QUOTE (langes01x @ Dec 18 2008, 10:01 PM) You will never get the whole anime community to go with a single upload site just because different people like the sites for many reasons. Someone may like one of them because it offers feature X and others like a different site for feature Y.
You list quite a few different sites that I have never heard of. I think most people stick to Megaupload, Mediafire, Sendspace, and Rapidshare so that would cover probably 90% of all uploaded stuff you could want. Then again 10$ per site per month would make a serious dent in your wallet.
I say just stick with sites like Fansub that give it to you for free. This site picks up almost every show (other than the licensed ones) so you can probably get most if not everything from here. Torrents can get you everything (or at least almost everything) and IRC can probably get you everything if you know how to use it and where to look.
I agree. Everyone has their own preference. Most people here use Megaupload to upload their files because its fast and recently (before I lost access at school for some unknown reason) no wait time, plus there's happy hour premium.
On the other hand, others use Rapidshare, sendspace, and Mediafire are probably the other three big ones as they don't always guarantee a wait time.
The next issue is file sizes...try uploading a movie for instance. One way is to split it into part files...problem there is downloading multiple things...wait time then becomes an issue, or you can use sites like gigeshare (dunno if it's still around) to upload these files. Again, there are many factors before uploading files, and there's no way to get the community to agree on one or even two upload sites. Even if the community did agree, probably not if it's a site I never used before.
Some of you may remember when one of the (in)famous raw providers was recently arrested for file sharing via such sites (uploading thousands and even hundred thousands of raws for fansubbers)....some networks don't protect private information from the government even though they say they protect it from third party networks and whatnot. So if the whole anime community were to sign up for one site, care to guess as to how things may turn out given that information? The whole anime community, or rather the fansub community would collapse in a heartbeat or most of it at least.
