I have to admit that I am naive and uneducated about Internet service in an apartment complex. For REAL, unrelated tenants are using the same router?!? That seems awful for privacy for me, and certainly would make accessing the router to make changes impossible, unless you bribe the landlord. That is why using a port-forwarding VPN for eMule AND torrenting a good idea. The problem is, fewer VPNs are offering port forwarding these days, what with a worldwide fascist conspiracy intent on destroying "piracy", as discussed in some recent posts here. viewtopic.php?f=69&t=14963 (But I digress.)
This may sound a little harsh, but for that kind of convenience people should limit themselves solely to mainstream movies on Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, and iTunes. P2P sharing of rarer movies requires a little bit more technological sophistication. That is the price to be paid for having obscure or unpopular tastes, at least as taste is defined by Joe Sixpack.Yalda wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 2:21 pm I understand that this whole p2p "game" can be exciting and a fun challenge to set up for some, but I personally just want to click a link, watch and maybe right click and download.
Anyway -- FLM has changed over the years and become more flexible. It USED to be the case that there was outright hostility to any sharing which was not on eMule. I find that attitude absurd. A shared eMule link makes a thread a "RELease", period. Otherwise it is still a "REQuest". However, members are still ALLOWED to share files in other ways as they are able. Some members routinely provide BOTH eMule and direct-download links, while others are only able to provide direct-download. Others can take those links and choose to reshare them on eMule. Unlike in the bad old days, THIS particular Moderator will NOT remove links to torrents that get posted, for example. As far as *I* am concerned, sharing is sharing. If a torrent or a direct-download link goes dead, so be it. Members can re-up a file if they want, although doing so DOES take more effort than resharing a file on eMule. I do NOT want to give up my 'Mule. Once it is set up, it makes sharing and resharing very easy.
I quite like ulozto and use it to share, althought the endless difficult-to-see Captchas for the gozofinder search function are now really irritating. (And it is blocked in some regions, like Germany.) My understanding is that Archive.org is supposed to be for public domain material and NOT for general piracy (ha ha), and I would not want to direct law enforcement attention their way. They are too important a site, with material far more significant than the latest stupid movie.There are some sites (Uloz or something like that for example, Ok.ru, Vk.ru, Archive.org) where it is possible to convienently upload and download.
This is a movie-sharing site, not a software development site. Emule stopping official development long ago. (You are right, it IS old.) There are those who supposedly do unofficial modifications. Find those sites and suggest an installer, and see if anyone wants to donate their time for that project. I think that unlikely. Frankly, a basic eMule installation is accomplished easily. Getting it to work properly for your own particular Internet setup is the difficult part, and all the choices for all routers and VPNs could not possibly be anticipated by any installer! Besides, giving access for router and VPN settings to some random unofficial installer downloaded from some site would be a BAD BAD idea. That sort of thing should be under the control of the end user.make a custom Emule installer that automates all this hassle idk
Without a doubt, eMule IS used to share material that is NOT available on any mainstream site and will NEVER be linked at FLM, and it is at least somewhat more anonymous than some other sharing methods. An apparently innocent eMule search will readily reveal its availability. If someone truly believes their own Internet service is private and secure, they can choose to take the risk of catching law enforcement attention. I won't cry for them if they are wrong. (But no one should ask for any helpful hints here!)Or is this deliberate and necessary...
Again, anyone may post direct-download links that are available so other members can use them. They should understand that people will be justifiably annoyed if those links are for paid services; we want it free! And a thread STAYS a REQuest until someone shares an eMule link; this is simply a site organizational issue. I know that there are plenty of non-eMuling members who use FLM as inspiration to search out non-eMule sources for movies that interest them.
