Putlocker has been one of the few sites which did not gave up in the epic change in the file sharing sector in the last week till now, but just an hour ago, the company has put the following statement on their site:

Effective February 1st 2012, the affiliate program is shutting down. We will be launching a Partner Program for original content creators in the near future.

But they also made it clear that they will pay their affiliates in full for what they will earn till 31st jan, Which should give some peace of mind to uploaders who were using Putlocker.

putlocker shutting down affiliate program

In the past few days, Internet has changed for most of us with Megaupload owner getting arrested and website’s shutdown, all file hosts are running scared for e.g. Fileserve closing their sites(videobb, fileserve, videozer, filejungle, uploadstation) and filesonic etc. Some having decency to tell and pay their uploaders, others just closing their affiliate program and some even closing their sites.

I personally respect Putlocker for their brave decision to pay up their uploaders. Following comments were seen on wjunction’s Putlocker’s thread by the uploaders

“Thank you for the heads up. Very Professional. ” – Moddag

“Thank you for everything MrPut, it’s been great fun. I will continue to link with put and sock regardless. Protect yourself and do what you gotta do”. – Thristle

“Thank you verry much Putlocker it was a great time with you ” – Simoestcoool

The above comments clearly state how good uploaders feel when someone do not just run off with their money and pay up what they owe them.

If you like putlocker, do not forget to leave a comment here…

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unblock file sharing sites banned by dot

Hello Friends,

As mentioned in my previous post http://www.deepakarora.com/megavideo-mediafireblocked-in-india-department-of-telecom/, Department of Telecom (DOT) have blocked many file-sharing websites for India. After reading through on many blogs and forums, I have found out that MTNL, BSNL broadband people are mostly untouched by these changes as they have not been done by their ISP (as usual slow govt. work, but good for users).  It seems that DOT has issued Internet service providers like Reliance, Tata, Airtel etc instructions to block a list of sites and reliance, airtel have been first ones to block the sites (they are saving bandwidth and lots of money).  Other ISPs have blocked some sites while others are still accessible.

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Hello Friends,

I was just watching some videos online and to my surprise megavideo site does not opened and shown a blank page, so I just refreshed the page but then I got this red bold text on a background of exclamation mark

“this site has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom (DOT)”

And I was like WTF? I have a full year premium account left on that site and megavideo is the no. 1 video site online. Following is the screenshot of the megavideo site taken just few minutes back.

Megavideo blocked in India, but why?

I mean seriously, these kinds of stupid actions make me laugh. What do the government or department of telecom think, their action will achieve. I mean literally

1. Youtube – You can watch almost anything online, how many music videos and albums are available on youtube, are you going to be blocking youtube also!

2. Piracy will not and can not be stopped by these stupid actions, you will stop one site, 100 such sites will start.

3. Just search for a movie name + songs or mp3 and you get any album or mp3 you want online. Go and block all of them.

4. There are literally thousands of watch movies online sites available, bollywood, hollywood, tollywood etc you can not block or stop all of them.

Blocking one site is just plain stupid in my opinion.

Internet is supposed to be FREE, let it be FREE.

I can not see any reason to block Megavideo because many such other sites are still easily accessible,

How to access Megavideo and other file sharing services in India now

how to open sites blocked by dot

The only simple answer would be just use your favorite proxy site to access megavideo and in the mean time I will look for some more elegant solution.

Update- Mr. Sreekanth have suggested a better solution to this problem

http://www.ultrareach.com/

Download the program from the above url, they claim it is the best anti-censorship software available up to date.

To add to my disappointment they have also blocked mediafire.com , one of the best file sharing service ever. These guys have literally gone mad.

What do you think about megavideo and mediafire
being banned in India
, do share your views and comments.

Update: OMG, they have literally ruined the internet for us, I checked out the following sites, lets make a list of sites banned by department of Telecom Today.

File sharing and Video sharing sites Banned in India by DOT list

  • 1. Megaupload.com
  • 2. Mediafire.com
  • 3. Megavideo.com
  • 4. VideoBB.com
  • 5. Novamov.com
  • 6. Movshare.net
  • 7. Rapidshare.com
  • 8. Putlocker.com
  • 9. Hotfile.com
  • 10. Fileserve.com (sometimes opening, sometimes DOT page shows)
  • 11. Filesonic.com
  • 12. Filesonic.in
  • 13. Depositfiles.com
  • 14. Wupload.com
  • 15.  Uploaded.to
  • 16. UploadStation.com
  • 17.  Sendspace.com
  • 18.  Ziddu.com
  • Please comment if you find any more sites!

They have not only ruined this for us viewers, but there are literally thousands of Indians who earns a living and part time income from these websites. These file sharing websites are a good source of income for many people, it is pretty bad move by Indian Government’s Department of Telecom (DOT) and a violation of Free Speech in My opinion, Today is very SAD day for me :(

 

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