Mediafire is one of those services dmbm describes accurately. They promise a lot, and then don't keep up. Whereas it seems that the quality services don't promise too much, but are reliable.

For free accounts, there is currently no time limit on how long uploaded files will be stored

This is simply misinformation, as several files I uploaded to mediafire were gone within a few days. They might have improved, but I'd rather not put too much trust in their promises.

Democracy is found chiefly in masterless dwellings (for here every one is on an equality), and in those in which the ruler is weak and every one has licence to do as he pleases.
-Aristotle.

One thing one has to learn about the modern world at some time is that you can't expect too much of others. I learned to concentrate on my path and not get distracted by the silliness of others, because there's too much of it and you can't correct them all.

The German BPjM has announced in September 2008 that "Following The Voices Of Blood", "Immortal Pride", "In The Glare Of Burning Churches" and "The Celtic Winter" have been put on Sublist B of the index, which means that their distribution in Germany is prohibited under the Strafgesetzbuch:

The legal consequences of a work being listed on the index are:
   1. It must not be sold, provided or otherwise made accessible to minors.
   2. It must not be displayed where it can be seen by minors. This would, for example, include playing an indexed game in the presence of minors.
   3. It must be sold only within a shop. Basically selling indexed titles per mail order is illegal, however it is permissible if the package may only be handed over to a specified adult person, who has to present ID.
   4. It must not be rented out, except in a shop inaccessible to minors. This is why most video rentals in Germany are not accessible for minors - otherwise they would not be allowed to rent out certain horror (and adult) films.
   5. It must not be imported by mail order. In this case even an adult buyer is subject to penalty.
   6. It must not be advertised or announced in a place where the announcement or advertisement could be seen by minors.
   7. If it is for one of the above six causes, production, acquiring, and holding in store are subject to penalty too.

I didn't find any news article in English.
BPjM, Graveland

Looks like we have to provide FLACs for the above albums in Audiofile.

I like it nevertheless. It's art, and when you praise a shoemaker for his shoes, you don't expect him to make hats tomorrow.

Graveland is honest expression of spirit of metal. ;-). One only needs a few pairs of shoes (exception: women), but one doesn't blame the shoemaker for making excellent shoes.

Good post, mr number.

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."
 -- Saint Augustine

All great black metal has aspired the "greater", the idealistic, the unifying; it is this that made it great. Individualism destroys art.

What every black metal band should remember: Only that which is not only yours individually is important. You, as a band, must aspire the supra-individual, you must try to create art that is more than you are!

Granted, it is something I had thought about before my reading, but to have that simple inversion of modern/ Judeo-Christian thought inverted so plainly in words got me thinking.  Is the belief of the opposite, the belief in a metaphysical soul imprisoned in some rotting, worthless body, not the basis for individualism?  To realize that we are only individuals on a molecular, bodily level would help the world at large immensely right now.

The true individualism is to claim that we are only individuals on a "molecular, bodily level". For the supra-bodily is that which unites by being principle of all that is bodily. Individualism is the negation of this uniting principle.

Reductio ad Christianam religionem.