Need4Power

Yes I agree.

I appreciate the Stop Killing Games movement. But call me pessimistic; I've never seen any of that stuff work to a large degree. Big corporations simply does not care about us, they take our messages and throw them to the trash can. Pushing for a legal change that will also be enforced can be very far off on the horizon. I can only see action working as building our own infrastructure that is independent and untouchable. You know who did the best media preservation work over the years, for decades of content? It was pirates. (i.e., the people.) No one else stepped up. Every media that is not lost is immediately downloadable, no censorship, no region lock, no removal because some music license in said media suddenly expired or anything silly like that, accessible offline, full ownership and you can share with friends, no one can suddenly patch out things out of your media or snatch it away from you, and unfortunately the list is L O N G. It's not even about the money, it is simply a good service, like it should be. Can you see something like this ever happening as a result of a movement, especially considering how far down the bottom our consumer rights fell to? For me it's hard to believe I think we need to build our own stuff to rely on. If MUGEN creations are being taken down, we need some smart people to make a service that would be, at least somewhat, immune to DMCA. And move on from services that are susceptible to it. Wait a bit longer, and a lot more stuff will be lost. For now, torrent is the only system I know. Maybe normalizing uploading stuff to multiple, lesser known file hosting services would help. Surely there are more methods...

I think there needs to be a change of mindset. The old internet as we know it simply does not exist anymore; it became a very restricted, sanitized, corporate place. It is not a specific attack on the MUGEN community or even an issue of Mega.NZ in particular. It is all across the internet. I remind you that once upon a time you could upload almost anything to YouTube, now you get automatic copyright strike for even faintly played copyright music in the background of your videos. People used to make creative stuff like AMVs or build upon each other's work to make wonderful things, nowadays content creators are very afraid to insert anything that may slightly upset YouTube. Some people here may not want to hear it since I assume MUGEN character creation is an adjacent interest, but the modding community as well used to be more about free sharing and love for video games, nowadays a lot of people refuse to work together since there's money involved (personally I blame Bethesda for being the first to introduce greed to what was once a pure and passionate community), they put in DRM in their mods and rush to copyright strike everyone who creates a customized version of their work since they can now monetize it and they don't want to miss on their potential small cash cow. Not even speaking of the internet slowly getting more and more censored and supervised, things getting removed, patched out or altered, etc. Big sites trying to become more advertiser friendly or maximize profits so they take certain actions which result in content removal, and more. To put it shortly, rest down the expectation of uploading something to the internet, and it staying there. Preservation is 100x more difficult. Surely not a good idea anymore to use big file hosting sites as your only source. The internet is no longer the free wild west of creativity. Beware, because content removal processes are becoming more and more automated. You did an excellent write-up by the way. I think that torrent is great for sharing. But always, everyone, keep a backup on cold storage. Never delete anything . You never know when it will be taken away from you and become a lost media.

Hi everyone, I thought this may be worth a shot. I'm looking for an old Dragon Ball Ball M.U.G.E.N release that I played around 19 years ago. The game was called something along the lines of "DBZ vs The World" and it contained characters from many different sources, but mainly Dragon Ball Z. I would really like to find this specific version because I have a lot of memories with it. Unfortunately I deleted it many years ago and now I regret it. I don't even remember how I got it... maybe from eMule? If anyone here remember it and have any clue where I can get it, I would be very grateful!