What's the deal with this site?

[Stonecutter]

Can't possibly be legit, and the few files I tried were really ****ty quality, but still, how is it even operational?

http://www.mp3-center.org/mp3/a

[Jonbo298]

Wow I was even getting popups through Firefox

[MrCoffee]

I hosted a site it was alt-tab.be and I had a 200gig harddrive FULL people could access and download videos and music, it was closed registration but I had like 50 users who chatted lots and used it for large file uploads....then two weeks later my isp calls says im at 324% of my bandwidth and I need to cut back or they are cutting me. The reason they are lettng me get away with so much is that the internet in my area of town is outdated and they are ordering parts or somehting :P

btw. I will try and find you the letter I got from this snitch internet company that went around finding illegal sites and such and reporting them

[MuGen]

Bill Clinton's internet privacy act disallows anyone from entering a site with malicious intent or the intent of pursuance... They cannot enter the site with the means of reporting it. However, if they know what you are doing they can and will report you.

324% of bandwidth?? Geez... Bandwidth is expensive you need to watch it. I had an anime site that was home to about 15,000 unique visitors a day, and I only had 100GB of bandwidth on my server. Come to realize I had went over about 2gigs by the end of the month and they charged me $400 for the extra bandwidth...

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by MuGen

Bill Clinton's internet privacy act disallows anyone from entering a site with malicious intent or the intent of pursuance... They cannot enter the site with the means of reporting it. However, if they know what you are doing they can and will report you.

324% of bandwidth?? Geez... Bandwidth is expensive you need to watch it. I had an anime site that was home to about 15,000 unique visitors a day, and I only had 100GB of bandwidth on my server. Come to realize I had went over about 2gigs by the end of the month and they charged me $400 for the extra bandwidth...

It's nothing compared to the Gamingforce Audio debacle, which totalled 10 terabytes and cost thousands of dollars.

Speaking of which, there's another video game audio site I won't mention, and they have pretty much every album of game music, available as MP3s. I wonder how they keep running if Gamingforce Audio only had a handful of albums. However, they do have a lot of ads, but no popups or crap. Makes me wonder.

[MrCoffee]

its probably a front, like theres a lan cafe tht I use to go to all the time int he back they had very very dark tinted black windows, and people in suits would come and go it was kind of odd :P

[MuGen]

Well you can buy bandwidth from Cogent. I'd say a full on multimedia website with movies and large file downloads would need at least 20TB's of bandwidth which would cost somewhere around $500-$1000 a month. But the people who can afford those are usually making large money from that website. Example... porn sites/legal mp3 download sites.

My company spends about $200/month on a dedicated server with 3TB's a month of bandwidth.

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by MuGen

Bill Clinton's internet privacy act disallows anyone from entering a site with malicious intent or the intent of pursuance... They cannot enter the site with the means of reporting it. However, if they know what you are doing they can and will report you.

Actually, the law you are referring to doesn't exist. File sharing websites just put it up there to look like they are protected.

Look it up if you don't believe me.

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Actually, the law you are referring to doesn't exist. File sharing websites just put it up there to look like they are protected.

Look it up if you don't believe me.

Yeah i forgot the [sarcasm] marker.

[Jason1]

The song I downloaded sounded fine.