Eroyume

MediaFire recently went through lots of changes, and coincidentally, a bunch of accounts went with it. I’m assuming there was some sort of an amendment to their terms of service, maybe a three strikes policy. Anyway, some of Eroyume’s files have been under attack by Funimation in the past, and that is likely what led to the suspension. This, of course, is unintentional. They have bots that automatically sniff out specific titles, and they often mistake these as being videos from anime they’ve licensed for distribution in the United States. They don’t hold the publishing rights to any visual novels, and to my knowledge, no visual novel publisher has ever filed any formal complaints. And why would they? They provide the vast majority of these for free on the internet, and I just bring them down to size. Now, I could counter some of these DMCA requests, but it could only be on their behalf. Rather than go through that kind of trouble, I will just switch to a more secure file host, and that brings us to…

MEGA. This is Kim Dotcom’s new business venture set to succeed MegaUpload. Download speeds are reasonably fast. It lacks features as it’s still in beta testing, but one nice thing it has that MediaFire does not is support for 32 languages, including Japanese. I’ve already uploaded all of Eroyume’s files to the service, but it is going to take me some time to replace all of the links at the website.

As for the lack of updates, and I know some of you were wondering, January has always been a notoriously slow month for VNs. There just haven’t been any new videos to add, and I haven’t had the time to upload any older ones with my job being so demanding. Things will be back into full swing very soon. Thanks for your patience.