I have written countless posts on my opinion of using sites like FilePlanet and FileFront.
People finding themselves blocked, may find that using the Turbo mode in Opera browser gets you access, as you will be routed through an Opera proxy (for me in the UK I go through Poland).
Other than that, find a proxy or web proxy you trust, and browse via that.
I have said it before, and I will keep saying it until I stop re-spawning, or "Hit F10 to cancel".
We, the Unreal community need to too look after our own interests.
All large file hosts end up expanding and requiring registration, payment or limitation, and eventually collapsing or changing to something else (FilePlanet)
We need multiple FTP servers mirroring the UT-FILES format, with UT-Files being the master
Partial and complete, "the more the merrier".
Some people may only want to mirror files for a particular U-game. That is fine, as it still spreads the load.
I have outlined my idea to copy the AMINET system, successfully used for 20 years, and still going.
It is simple, and robust, with geographical redundancy (Sites all over the world).
It is "organic", growing and shrinking as servers change and move.
There is
never a single second, of any minute, of any day, of any year (going back many years) when an Amiga owner has been without the AMINET.
You can't crash it, block it, or delete it, even if you took down the central master.
No-one is going to do it for us.
We have to turn UT-FILES into a distributed "UnrealCDN" that is not owned by any one.
UT-FILES is great, but sits on 1 server in California. All it takes is an earthquake, or human-error and the whole thing disappears for a while.
That is something that we cannot risk, if more gamers are to reliably use it for redirects.
For my personal file space, I am currently relying on the 2GB you get with the "MyOpera" blogs.
High-speed, no ads, no DL limit, and you can organise them in folders.
As long as Opera follow the current path, my files will still be available in another 10 years time.
