MediaFire Not Too Happy About Skipscreen Firefox Add-on
Posted 10/08/09 at 08:05:17 PM by Ryan Whitwam
Developers of the Firefox Add-on, SkipScreen, had a bit of a rude awakening recently when Mozilla said they’d received a takedown request. The request was made by file hosting site, MediaFire. They claimed that SkipScreen violated their terms of use. To their credit, Mozilla asked the SkipScreen devs to respond before they’d pull the add-on down. Mediafire contends that SkipScreen “bypasses the MediaFire website and steals costly bandwidth”. They also claimed that SkipScreen displays content from other pages.
SkipScreen allows users to bypass the tedious wait times on sharing sites like MediaFire and Rapidshare. This ingenious little add-on will automatically click through whatever hoops necessary to get to the actual download page. Then it will extract and execute the code for the download link. This is how it bypasses those screens that force you to wait ‘X’ seconds, unless you register.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote SkipScreen’s response. They rightly pointed out that the add-on doesn’t technically bypass any screens. It just automates the process of finding a download link. The EFF also pointed out that SkipScreen does not present content from another site. MediaFire has probably just brought more attention to SkipScreen by going through with this complaint. Apparently, they’ve never heard of the Streisand Effect. So… the add-on is still available on the Mozilla site, get it here.

LOL, I guess they thought it
Submitted by Bad213Boy on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 10:27pm
LOL, I guess they thought it would be removed, NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you!
Submitted by PDeath on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 10:53am
I think I just found my new favorite add-on. Thank you MediaFire!
Not accurate at all
Submitted by dblal on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:39pm
"SkipScreen allows users to bypass the tedious wait times on sharing sites like MediaFire and Rapidshare."
"This is how it bypasses those screens that force you to wait ‘X’ seconds, unless you register."
I guess nobody checks there facts anymore. MediaFire has no wait times, download limits, or any other delays.
You can download as many files as you want at anytime. So the
discussion regarding delays, gimmicks, or hoops to download is moot.
What Skipscreen does is clicks the instantly available link for you
and then shows you a full page advertisement for SkipScreen including
their own ad. Its pretty misleading to users who think it does
something magical for them with MediaFire when in reality it does very
little but generate ad revenue for SkipScreen.
All file sharing sites deceive
Submitted by Productivity-im... on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 7:31pm
They tell you to wait because "you have just downloaded xxxMB moments ago", but in fact you did not. This little plugin carves a path through their lies.
Lets hog bandwidth!
Submitted by mattdodd3 on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 7:31pm
Lets all use this add-on and go to MediaFire and download everything we see and use all their precios bandwidth!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! -Santos
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:04pm
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
-Santos
Anything that p*sses off the ad and ad-ware companies...
Submitted by bcweir on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 8:44pm
... sounds AWESOME to me!
I've been using this addon
Submitted by Cache on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 6:10pm
I've been using this addon for awhile, and thoroughly enjoy it. Computers are there to automate mundane tasks that no human being in their right mind wants to sit through. I fast forward through the commercials on the DVR, too. Guess it's a good thing MediaFire doesn't own any television stations.
cool
Submitted by Zachary K. on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 6:03pm
i did not know about this, thank you mediafire!
Pew Pew
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 6:01pm
I'm sure the plug-in will be in other places than just FF Addons site, also, it's not like anyone likes waiting 45 seconds for a download. Pretty annoying if you ask me, and no I don't want to register either.
-Santos
Thanks for pointing this out
Submitted by comptech08 on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 5:27pm
Thanks for pointing this out Mediafire, I am going to go download skipscreen now. Never heard about it till they cried.
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