Conversation Between arefin0991 and Hans_Jam

People; the latest news says that the eBook forum will reopen as soon as it is 'cleansed' of offending files. But let's get one thing straight. Files can no longer be hosted on this site. It will be more like a message board. How the details are worked out remains to be seen, but if you want to continue to share you'll have to do it via a host site. So prepare. Get yourself a free account with a host. And this time, please, be more discreet. Pack the epub into an archive (zip or rar), rename the file so nobody can guess what is contained within, upload them to the host and save your link addresses and info on a textfile. Then you simply share the link, be that on post, or using PM's or eMail. The PM or Mail option allows you to choose whom you share with. In other words; you only share with people you actually know to be safe. Let's face it: every file can be traced. It's just a question of effort. The only thing we can do is make it so difficult and expensive to locate every single file that it simply isn't cost effective to do so. So let's try do it like that. Let's hide the real thing in a lot of descriptions, discussions and images and stop publishing pagelong lists of author names and bestseller lists that can be collected easily on Google. If they really want it, they still can get it. But they'll have to work for it; they have to follow the tracks to every single link and download the file themselves to be sure of what they've actually got. If every book will cost them U$ 100.- to find .... well, figure it out yourselves. Just let us get 20'000 up there. We can get this back together, but we'll need to be a bit more constructive about it.

HJ