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Server Maintenance @ 27/06/2010 1.30pm

Server will be restarted to completed some updates. Estimate downtime is 1hour.

Server maintenance completed and filemanager errors fixed.

RapidShare Kills Reward Program Over Piracy Concerns

RapidShare will no longer offer incentives to users who share popular content. After having stopped cash payouts for their rewards program some time ago, RapidShare has now decided to discontinue the entire program. The file-hosting service cites complaints by copyright holders that the rewards were facilitating piracy as the reason for this move.

“RapidShare has decided not to participate in this battle and not to fight for the favor of criminals. Instead we would rather like to agitate against these activities and – if possible – to institute proceedings against those competitors of ours, who are intentionally supporting criminal activities,” Chang wrote in an email a few months ago.

Whether RapidShare’s most recent move to shut down the reward program will cause it to lose users is yet to be seen. If anything, it may have avoided yet another expensive legal battle while ensuring the site can continue to operate its business.

Source: Torrentfreak.

Server Maintenance @ 6.50pm 11/06/2010

Server will be down for approximately 90minutes to allow windows update and file maintenance.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused

Server Back Online @ 7.55pm

Major Maintenance @ 27th April 11.30pm

To our valued and respected customer of BlazingFiles.Com, there will be a major hardware maintenace and software upgrade at 23.30 27th April. During this, none of the server download such as webui,FTP and HTTP will be online. Expected downtime is 9hours maximum time. We are changing our hardware from SATA to SLC SSD drive which is resposible for OS drive and HTTP. Sorry for the trouble caused

Update 1[ 1.51am]: Server is back online. Restoration of files and software installation commencing.

Update 2[ 4.45am]: FTP and HTTP back online. Webui will follow in few hours as hash checking is consuming time. All users will get 1days extra.

Disruptions in Internet services until May 2(TMNet)

Repairs to a fault in the submarine cable network linking Malaysia to Europe and the United States is expected to cause disruptions in nationwide Internet services from Saturday until May 2.

However, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), in a statement here Friday, said it was taking active steps to minimise disruptions by adding additional links on other routes and coordinating with other international carriers to provide additional bandwidth for its customers.

“Despite these initiatives, customers using Internet services nationwide may experience some degree of service degradation, such as slow browsing while accessing international websites.

Source: theStar

Edit: May 1 2010:Telekom Malaysia Berhad ™ is pleased to inform its customers that the repair works on the Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4 (SMW4) submarine cable network between Palermo (Southern Italy) and Alexandria (Northern Egypt) linking Internet traffic from Malaysia to Europe and the United States (US), have now been fully completed.

TM has already recovered its bandwidth capacity for Internet traffic to Europe and the US to-date. TM Internet services have resumed normal operations since Friday, 30 April 2010. Therefore, all international links have been fully restored and our services have resumed back to normal.

!ut File Extension

Partial torrent file downloaded with the uTorrent BitTorrent client; appended to all in-progress downloads if the “Append '.!ut' to incomplete files” option is selected in uTorrent preferences; the “.!ut” extension is removed once the file has been fully downloaded.

‘!UT’ extensions are usually seen as a ‘double-extension’ i.e. the ‘.!UT’ follows after another extension, e.g. data.avi.!UT

We noticed that some user are transferring this file !ut from FTP. We are advising all user not to download this file as this has caused the utorrent back-end to crash or the selected download to stop on error.The !ut file will disappear once the utorrent has fully downloaded your selected torrent

Rapidshare Terminates Accounts of Illegal Downloaders

In common with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, Rapidshare has steadily increased its user base in recent years. The site has hundreds of millions of visitors each month and is listed among the 50 most-used sites on the Internet.

Like most file-hosting services, Rapidshare is hosting a wide range of music, movies and music files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders. This has dragged the company’s bosses into several lawsuits with copyright holders already, most recently they were ordered to proactively filter 148 book titles to avoid jail time and huge fines. Read More …

Server Maintenance @ 1.30pm / 10.03.10

Greetings,

There will be on-going maintenance now at 1.30pm till 2.30pm. this is to allow windows updates, utorrent client updates and installation of additional RAM into the server. Last uptime is 50days.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

2.15pm: Webui back online.

If there is any problem, please post it here or email us