File sharing alternatives ... what are they?

[anon]

I personally use wupload.com, for free members it offers minimal limitations, has great download speeds, and has everything you want.

Speeds used to be good for me, but recently they have declined quite a lot - less than 100kB/s, usually. Maybe their servers are being increasingly burdened as popularity increases, maybe it's an strategy to make people buy Premium access, maybe it's just a coincidence.

As regards to the risks of using file sharing, it's pretty much impossible to get caught by your ISP, unlike p2p, as it's a direct download so it doesn't look suspicious.

For me, P2P is a form of "filesharing". I think most people will also think of P2P when that term is used. I call sites like Wupload file hosters or one-click hosters to avoid confusion.

[gnuCyclist]

As I mainly use file sharing for downloading ebooks, library.nu is a real gold mine. It's a real hassle to become a regular user, but as a newbie you can search a database of over 430.000 high quality books.

All books are automatically uploaded to ifile.it (you won't ever find a single dead link on this site), and the speeds are amazing (2-3 MB/s). The only downside is that newbie users have to get pass a lot of captcha. I dearly recommend that site to every ebook lover.