ORON File Host

[Turtle]

I found this interesting, as I can never download from Oron as a free user.
I'd be interested in what others think?

Important notice to all Staff & Members:

With immediate effect, in the best interest of the forum. Oron file hosting service is now banned here for a few reasons.

Forum rule breaches:

1.1 Oron has been investigated for hosting underage material. The posting of such material leaves forums at risk of action being taken against them.

1.2 We have been forced to remove Oron links by the DMCA for copyright infingement.

1.3 As a result of marked file hosting of underage material & copyright infringement, all Internet service providers in the UK & Ireland have now blocked Oron, it is therefore inaccessible to our members from this region.

Forum guidance breaches:

2.1 While it is acknowledged that some good posters have chosen to host files on Oron, at the same time a greater issue has become evident in the recent months. Forums, blogs and sites are suffering from flood posting from 'new' members, who are paid by Oron to post their links.

2.2 Well known, large, forums who have been flooded with Oron posts have also been purchased by the owner of Oron, followed by dramatic rule changes favourable to Oron, including the restriction or banning of other file hosts, and the purging of non-Oron posters.

3.1 The behaviour of Oron posters has led to friction with forums, as other members are finding their threads continually pushed out of sections. Oron links being split into unecessary, small rars to increase downloads & cash points. Oron posters not contributing to the forum community, eg responding to requests, leaving comments on other posts etc. Their single concern would appear to be profit. Such behaviour is contrary, and detrimental, to the spirit of our forum.

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Penalties:

1.2 Posts with Oron links will be deleted.

2.2 Repeat posting of Oron links will result in a warning.

3.2 Further posting of Oron links, after a warning, will result in the member being banned & their ISP blocked.

[butler bill]

I also. Let's ban it

[gryphondo]

[spike70]

I have seen similar complaints on other sites.
BAN

[davy98]

Oron is the scourge of file hosting sites. I, along with many thousands of other people can't even use the so-called free service, as it just says I have reached the download limit, even without downloading anything. I have also heard that the subscribed service is poor and slow too. Absolutely terrible waste of time they are!

[bill_az]

I recently quit modding a giant message board, in part because of all the spammers that showed up when the admin decided to allow (m)Oron. Every scene was mirrored as quickly as possible, and it was an unmitigated mess. The (m)Oron owners in Germany have also bought 2 large boards, forumophilia and pornbb, which have had plummeting stats because they basically said the only allowed host was their own.

[Turtle]

I think we may now have a ban in place for this host.

[Slinkee]

It's banned on my board..