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Old 04-28-2012, 03:13 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Jakez View Post
Yes I realize they paid them, but how much? Like $0.001/download? And don't you have to reach 50,000 downloads just to begin getting paid for them? Is it really worth the small amount they make from megaupload when all their links could be dead overnight? Bandwidth is such a small cost, you make it as if they will go broke over $4/mo hosting fees.
dan bull made an extra 7k a year from mega upload/file lockers

When you use the give it away for free, and if you like it buy it model you can give a shit load of your music away for free.



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Not to mention hosting on their own domain such as "punkband.com/newalbum.zip" will allow people to type in "punkband.com" into their browser.

that the stupidest statement you have ever made

one simple entry in the webhosting plan allows me to redirect

www.mybandname.com/myalbum to what ever mega upload link i want.

Remember the whole pointer thing with files means that if i uploaded my file to mega upload first (something i could easily do if i were the copyright holder) i got credit for the download (because everyone else was a pointer to that file not their uploaded version of the file)

something i could not get if i hosted it myself.
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