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My interview with Phin from filehaus
Some of you maybe are familiar with the website filehaus and perhaps there are differing opinions on the service he offers. But one thing is sure - running an operation that deals with harassment day in and day out as well as pushing 100s of terabytes of data daily is no small task!
I wanted to talk the the person behind filehaus and just see who they are what makes them tick. You can see the interview on my website here: https://openkollective.org/filehaus.html
Please give it an earnest read, I'd like to do more interviews like this and I would appreciate honest feedback.
Comments
its on ihostart right? respect to calin for being able to host this starting from his basement!
btw why would they get harassed for running free file sharing platform? is it because of dmca lawyers?
Surprised you shared this before the Calin interview even though both are out, lol
Same question.
Quite difficult to understand from reading the article why he is being harassed.
I guess I don't hang out enough on twitter.
I couldn't figure out how it was financed, given the amount of traffic it seems to generate.
But thanks for sharing
I mean, file sharing platforms can be used for almost anything, from innocuous stuff to doxxing, porn, and ideological content from all sides of the political spectrum that's bound to get someone riled up, somewhere. It's hard to see how such a service wouldn't be under constant attack.
Not comfortable with the other one just yet. Need to reevaluate it and be satisfied before I promote it. Don't feel like it is an accurate representation of the whole situation.
I missed more details on infra. Servers, specs etc. Does calin has capacity to push hundred terrabytes everyday? How’s ddos attacks?
Doesn’t seem like you asked any of the questions to Calin from your previous thread asking the community for questions either
Communicating with him was very difficult and he took sometimes 24+ hours to respond and would just say he was busy. When I probed about questions like DDoS attacks and who was doing it he said he didn't want to talk about it. I think he just wanted to the article to be a justification of his rags to riches type story.
I do think there's a lot of success that warrants recognition, but I wanted to get in to some of the nitty gritty and he just didn't want to go there. So to me the article feels incomplete.
Yes - and I don't take down any of that stuff.
It gets a lot of people mad, but I just tell them that it is what it is and to fuck off if they're asking me to take down stuff that isn't CSAM.
What purpose does this anarchism serves?
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i m try in future to be more better 
Yes interview maked when receive the DDoS attacks , and recently very busy for test lot of new HDDs , in same time from next week i'm go to bucharest for make big network upgrade , so very busy
Regards
I consider myself a free speech absolutist. My services exist to promote free speech and give a massive "fuck you" to people trying to censor anything.
We are in an age of the internet where censorship is going to be more common than ever before. DMCA agents pissing their pants because people want to look at their content, troons pissing themselves because someone hurt their feelings, etc etc.
I’ve been called a “traitor to trans people” because I’m trans yet promote absolutist free speech, but I don’t care. They can fuck off
True neutrality (except csam) is rare nowadays. Live long and prosper.
i remember reading an interview about yify/yts about how their website was so much better than even google, how they have multiple layers and obfuscation and how no one can hack them but then maybe a week after that, the news that they had been raided or shutdown or something happened around the same time.
i think this was about a decade or more ago.
No doubt, when real and determined prosecutor will take a job on this - filehaus will flop. There is no thing as “unprosecutable”.
More likely when the donations dry up
Free unlimited permanent storage with 300GB per file isn’t sustainable anyway, no wonder filehaus asks for donations of every forum/discord group I’ve been involved it that’s gotta be expensive as hell to host
And yet The Pirate Bay, YIFY, et al remain online.
Their operational churn is less than filehaus. They don’t need so much storage and bw.
P.s. tpb is a collective, not a single person.
This is true. Perhaps filehaus will not live forever. Who knows. I made a large donation to the site to help out, and others have donated even larger sums as stated in the interview. If people value the service, they will donate. If not, then it will perish. Such is life. That should never stop someone from attempting something.