[新聞] ZippyShare 公告將在3月31日停止服務

Laputa

ZippyShare公告將在3月31日停止服務，所以如果有人要下載檔案的，動作要快喔！
少了一個空間可用蠻可惜的。

Source: https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211

Hey Folks,

We’ve decided that we’re shutting down the project at the end of the month. Please make backups of your important files, you have about two weeks to do so. Until then, the site will run without any changes.

There are several reasons for the closure:

– Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowly running out of steam. I guess all the competing file storage service companies on the market look better, offer better performance and more features. No one needs a dinosaur like us anymore.

– All sorts of adblockers, whether built into the browser, as add-ons, or in the form of DNS services. Sure, we all use them, but they take away any control the site owner has over the site. Eventually we get to the point where a vicious cycle begins, in order to pay for the server infrastructure you are forced to place more and more ads, then users fire up more and more adblockers and we get to a point like today.

– Rising electricity prices. Over the past year, electricity prices have gone up 2.5 times, which, with a large number of servers, gives a significant increase in costs that we have no way to balance.

There are still a bunch of smaller reasons, but we could write a book on this, and probably no one would want to read it.

To sum it up, we can no longer afford to maintain the site.

You can send us any comments to (we’ll read them all, we’ll probably respond to just a few):
support@zippyshare.com

Thanks for being with us over the years.

See you in the depths of the Internet. o7

Laputa

demon

看到這個有種淡淡的哀傷，只能說是時代的演化了
因為一些廣告會影響實況觀看，所以不少人都會裝adb來擋，也造成了這種現況

thanatos

ZippyShare 在 2012 年免空浩劫之後我有用過一陣子，基本上都是傳動畫發在無限上。
然後某天我登入帳號就發現自己的檔案被清空了，上傳主機的 IP 也被封鎖，從那個 IP 上傳的檔案會直接失蹤。
因此當時就看出他們是小成本在經營，不會長久，特別是在免空浩劫日之後版權商都採取經濟封鎖方式而非法律行動。

像是 RapidGator 這種大家俗稱的錢空，在免空浩劫日後做了很多事，像是機房遷移、維繫收款管道突破經濟封鎖，才是真正不滅的生存方式。
10 年前我就在很多地方提倡錢空這種分享者、空間商、網站經營者互利共生的黃金三角概念，到現在依然適用。
也許華語圈的論壇仍有不少分享者在使用如 ZippyShare 等方式堅持免費分享，但我認為這個做法已經接近病態，總有一天會消亡。

分享者終究要明白一件事，就是自己的時間不該是不值錢的，下載者向分享者付費是天經地義的道理。
畢竟如果分享者拿這些時間去精進自己的專業能力，可以找份更好的工作，或者在現在的工作上有更好的表現，得到更穩定的收入。
在不久後的未來，坐在辦公室裡的低階人才會慢慢被 AI 取代，不太需要動腦的辦公室職缺會越來越少，人們會需要更多時間來精進自己的能力。
如果獲取資源的人沒辦法協助讓資源分享能夠成為一個職業，那麼這個圈子就很難再健康發展下去。

其實錢空養活不少落後國家的人，像是土耳其，就有不少全職在做分享的分享者。
他們唯一的收入就是錢空分潤給他們的佣金，而這些佣金的來源當然是下載者購買高級會員所貢獻的。
加上台灣人口紅利即將用盡，會面臨少子化的問題，要期待每一世代都有新的學生因為純粹的興趣而無償分享資源非常不切實際。