Purchasing a DDL premium account, which one would you pick?

I don't know much about DDL but someone gave me his fileserve premium account recently to download something I couldn't easily get on BT and usenet and it caught my attention since.

What's the best choice available, fileserve, rapidshare, etc...? I really don't know if new releases spread to the major ddl hosts systematically. Is there one clearly superior to the others in term of content?

Do those ddl servers log the content you download or it is like usenet servers who claim they don't log your activity?

Finally, isn't those accounts limited to one IP / segment? The fact that I could use an account from another country is intriguing.

Thx :)

I would think they're ever shifting. I used to use Releasemix before jumping on usenet. I don't personally know of a better indexing site, but you can get an idea of which ones are used. Maybe try finding which content would interest you, and subsequently which providers are used to host them.

They all seem to be showing these five: FiLESERVE – UPLOADSTATION – FiLEFACTORY – WUPLOAD – FiLESONiC

Megaupload is the best choice, it's old and reliable service has attracted lot of uploaders. I download lot of content through the mirror sites and among all the sites they index only Megaupload seems to have hosting the old content so it's the obvious choice also there is no IP limits, I have a dynamic IP and I use it without a problem and sometime I share it with friend abroad but having said that I would also advise you to first check the places (forums etc) from where you'll be downloading all the content from and see which lockerz are most used.

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Originally Posted by KFlint

What's the best choice available, fileserve, rapidshare, etc...? I really don't know if new releases spread to the major ddl hosts systematically. Is there one clearly superior to the others in term of content?

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From my experience, you must decide between Fileserve and Filesonic. I use Warez-BB to get my stuff (which is older movies and albums, mostly; and I assume you'll only be looking for things you can't find in BT or Usenet) and I always have to deal with one of the two. The former seems to have a slight edge.

Some tips on what not to do: Hotfile is kaput. Old uploads will probably be using Rapidshare links, but despite the exasperating wait times for free users, they are no longer worth considering buying an account on either. Wupload has been gaining popularity due to its generous reward system, but save for the captchas they're more friendly with non-paying users.

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Do those ddl servers log the content you download or it is like usenet servers who claim they don't log your activity?

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You got me there. It may be a good idea to ask them this question using the contact forms, and assume they do until there's reason to believe otherwise.

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Finally, isn't those accounts limited to one IP / segment? The fact that I could use an account from another country is intriguing.

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You were pretty lucky - Fileserve was sort of relaxed about account sharing until a few months ago. Suspicious activity will not get it disabled. If you ever need to share or use a shared account, make sure everyone uses jDownloader - it uses APIs to retrieve account information, which appear to be less monitored.

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

They all seem to be showing these five: FiLESERVE – UPLOADSTATION – FiLEFACTORY – WUPLOAD – FiLESONiC

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Filefactory seems to be used very sparingly. Uploadstation I hadn't even heard of.

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Originally Posted by whatcdfan

Megaupload is the best choice, it's old and reliable service has attracted lot of uploaders.

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Are you serious? I have no idea of why MU would suddenly attract people, unless they switched to a ground-breaking referral system. :unsure:

The restrictions are very soft, also - a small 45-second wait time before downloads, and one file at a time. No captchas, no waiting between files, full speed. Not worth paying money for a Premium account, in my opinion.

Thx all for your answers, really helpful :)

I didn't know about megaupload having unlimited speed for regular users, that's interesting.

i'm member on various fileshosting and in my opinion the best are : fileserve,megaupload,netload and rapidshare.
account sharing is ok on all of them.

you might wanna read this too :http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-large...-sites-110828/

fileserver and filesonic are most used in warez-bb and x264-bb

Like Anon said, there is no real reason to go for Megaupload. Fileserve seems to be the best choice. Its mostly used (could depend on site obviously) and some old stuff you can only find on fileserve.

the best thing to do is to get a leechbox account. This is a site that basically resells premium memberships to many hosts at a discounted rate

Some examples: 2leech.com, RPnet.biz, Real-Debrid

You will save a lot of money and not have to worry about which one to pick.

^ I'm thinking of going this route myself. KFlint if you choose the leech account way soon then let us know how you like it.

And yeah the others are right, just download from Megaupload as a free user. Unless your downloading a really good amount every single day and can't wait the 45 seconds between links, then there's really not a reason to have one.

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Originally Posted by cherio

the best thing to do is to get a leechbox account. This is a site that basically resells premium memberships to many hosts at a discounted rate

Some examples: 2leech.com, RPnet.biz, real-debrid

You will save a lot of money and not have to worry about which one to pick.

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Didn't know of that, not sure I understand the process by which you can get the files from different hosts with those services, I imagine you can't just paste links directly in jdownloader then, there is some kind of links processing done on their site (?).

At first look, it's two times cheaper on fileserve than 2leech.com for a two years account.

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

^ I'm thinking of going this route myself. KFlint if you choose the leech account way soon then let us know how you like it.

And yeah the others are right, just download from Megaupload as a free user. Unless your downloading a really good amount every single day and can't wait the 45 seconds between links, then there's really not a reason to have one.

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Sure, if I decide to go with it I'll keep you informed.

I tried Megaupload yesterday with jDownloader and I got great speed and didn't have to bother about the wait time really. Just paste all the links at once and it does the rest for you, that's nice.

I'm still using a fileserve account from a friend so I guess I'll wait before purchasing anything as it gets the job done for now.




P.S. I still feel safer using usenet somehow, especially for newer releases. I read the privacy policy of fileserve and I'm not quite sure what they log or don't. I'll ask them someday.

Yeah but you would be getting access to all the accounts that, for example, 2leech.com lets you(which according to their home page there's quite a few). Not only Fileserve.

And from what I understand about the process, you copy/paste whatever links you want to the site then it'll download you and give a premium link to download. But I'm not exactly sure if that's it since I haven't yet used one. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

By the way, here's from 2leech's Faq about IP sharing:

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Answer: We will never sell or give out customer information to any 3rd party, and we do not keep logs of which file(s) a specific user trans-loads or downloads. For more information please view our Privacy Policy.

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Just saw you can get a 48 hour unlimited trial account from them for $2.95. Then I'll give that a shot before getting a regular account.

P.S. I feel pretty much as safe downloading from DDL as I am with Usenet.

That sounds good indeed if you have access to all those sites in a convenient way, at 95$ a year, that's roughly the same price as astraweb.

Usenet let me down many times with older stuff (that was easily found on DDL sites) and I'm getting tired of those incomplete transfers.

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Originally Posted by cherio

the best thing to do is to get a leechbox account. This is a site that basically resells premium memberships to many hosts at a discounted rate

Some examples: 2leech.com, RPnet.biz, real-debrid

You will save a lot of money and not have to worry about which one to pick.

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what's the catch ? it's not possible to have 25 file hosts with only 9.95 each month

I also want to know what the catch is to these type of services. They seem a little to good to be true.

the services are true...i've used www.alldebrid.fr and the links are converted to premium...and you can download on maximum speed

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

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Originally Posted by Stabber

what's the catch ? it's not possible to have 25 file hosts with only 9.95 each month

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I also want to know what the catch is to these type of services. They seem a little to good to be true.

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Here's an example of how I suspect file-hosting aggregators might work:

1. Aggregator buys a (unlimited) subscription at each of 25 different file hosts.

2. Aggregator (re)sells those (25) accounts to 100 different people.

3. Aggregator pockets the excess cash flow. :p

Keeping in mind that overall bandwidth costs will double when traffic is routed through proxy connections --- which are required in order to have multiple users clandestinely share a single filehost without being discovered --- the aggregator will need to (re)sell perhaps twice as many accounts as it buys just to break even.

If that's the scenario, then there's no doubt that the aggregator will be playing a cat-and-mouse game with the filehost: getting discovered as a high-bandwidth/suspicious user, getting it's IPs *and accounts* banned, and then starting over again with fresh new IP addresses and signing up for new accounts at the same filehosts that just banned them for cheating/abuse.

Megaupload is the best bet here I have used FileServe and Megaupload and I prefer MU great speed less downtime compared to FS

i may give a shot at 2leech , does anyone know if it works ?

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Usenet let me down many times with older stuff (that was easily found on DDL sites) and I'm getting tired of those incomplete transfers.

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1) astrweb + blockews block account (fill server)= you''ll almost never see incompletes

2) could you PM me with several titles(5-10) you couldnt find. Its not to convince you in some way that you should't get ddl account but just for me- im interested in "impossible-to-find-it" stuff. thanx =)

as for your question. id recommend megaupload. But not if you are planning on uploading something via it. it tends to be slow even on premium accounts

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Originally Posted by Hypatia

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Usenet let me down many times with older stuff (that was easily found on DDL sites) and I'm getting tired of those incomplete transfers.

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1) astrweb + blockews block account (fill server)= you''ll almost never see incompletes

2) could you PM me with several titles(5-10) you couldnt find. Its not to convince you in some way that you should't get ddl account but just for me- im interested in "impossible-to-find-it" stuff. thanx =)

as for your question. id recommend megaupload. But not if you are planning on uploading something via it. it tends to be slow even on premium accounts

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1) Yeah, I've been thinking about it for a while now. I'm not exactly sure how many gigs to purchase, I'm guessing 100 gigs of fill goes a long way.
2)I don't really think there's really a better way to find stuff than using something like supersearch, right? That's what I use when I can't find a NZB. Maybe I don't know all the tricks.

supersearch's developer has gone AWOL again and SL has stopped indexing certain stuff + it doesnt search within archives.

Thanks for the low-down zot.

I'm especially curious on how long it takes for one of this leech hosters to download the file and spit you out the premium link though. I mean I know it depends on the file of the size, but are you waiting around a while for them to give you the premium link?

@Hypatia : Just as an example, can you find BBC - Yellowstone : battle for life, in 720p?

I found it on DDL and BT quite easily. Couldn't find it using supersearch or binsearch.info.

I found it at Nbzmatrix:
Yellowstone Battle For Life 2009 720p BluRay x264 PUZZLE
> Documentaries: HD
Added to Usenet: 3/19/2010 6:39:08 AM GMT, 531 d (ago)
Added to Index: 19/Mar/2010 11:00:42 AM GMT, 531 d (ago)
Size: 7.23 GB
Parts: 12570
Group: alt.binaries.hdtv.x264

They only want a few bucks for their 1200 day subscription.

KFlint

http://www.mysterbin.com/advsearch?q...125&complete=2
Yellowstone.Battle.For.Life.2009.720p.BluRay.x264-PUZZLE
Yellowstone.Battle.For.Life.2009.1080p.BluRay.x264-PUZZLE

Yellowstone.Battle.For.Life.2009.PART.1.PROPER.720p.BluRay.x264-KaKa
Yellowstone.Battle.For.Life.2009.PART.2.PROPER.720p.BluRay.x264-KaKa
Yellowstone.Battle.For.Life.2009.PART.3.PROPER.720p.BluRay.x264-KaKa

i guess you should download proper versions=) from Kaka


posters often upload using only short scene name so you can search using scene names - kaka-ybflpart1 or kaka-ybfl*

like this :

http://www.mysterbin.com/advsearch?q...125&complete=2




NEVER search with all these dots, years etc like for "Yellowstone.Battle.For.Life.2009.720p.BluRay.x264-PUZZLE" ( in our case)

i mean DONT enter the whole scene (or whatever)title

always simplify ur search. to get more results to process

Like "Yellowstone Battle Life" and set a size filter
or "Yellowstone Battle Life 720p"


the same releases on binsearch

http://binsearch.info/index.php?q=Ye...ont=&postdate=

Don't know what I did but it was quite easy to find indeed, think I put BBC Yellowstone battle for life... :pinch:

Never thought of setting a min file size, that's a good idea to filter the usual crap.

zot has got the idea.

@Stabber
a leechbox provider only needs a few "unlimited" accounts to run their service. So it is feasible for them to operate. Most cyberlockers have hidden download limits that are high enough that the average member will not reach. In case their premium accounts run out of traffic, they have backup accounts they can use.

@KFlint
the links you want to get are pasted into textbox at your leechbox and downloaded to their servers. After the download queue is finished they give you links to download from their server that you can put into your download manager. So you are essentially remotely downloading like a seedbox. Files are available for around 24-48 hours then automatically deleted to free space up.

The security advantage is big because the file host never logs your IP.

@Funkin
leechboxes use Gbit lines so it will be fast. Of course speed may vary throughout the day depending on how many other users are downloading and how long the queue is.

Interesting, thx!

Is there one leechbox provider you would particularly recommend? I only checked 2leech.com.

Thanks, Cherio. That's the info I was looking for. The biggest files I really download are probably SD seasons packs. Something like 2-5GB big. But if these places are using a Gbit line that something like that shouldn't take very long at all to download.

And I'll second KFlints question. What leech provider would you recommend? Preferably one that offers a couple dollar trial period like 2leech.

I use megaupload and I am very happy with it! I have no intentions to change by any other site hopedagem.

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Interesting, thx!

Is there one leechbox provider you would particularly recommend? I only checked 2leech.com.

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2leech is one of the best. Their 48 hour trial is cheap and they have been around since 2009. I think are operated by the people behind the Megarelease blog.

Real-Debrid.fr is a popular alternative also. Some reviews are at bolt.cd

Generally avoid any service that has small bandwidth caps. This usually means they don't have enough servers to handle heavy loads.
It is nice if new file hosts are added but not essential if they already have the big ones.

Some other options:
Rapid8.com
Rapidgen.net
MyDownloader.net
LeechKing.com
LeechDaddy.com
Leechpack.com limited but has some interesting features

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

What leech provider would you recommend? Preferably one that offers a couple dollar trial period like 2leech.

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2leech has a 2 day trial
Rapid8 has 2 day trial
LeechDaddy has a 4 day money back guarantee

Stay away from limited services like
Downloadnow.net
Filedownloader.net

Thanks cherio. I'll give 2leech a shot if I ever get around to it.

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

Thanks cherio. I'll give 2leech a shot if I ever get around to it.

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No problem. 2leech has most of the popular hosts except Oron. Very few leechboxes support Oron or Depositfiles because the premium traffic limits would not work well in a shared environment.

One last question about it. I'm wondering how you would use a service like this with something like JDownloader. You have to input your premium account details into JD to get the premium privileges. But since there won't be any premium account details to enter, are you still able to download these links at full speed and without wait times in an app like JD?

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

One last question about it. I'm wondering how you would use a service like this with something like JDownloader. You have to input your premium account details into JD to get the premium privileges. But since there won't be any premium account details to enter, are you still able to download these links at full speed and without wait times in an app like JD?

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Based on what he said, I'd think you have to use your browser to make them fetch the links, then you can add the "mirrored" files as a regular HTTP download.

Oh, and thank you for the insight, cherio. I didn't plan on paying for services like 2leech, but I've always been somewhat curious as how they manage to work.

Here's a video showing how it works on 2leech :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2RW29zXAY4

Seems like you have to click each link of an archive.

Looking at it, the download speed seems to average 1 MB/s from the host to 2leech, hope it's faster than that as it's supposedly on a GBit line.

The person in the video only tried leeching small programs which don't give the connection enough time to reach full speed. They should have used 100MB RAR parts or single movie links, that'd represent a more "realistic" usage.

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

One last question about it. I'm wondering how you would use a service like this with something like JDownloader. You have to input your premium account details into JD to get the premium privileges. But since there won't be any premium account details to enter, are you still able to download these links at full speed and without wait times in an app like JD?

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The leechbox will give you a premium login to their site after you pay. I think you are confusing leechboxes with free premium link generators that are supported by donations and ads. Think of a leechbox as the ultimate universal premium account.

There is a plugin for Real-Debrid http://real-debrid.com/jdownloader-plugin
I'm not sure if there are any others, I switched to MiPony and haven't used jD in a while.

According to the jD forum there are plans to officially support 2leech, but it is easier to just use IDM and not worry about plugins.

You can download at full speed from the leechbox server. A premium leechbox user will not have any wait times beyond the download queue of the server.

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Originally Posted by anon

Based on what he said, I'd think you have to use your browser to make them fetch the links, then you can add the "mirrored" files as a regular HTTP download.

Oh, and thank you for the insight, cherio. I didn't plan on paying for services like 2leech, but I've always been somewhat curious as how they manage to work.

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You're welcome anon. Leechboxes use Rapidleech scripts to do their magic.

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Originally Posted by anon

The person in the video only tried leeching small programs which don't give the connection enough time to reach full speed. They should have used 100MB RAR parts or single movie links, that'd represent a more "realistic" usage.

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Good point, didn't think of that.

I just saw speed averaging 6 MB/s on another video.

The whole system isn't bad, but think I prefer the simplicity of usenet after all.