After the recent shutdown of the popular site Megaupload, it appears that several sites that allowed individuals to upload files to share across the internet are stopping the ability to share the files. Some of the sites include FileSonic, FileServe, and Uploaded.to. Many of these sites have switched have disabled sharing and switched to a model where customers can upload files and then only they can redownload them.
It is not known what is likely to happen in the long term, but there are worries that monitoring of user’s uploads will start to occur.
It is troubling that legitimate digital storage services should feel compelled to monitor their users, says intellectual property director Corynne McSherry of the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. “In terms of privacy, that should be a concern,” she says.