US government got a nice compensation for inhibition of SOPA/PIPA acts.

Closing of MegaUpload has opened up important issues as for regular Internet users so as for the owners of the other file-sharing services. The latter should now somehow care about their companies, so that they do not repeat MegaUpload’s case; owners will also work and think on which service can take place of MegaUpload, because one place in the niche of file-sharing giants is free now. Users should now think where to store files, where to find necessary ones and how to make money online, being sure that affiliate program in which you are participating will not be closed tomorrow.

Speaking about online money makers (this is what I’m keen on mostly) I feel really sorry for them. MegaUpload offered rather high payoffs and it is the second affiliate program with possibility to make good money online which is closed in the last half of a year (first was Wupload’s, but service decided to close it up itself, without any pressure). So, users should think now about the services which offer enough money to earn and will not be closed in the nearest future. Taking into consideration that SOPA/PIPA or similar acts could be legitimated soon, users can choose either file-sharing giants with more-or-less positive giants such as Depositfiles or Rapidshare, or middle-rating services as FileTram or Uploadstation.

This is just my personal, but, to my mind, middle-rating services are those which could be your golden share. Why? They do not get enormous income, so their bank accounts are not so attractive to authorities. They work much on their reputation and try to satisfy all users’ demands. They often offer very high rates for their affiliates as, for example, FileTram does. So, those middle-rating services could easily take empty MegaUpload’s place. But SOPA is still a sharp question. So, everybody on Internet should look up for ways how to resist it.

Stay in good mood,
Norman

GoDaddy vs SOPA and wishes for 2012!

It seems that it’s a topic of the last days - does GoDaddy support SOPA or not? Yesterday it was stated that GoDaddy officially removed from the House’s list of SOPA supporters. And even more…

GoDaddy is a company which manages over 45 million names and its support of such contradictory act made a real fuss among Internet services. I’ve already written about that. Now GoDaddy is out. So, what? Is this an end of SOPA activity? Totally, not. VISA, ESPN left in that list.

GoDaddy refused to support SOPA just a week ago and now even opposes it. But how does it happen? Simply, domains started transferring out and GoDaddy understood how much they can loose. So, this company stays on radically opposite positions now.

Such changeable opinions of GoDaddy could be a good lesson for other companies who are still in that list. Either they cooperate with Internet community or they will be banned, ignored and as a result will loose their incomes. This is also a good result for those companies which are fighting against SOPA – if you’re active, you can reach something in your life.

As it’s the last post of this year, I think it can be as an inspiration for the next one (irrespectively of the Mayan Calendar prophecy). Hope, 2012 will be more successful than 2011, especially in working with online affiliate programs.

See you in 2012,
Norman

SOPA - death for profitable online money making?!

Recently, it was that crazy American Censorship Day and so many people wrote about SOPA since then, so that I decided to look how it will influence online money making. What will it bring to Internet community at all?

So, what is SOPA?

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. Everything started as US musicians and film makers started arguing that government should defend their intellectual property. However, this Act is harmful for all Internet industry and such Internet giants as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and many others cooperate against this it.

If SOPA (together with its “fellow” Protect-IP Act) get power, search engines, Internet providing companies or regular websites, but which have partly relationship to sources with infringing content stop working at all. Internet providing companies have a right to block whole domains; because of some of their content have content which infringes copyright. It doesn’t matter that site contains much other legitimate and important stuff.

Internet companies say that such strict measures will hardly stuck all innovations. This will cause strong decrease in online money making as much of it is combined with media and entertainment files. All great file-sharing websites as Rapidshare, FileSonic, 4shared and others will be totally banned. This sorrow destiny will be scenario for development even of such influential search engines as Google and Yahoo and of less famous, but not less useful as FileTram.

Finally, making money with file-sharing will be totally impossible, and all of you understand why. What should we do?
All who are active online, who work and have rest here should cooperate and stay for our game rules, to which we are used to. Personally I understand that film makers and musicians need to have money from their work, but not with the price of Internet setback.