[Hack&Lube]

A couple more have bit this dust like Fileserve. This is unfortunate for myself because I actually bought Megaupload, Fileserve, and Filesonic accounts for my parents to use.

My parents are big on television and movies from Hong Kong and China and for a lot of ethnic groups, there is a huge reliance on these services in order to get recorded TV broadcasts from other countries or back home as there is no feasible or legal way to watch these shows available. These are just the places where people put this kind of content. I don't give a damn about downloading Jay-Z CDs or Transformers 2 or any of that crap. These services were about being able to get my parents content from around the world that you simply cannot buy or purchase here. I would if I could.

There is a huge desire out there to be able to access content but no legal way to access it and this is the void some legitimate company needs to fill but as Netflix.ca has found out, it's difficult with all the rights wrangling.

What hurts the most for me is that these services were the only ones hosting a lot of the more unique content from other countries or other decades that were rare and obscure. One area that has lost a lot of stuff in the past days are the big tape-trading communities trading super rare concert recordings from the 70s-90s that you will never hear again anywhere.