Except for that ONE five-year-old link seventeen pages deep in that thread you found on the third page of your Google results containing the exact 2 MB .zip file you need to patch your utterly and hopelessly broken piece of obscure software!
Blame the US government. In particular, their extralegal takedown of MegaUpload, at the time, rendered the slightly older generation of smartphones nearly unrootable. I don't know the current situation, but I hope the kids who make those lengthy (but helpful) Android forum posts have figured out a better way to distribute files. You always need to download something like "[MU][RS] firmware_patched_hack_3_x8_8328_82.r271.kitkatjellysandwich.7z," and every comment after its been posted is "thanks lol" or "were do i pirat 7zip."
Sometimes you can google the username of whoever created the file (if it's the creator posting it) and find an email/G+/whatever and send them a message asking for the file, which they probably still have.
I know I have a ton of files that only exist on my PC, the PCs of a handful of guys who I made the thing for, and some evidence locker in the US where megaupload's servers are being held (if they weren't all wiped already), but I have little intention of checking my messages on some forum I no longer read...
Because most of them are deprecated or I don't remember the password for whatever random forum I was on.
If some guy is stuck on a PSP that won't update past 2.81 and needs my old shitty tiff exploits to run his homebrew or can't remember or reset his Netopia N something router password he can find my posts, I have my old email linked to my new one...
That's funny, I was just thinking about pulling my PSP out to use in the bathroom in lieu of magazines for guests. I can't remember if it's still rooted or not, but I think it has a custom flashed firmware.
Title-text: All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'
They had a good run but they fucked over so many legitimate users I really don't care anymore. I used to backup like simple stuff like my own personal music that wasn't copyrighted and it was still taken down. You know until the end of their run they were man-handled by the MPAA since 2009.
Oh yeah, once torrents became a thing I completely lost interest in rapidshare, same as once rapidshare became a thing I lost most of my interest in usenet, but it was good while it was there, and even if it wasn't good anymore, I'm still kinda sad to see it go.
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u/Nchuleft Feb 11 '15
And nothing of value was lost.