Dochira O Onozomi Desu Ka ~ Ryouhou Hen (“Which Do You Desire? ~ Both Edition”) [English], an hentai doujinshi parodying the Idolm@ster series, by Tsurui (circle Plant)

I’m not sharing family photos, you may have noticed

Mediafire and any other “respectable” hosting service would ban my ass in one day, tops, with both the adult and piracy aspect being given as explanation. They don’t want to get into trouble and aren’t forgiving.

I resort to more shady hosts that don’t want to know, and only remove contents once they receive a DMCA (and sometimes even then they don’t remove it, like depositfiles who have awful practices and frequently forget to remove dmcaed files, I read). Among those hosts, I use the ones that share a fraction of their revenue with me the uploader. It helps covering a part of the site’s hosting (the total amount varies, if I add the site’s ads, I usually cover all expenses with a small bonus, that small bonus itself paying for the few times I need a tech guy, in the past it earned more and I would pay for a restaurant a month as a bonus). To give you an idea, rapidgator is like approx 10-15$ twice a month. I also noticed this business method, sharing a part of the revenue with the uploader, also equals a much more stable service and an incredibly better longevity: a decade later, most of the “big” file sharing services that work that way are still online, while I can only say that for a handful of other non-paying hosts. Depositfiles is an odd exception here: two years ago they gave up on sharing a part of their income, I kept them because why the fuck not they hardly earned anything anyway, they offer pretty decent download speeds to everyone, and they’re the ones who delete the files the less often of all the hosts, but I thought to myself that was a super bad omen and they would shut down within a year; well, my hunch was wrong, two years later they’re still afloat and still almost never delete files ^^