Talk:File Sharing

"However, P2P seems to be on its way out" <-- Source? That doesn't jibe with my experience at all. --Kyuuketsukirui 11:21, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

This reflects my experience as someone not living in the US and it might be different in other countries, but here it used to be that everyone relied on torrents to get their shows and some people still use them, but there has definitely been a change and a lot of people now rely on other means. Fandom always seems to be a bit ahead of general trends when it comes to these things and recent studies like the preliminary results from this one seem to confirm the trend. I just didn't want to go into too much detail because of the subject matter. --Doro 12:55, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Personally I'd agree that P2P (traditional Limewire style/BitTorrent/IRC) has been joined by more recent methods like streaming video and upload sites, but saying the technology is 'on its way out' seems a bit premature. I'm from the US, but my main fandoms are all anime/manga, and BitTorrent/IRC are still the first method of distribution for nearly all anime, many manga, and as far as I know the overwhelming majority of Asian dramas/movies. -Loren Leah 17:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed - I'm an American in Japan and I use BT for most of my access to American shows, since my net connection makes streaming difficult, and the upload sites are usually slower to upload new eps than BT (the upload sites I know of still d/l their originals from BT, so that's the still the main source for the original distribution, as far as I can tell?) --Xparrot 18:38, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

"the upload sites I know of still d/l their originals from BT" -- Yes, this is my experience as well. -Loren Leah 19:44, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Mine as well. The private TV torrenting site I use (for mostly US material) is heavily-trafficked despite stringent rules for participation. --saraht 01:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

where to put earlier sharing overview?

I feel that somehow the zines for trading source like I Finally Found It and APA-VCR ought to be put somewhere here, or that maybe there ought to be a more general article about fans sharing source material? like in the in-between stage of widespread online fandom but almost no highspeed connections there was at least one mailing list for video tape trading, called fenvideoswap, iirc, too.--RatCreature 20:40, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

There was also The Puppy Shelter. I agree that these should go somewhere, I'm just not sure whether it should be here or if there should be a more general article that includes all the different methods and maybe even scanlation and fansubs. It would probably fit better on a more general Sharing Source Material article... --Doro 21:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

I'd be in favor of the sharing source material page. I mean technically tapes are not files, and there is also sharing of books and comics and such in fandom. The objects I mean, not scanned versions.--RatCreature 22:44, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, tapes don't really fit but I didn't want the link lost. Sharing Source Material sounds good to me. Perhaps there should be a section or link on it to various zine libraries (Ming's, the old Starsky and Hutch zine archive run by Linda Cabrillo (?), and others)? --Mrs. Potato Head 22:56, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

non-piratical sharing

It would be good to mention somewhere that fans use file-hosting sites for posting podfic, vids, ... other fanworks I don't know about? I stuck an extra sentence on the end of the first paragraph, but I'm not sure if it works.--æþel 02:29, 20 January 2012 (UTC)