Filed under: Business, Internet
It's hard to pay the bills with ads: PipeBytes charges for file transfers now
At launch the service was completely advertising supported. But a funny thing happened when we went to try it again the other night. We noticed our file transfer was going extraordinarily slowly. Like 128Kbps slow.
It turns out PipeByes has decided that playing YouTube videos with advertisements wasn't paying the bills and the service is capping your upload/download speeds unless you pay for faster service. We suppose that's fair enough, and $0.99 for a one day speed pass that bumps your transfer speeds up to 1.5Mbps seems reasonable. But we can't imagine why anyone would pay $19.99 a month when they could set up an FTP server for free.
Our prediction: PipeBytes will either have to increase its 128Kbps cap on free transfers to attract more regular users or the service will ride off into obscurity.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
