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EDIT, September 2013: Upon Akiba-Online's return from an extended server-changing hiatus, all of the attachments and links to Akiba pages became casualties; both elements factor heavily for this particular thread, so it was a real shame. Fortunately, I had not deleted most of the graphic images and managed to put the available ones back in, for your viewing enhancement. (And unfortunately, it was a nightmare to do so, on my end, leading to deep and sorrowful existential questions.) I took the occasion to update some other outdated links, but if I were to do so comprehensively, I may have been reading my obituary the next day. What you may wish to keep in mind is that the links leading to the Akiba-Online archives could turn up dead, but that is only because the old pages linking to the old server obviously no longer exist. So if you are looking for a film, you will probably be able to utilize the provided information and land your prize, by conducting a search in these new pages.
EDIT, July 2014: Thread INDEX, at the bottom of this post.
Stream DOWNLOADS
This thread will offer STREAM DOWNLOADS.
I hear you; you’re saying, this is the “Discussion” board, not the “Download” board. I agree. But here’s what happened. I freely offered what I call my “painless download” stream links in the DDL section, but then a moderator – a very charming one, as Akiba-Online moderators usually are – told me they are forbidden, and only allowed in the “Discussion” section.
So I threw the one that was deleted from the DDL section to this section (here it is) about a week ago, but felt uncomfortable doing so. Why? Because this is the “Discussion” section, not the “Download” section. If everyone started putting up download threads here, it would defeat the “Discussion” purpose.
Then I thought, maybe I should start one single thread for Stream Downloads only; that way, there would be no clutter in the “Discussion” section. But I was too lazy, and then I noticed Summerss broaching a similar thought days ago, and that got me cracking.
I decided then to capitalize part of the title of this thread, Stream DOWNLOADS, to signify there is something else going on here. (I know capitalizing is otherwise bad etiquette, but I figured this case called for it.)
Since I am beginning this thread, I’d like to put up two rules. (It’s good to be the king.) Those who contribute with their own stream downloads should
A) Include thumbnails. (This is an Akiba-Online rule for downloads anyway, as the moderator told me.)
B) Include your two cents about why the movie struck your fancy. Let’s learn something about the movie, in addition to the download link. After all, this is the “Discussion” thread.
Some members have broken English, given that this site especially attracts international visitors, but don’t let that stop you. Put up your thoughts anyway! And for those who know no English (meaning they would have no idea what I’m writing right here), use Google Translator, and share your thoughts in horrible English. JAV collectors who resort to Google Translator to get a better idea of the movies they are downloading (utilizing plot descriptions in Japanese) are old hands in regards to horrible English.
Okay, at this point, you can skip to the download section – you don’t need to read the rest. But for those who are interested, I wanted to give my thoughts on:
1) Why Stream Downloads are the Tops
2) DDL Dilemma with Filehosters
3) Stream Download Services
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Why Stream Downloads are the Tops
I love stream downloads. The reality is, JAV makers make their product faster than you can download them. They make my head spin, at the rate they put them out. But you can’t have potentially a thousand, or thousands of JAV movies when they are one gigabyte apiece. (Or, as is becoming more popular, two gigabytes… three gigabytes… now even four gigabytes and over.)
Four hundred to six hundred MBs for a two hour movie is quite sufficient, thank you. (And it’s not like one can’t find these in the DDL section, in the form of RMVB or MKV files, but they have become rare.) See, when you download a JAV, the odds are it’s going to be run-of-the-mill. You don’t need a super-duper version. In the rare case where a movie is spectacular and you will be visiting it time and time again, then you can justify hunting for that super-duper, Godzilla-sized HQ version.
But smaller stream downloads are blurry, in comparison, you’re going to say… I can hear you! And to this, I say, Oh come on! It’s not like you’re watching AVATAR, to get that big screen, every-minute-detail-counts effect. Just because you can’t see every gynecological skin pore in crystal clarity does not mean you’re not going to get your cork popped.
And besides, as one of Akiba-Online’s exceptionally informed members, SamKook, has specified, the folks who steal these movies to encode them no longer put love and attention to their work. He’s right. Have you downloaded a super-duper monstrosity, labeled as “HQ” only to find it’s blurry anyway?
Then there is the issue of storage. I know, I know, the ones among you with the deep pockets are now sniffing, hard drives are quite affordable, harrumph. You are not incorrect, sir. (Yet they used to be a lot cheaper before that storm in – was it Singapore? – and then the prices got jacked up. Now that the crisis has been averted, have you noticed? The prices are still up.)
But if I’m going to have a collection with movies that are 1-3 GB apiece, that means I will need a bookcase for my hard drives. I don’t want a ton of hard drives!
Hard drives are unreliable, and they can die on you. This happened to me once, with so many of my hard-gotten JAV movies disappearing up in smoke. So this means one must back up one's hard drives. And that means you’re going to have double the ridiculous number of hard drives, with the monsters in your collection.
Perhaps most importantly, there is the time factor in downloading. I know some of you have blazing fast Internet speeds, up to a megabyte per second. So you can laugh at the colossal downloads. (I am hearing you… ha ha ha. Ha ha ha!) Yet poor schnooks like me have the basic “high speed.” My top speed is about 120 kb/s. It would take me half a day to download a JAV the size of a Buick. I’m getting aged with each passing second, and I can’t normally afford that, I tell you.
Now let’s consider the advantages of a stream download, versus the filehoster downloads, by moving on to the next section:
DDL Dilemma with Filehosters
It’s not like stream downloads are trouble-free; sometimes a download gets interrupted, or the speed may not be high as usual. But these go with the territory, and occur rarely.
Yet compare with the filehosters:
1) Filehosters’ download speed are often cut down considerably for free downloaders. Stream downloads usually offer top speed.
2) No annoying CAPTCHAs to fill out
3) No waiting between downloads.
4) Usually no multi-links. Set it, and forget it.
Before 2012, one could live with the idiosyncracies of the filehosters. Fileserve, Filesonic, Wupload, Uploadstation, Filejungle, Rapidshare (which was great; no waiting between downloads, either), Netload… and especially wonderful Megaupload, as well as Mediashare… they all offered top speeds.
Many have bitten the dust, as you know.
Now the cut-down download speeds have become the rule, rather than the exception. Rapidshare is now Vapidshare. Netload is totally unworkable, at least in my area.
We should not speak ill of Ryushare, since it is helping Akiba-Online to stay afloat… but I don’t like it. The speed is slow, the idea being that you need to buy a premium account.
The problem with buying a premium account is that you then become fixed to that particular filehoster. Yet we always run into links offered by other filehosters. Unless one filehoster offers links all over the place – which is Ryushare’s strategy, of course, with the rule that uploaders must use Ryushare links – buying premium accounts become unworkable. It’s not like one can afford a wasteful slew of premium accounts.
The links that many uploaders use are Ryushare, Rapidgator, Uploaded, Bitshare and sometimes Extabit and Turbobit. (The latter being unavailable in the USA – “sorry about that.”) All of them have one thing in common – they are all slow. (Save for Bitshare, which sometimes suffers from a split personality. You never know what you’re going to get with Bitshare.)
Rapidgator is particularly sadistic. After their waiting period, if you neglect to click on the download link right away – or if you fill out a wrong CAPTCHA – then you have to wait an additional fifteen minutes. I think Rapidgator representatives could have trained the U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib.
Reptilian cousin Crocko offers its own tortures. Wait a minute-and-a-half, fill out the CAPTCHA, then sometimes… the clock starts ticking all over again. Crocko's speeds are unpredictable, although sometimes they can surprise you.
You can see how stream downloads come out smelling like a rose.
There are many other filehosters, and sometimes they offer a surprise by treating free downloaders with respect; but it’s funny how even the rinky-dink ones can be just as frustrating. They come and go, too… uploaders can’t trust them to stick around. Filerose, which used to be a sponsor of Akiba-Online and offered fine speeds the few times I've tried them, are now a relic of the past.
The best filehoster is Hotfile, with Depositfiles a close second. Uploading is also a favorite, and so is good old Mediashare. Filepost is okay, with reservations, as is Freakshare. (I’m focusing mostly on the speed issue.) Filefactory also has moments… sometimes. It’s a wonder why the ones above are not as popular with uploaders.
Stream Download Services
There used to be a golden age with stream services, just as with the filehosters. In comparison, the streamers haven’t suffered as much. (Here, I am coupling the sites that offer the streams, as well as the servers where the streamed films are stored.)
The most wonderful site on the Internet used to be porn24h.org. Practically every single JAV was made available, and in the preferred stream format, Userporn. Not long ago, the owner got greedy, took down the stream option (he claimed the streams will be back; maybe they are, but not as before), and now charges for downloads – taking immorality to the next step, directly making money off product one does not own.
Jav.hotporndl has been a welcome addition to the stream world, but I believe they have been having issues with Userporn, which is not much in use lately.
A lot of the other stream sites have consolidated. A good one used to be Dload123, but now they have substituted their Userporn links (or at least no longer make them directly accessible) and have put up a horrible logo on their offerings. They are still around, and not useless – I see they have titles that are sometimes hard to get elsewhere – but they are a shadow of their former self.
The big daddy of them all was Sexvnonline – they were great, with direct Userporn links. But now they look like many other stream sites, such as Javdict, or Sexvidx or Moviesjav. I don’t know what the behind-the-scenes story is, but some big Internet force from Vietnam, or someplace, may be operating many of them.
Porn88 is really good; they have not changed much, and still offer Userporn links, assuming the links have not been deleted. (Many entries are old and – of course - with time, the links go away.) It seems Porn88 is an offshoot of Sexvnonline, often offering the same movies (with the exception that Porn88 has not revamped their site; you can still access the Userporn links directly).
Then there is Surf2x. This one is frustrating, offering multi-links as they do. But they often feature titles hard to get elsewhere. I don’t like them, but there have been times I’ve been grateful to them. (When there is that one film you’ve just got to get, sometimes Surf2x becomes the only crummy game in town.)
Adultdailycare, I have a soft spot in my heart for. Luckily, they have not changed.
Hot-jav is another one that has been around. You can sometimes get JAV on Hot-jav that is not available elsewhere. Unfortunately, they always put that large and ugly logo on their pilfered product.
What happens is that these sites store, or link to, films that are on stream servers. Userporn is number one. You click on Userporn, you go right into the action. Their search engine is frustrating, but I love Userporn.
Xvideos, we can be grateful for Xvideos. Yet you don’t get full-length films very often on Xvideos, and many items, especially the ones worth having, get deleted fast. Then you wind up with the annoying scrolls and other things mucking up the films, that you don’t get with Userporn. A lot of manufacturers use Xvideos to advertise their wares, by putting up their useless three-minute clips. Some wise guys have lately been putting up films with commercials featuring their products at the beginning. Sleaze-ville!
Slutload is another cousin. The quality is usually poor on Slutload, but I am grateful they are around.
And then there is the new trend of stream servers, that I co-exist with unhappily. (Often identified as “VIP.”) The ones with the blue arrows/boxes, the sleazy ones that fool you into clicking something else. Then once you get them going, they load all kinds of plug-ins and who knows what else. They make me very nervous. Thank goodness for Userporn!
A lot of these new look-alike stream sites, such as Javdict and Sexvidx (the ones owned by the “Vietnamese guy,” as I am postulating) offer their mysterious stream servers. If they say “Bypass Player,” I always go with that. Sometimes they link to Userporn, but they don’t make the Userporn source evident. Once in a while they slip up, and the Userporn link source is shown, as with Moviesjav. (But only with Firefox, where I have used Add-ons to filter out the muck.)
Sometimes stream sites don’t work. For example, Javboo used to cooperate, but now has become coy. And there is a nice site called Gojav, with its own mysterious stream server, but rarely does it come through for me. I probably need to update some kind of Flash or Java or something. (See what I mean? Thank heaven for Userporn. No hassles with them.)
As with the filehosters, stream sites come and go. There were some excellent ones, such as Avsheep and Streamxxx, that have disappeared in a puff of smoke. There was a new one I wanted to share with you, one that was working fine yesterday, but now, just today, the “Blog has been removed”: Javspecial.blogspot. They offered some hard-to-get films, too.
Thank you for bearing with my winded discussion here; I felt some of you would be interested with some of the ins and outs of my experience, given all the time we spend with JAV.
Now Akiba-Online has a rule, disallowing links to “referral or affiliate sites.” I’m not sure exactly what that means. Those of you who wish to contribute to this thread may offer the link page for the crazy stream sites that do not make their sources evident; I don’t know if the moderators will have a problem with that. As I have gathered, the rule-makers seem to allow for all kinds of links on the discussion board.
As for myself, I have a preference for the “pure” source link, without the mumbo-jumbo. So I will be focusing on those, thus making the downloads as painless as possible.
On with the show.
EDIT, NOV. '13:
One criterion in the above discussion was omitted: What downloading program to use? (I figured a trip to Google would provide the answer to fellow members, but from time to time I keep getting this question.) The answer is that there are many options. My advice is to have a few on hand, as some do what others don't. Orbit Downloader comes in handy for multiple downloads, and for showing the size of files through its Grab++ tool. (Handy to judge whether a stream on the many confusing sleaze sites is in working order; sometimes you just can't get a stream to actually play.) It's good when you're not using the internet, as Orbit otherwise has a tendency to cut down on browsing speed.
I like the Download Helper add-on very much, but it does not work with recent versions of Firefox. Many browsers have stream downloading add-ons, for example Opera has "FVD Downloader," and Chrome has its own version of FVD. There is a number of choices out there, and I have tried others from time to time, such as "iWisoft Free Video Downloader" and "StreamTransport." There are also many stream download programs for YouTube, many of which no longer work. These programs come and go; look around, and you will come up with one or more to your liking.
In addition, check out this post.
EDIT (Jan. 2016): Updated Tips
EDIT, JULY '14:
Thread INDEX
(Partial, for now... too time-consuming! The "Page" reference could be unreliable.)
(Click on the numbers, they are linked.)
Page 1:
1. Assault! Bride's First and Last AV Performance Before Her Wedding! [SVDVD 202]
2. Beautiful Mature Women Lesbian Swapping Party [JUC 608]
3. Hellish Sexual Nursing Tale - Pitiful Daughter-in-Law Assault [TGA 002]
4. Sex Circle Activity [OKAD 334]
5. Two with Ran Natsuki
6. Stepmother, Truly Always Better Than the Wife
7. Insults Added to the Widow’s Injuries
8. Mother and Daughter AV Audition
10. Mother Who Gets Violated in Front of Her Son By His Friends
11. Big Nasty Three Sisters [JUKD 385]
12. Broken By a Former Student 8 Years Later - Wife Made a Bitch Given An Enema
13. Embarrassment! Women in public offered cash to try Love Machine
14. Superheroines
15. Black Stockings Nakadashi Office Ladies
16. Pretended to Get On a Blond-Haired Commuter Bus By Mistake
17. Masochistic Secretary Of Complete Obedience
18. Rough Sex JAV (Masochism Drug & Hellish Thrust)
Page 2:
19. Mika Osawa
20. Yuka Osawa (Erii Akira)
21. Watching AV Gets Viewer Turned On
22. Tight Gym Shorts
23. Bow-Legged Train Molestation
24. Mother Who Works For A Detective Agency
25. Bullying Female Neighbors
26. Pigtailed Devils
27. My Drunkard Friend and His Wife
Page 3:
28. Penis Erection in Public
29. Orphan Girl – The Treatment for Sexual Desire
30. MADONNA Hodgepodge
31. Pretty Blonde Kidnapped! - r*** Case File [STC 002]
32. Bamboo Flute Teacher [DV 1421]
33. Ryoko Murakami - [DOJ 007]
34. JAV = 1, U.S. PORN = 0
35. Make My Anus Bloom Wildly
36. [NTRD-025] & [JUC 951]
37. High-Handed Female Teacher
38. Drug Investigator - Vaginal Convulsions
39. Reiko Nakamori
Page 4:
40. Saori Hara's "STAR" Cinema
41. Two Hapless and Harassed Hootered Honeys
42. Targets Mother-in-Law's Big Hooters [GG 172]
43. The Swimming Pool
44. Extreme Special Molestation OK Girl in LA [NHDT 863]
45. Letting Loose with Ladies Providing Service
46. Stepmother and Son - Elemental Nakadashi Climax [FUTD 046]
47. Bunk Bed Sisters
48. Lez Miserables - Lesbian Battle
EDIT,
May 1915: Obviously, the page designations now mean diddly-squat, given the later Akiba-Online changeover; continuing with the Index:
49. Emiko Koike (Also this later post)
50. r***ing Each Day – Regretting A Climax
51. Dirty Mother & Lazy Son Torture Recording
52. Amateur Couples Games, Losers Surrendering Wives/GFs
53. r***ing President's Wives
54. Remarried With a Bitch and Rendered a Spiteful Daughter My Toy
55. Foreign Guy Takes Mother and Daughter, Secret Fuck M and D
56. Cherry Boy Getting Laid For the First Time by Big Breasts Wife
57. Convenience Bike Inconvenience
58. Minor Ameri Ichinose Celebration
59. Lez Miserabling Again
60. Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! (Abused Educators)
61. One Exploited College Girl (Rec Case)
62. Lady Will Tell a Lie While Being Done & Phone-Talking to BF
63. Forbidden Assault - I Am My Son's Carnal Slave
64. Lady Teachers Throw Themselves at Students
65. CROSS in the Cross Hairs (CRPD- Movies)
66. "Fallen President" flicks (Misaki Shiraishi & Reiko Kawamoto)
67. Some SPRDs of TAKARA-VISUAL
68. I Love Satsuki Kirioka!
69. Stepmother, Truly Always Better Than the Wife - REVISITED
70. Couples Seeking 1,000,000 Yen ! Figure Out BF's Dick Game
71. Couple of Other Couples' Games
72. Lez Miserables Part III: Lesbians Go DEEP'S
73. DVDES-289
74. Shoko Yokoyama
75. Addendum for Lez Miserables
76. Violated by Grotesque Men
77. Friend's Mother (HTHDs; also, Brute Force Pleasure!)
78. TENTACLES
79. Employed Lady File
80. TALL
81. Forced Upon By the Husband's Coworker
82. Reika Saijo, Asami Yuuki
83. Kyoko Ono (Also: Lesbian Molester Chikan in Beach Houses)
84. Humiliating Nudity in Front of a Group
85. Uninspired Regular Porn Potpourri
86. Wife Forced to Strip For the Neighborhood Association
87. Jabberwocky of JAV
88. Little Continuation of Jabberwocky
89. MADONNA Mini-Mixed Bag
EDIT,
July 1916: Continuing with the Index:
090. Cell Videos Taken of a University Student That Are Getting Posted
091. Revisiting Pigtailed Devils
092. Taboo Japanese Style
093. Wife Taken by Boss
094. Coercion Suite Room
095. Madcap's Covers of Widow Movies
096. Widow Who Loved Her Stepson [JUX-240]
097. Housewife and Underwear Thief
098. Female Teacher Having a Countenance of Indifference
098. Bad Janitors
099. I Wanna Fuck My Friend's Mature Mother [DDB-050]
100. Married Woman Talking Dirty Eros - Wives Deceived [NXG-143]
101. Charismatic MILF Counselor Who Rehabilitates the Socially Withdrawn
102. Aggressive Teacher or Victimized Teacher?
103. Married Woman's Sex Slave Contract
104. Misa Arisawa
105. Exhibitionists
106. Mother-in-Law and Aunt -- Forbidden Exquisite Nakadashi Relations
107. Sensitive Young Lady Who Can’t Let Her Voice Out in the Library
108. Voluptuous Beautiful Wife and r**ist Burglar [HBAD-102]
109. Big Tits Saleswomen Sisters: Lesbian Confinement Cumming [CRPD-294]
110. Hospital at Which Fucking is Done With the Night Shift Nurse
111. Apartment Complex Wife’s Misery
112. Best Feeling Sex By Way Of Genuine Yoga Female Practitioner's Excellent Toning For Good Pussy [HAVD-424]
113. Second Offender Pervert
114. Punishment of 100 Spankings [NHDT-923]
115. A JAV remake - Female Teacher Kyoko
116. Pervert Dad With Daughter-in-Law
117. Infiltrating Investigator, To the Point of Falling [ATID-180],
118. Cream Pie Perverts
119. Violated New Teacher [HBAD-186]
120. Three Slave Island Movies
121. Julia 8 Hours Best [MIBD-565]
122. Female Boss Haruna Snatching Lesbian Pick-Up! [DVDES-408]
123. In Front of the Husband!! Embarrassed Married Woman As Naked Sketch Model
124. Pregnant Pauses
125. Beautiful Wife Who Fell to Anal
126. Salesladies Who Have an Ace Up Their Holes
127. Foreign Heroine
128. Shoplifting Young Ladies 4 [BKSP-142]
129. One Director's ATTACKERS Movies
130. Younger Sister Sadly Used For Sex [RBD-426]
131. Sun Soldier Red Flora [ZARD-57]
132. DUMB LUCK DICK!
133. Homeless People Vs. Nozomi Hazuki [DVDES-469]
134. Lesbian Training Bride Mother-in-Law Edition [IESP-560]
135. Fairy Tales Can Come True!
136. Forced Family Members
137. Continually r***ing By My Husband's Boss For 7 Days, I Lost My Mind...
138. Mother Apologizes For Shoplifting Son [NHDTA-077]
140. Sci-Fi from 2005
141. Conservative And Plain Girl Turn Into A Slut? [YRMN-001
142. Kaori Saejima
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EDIT, September 2013: Upon Akiba-Online's return from an extended server-changing hiatus, all of the attachments and links to Akiba pages became casualties; both elements factor heavily for this particular thread, so it was a real shame. Fortunately, I had not deleted most of the graphic images and managed to put the available ones back in, for your viewing enhancement. (And unfortunately, it was a nightmare to do so, on my end, leading to deep and sorrowful existential questions.) I took the occasion to update some other outdated links, but if I were to do so comprehensively, I may have been reading my obituary the next day. What you may wish to keep in mind is that the links leading to the Akiba-Online archives could turn up dead, but that is only because the old pages linking to the old server obviously no longer exist. So if you are looking for a film, you will probably be able to utilize the provided information and land your prize, by conducting a search in these new pages.
EDIT, July 2014: Thread INDEX, at the bottom of this post.
Stream DOWNLOADS
This thread will offer STREAM DOWNLOADS.
I hear you; you’re saying, this is the “Discussion” board, not the “Download” board. I agree. But here’s what happened. I freely offered what I call my “painless download” stream links in the DDL section, but then a moderator – a very charming one, as Akiba-Online moderators usually are – told me they are forbidden, and only allowed in the “Discussion” section.
So I threw the one that was deleted from the DDL section to this section (here it is) about a week ago, but felt uncomfortable doing so. Why? Because this is the “Discussion” section, not the “Download” section. If everyone started putting up download threads here, it would defeat the “Discussion” purpose.
Then I thought, maybe I should start one single thread for Stream Downloads only; that way, there would be no clutter in the “Discussion” section. But I was too lazy, and then I noticed Summerss broaching a similar thought days ago, and that got me cracking.
I decided then to capitalize part of the title of this thread, Stream DOWNLOADS, to signify there is something else going on here. (I know capitalizing is otherwise bad etiquette, but I figured this case called for it.)
Since I am beginning this thread, I’d like to put up two rules. (It’s good to be the king.) Those who contribute with their own stream downloads should
A) Include thumbnails. (This is an Akiba-Online rule for downloads anyway, as the moderator told me.)
B) Include your two cents about why the movie struck your fancy. Let’s learn something about the movie, in addition to the download link. After all, this is the “Discussion” thread.
Some members have broken English, given that this site especially attracts international visitors, but don’t let that stop you. Put up your thoughts anyway! And for those who know no English (meaning they would have no idea what I’m writing right here), use Google Translator, and share your thoughts in horrible English. JAV collectors who resort to Google Translator to get a better idea of the movies they are downloading (utilizing plot descriptions in Japanese) are old hands in regards to horrible English.
Okay, at this point, you can skip to the download section – you don’t need to read the rest. But for those who are interested, I wanted to give my thoughts on:
1) Why Stream Downloads are the Tops
2) DDL Dilemma with Filehosters
3) Stream Download Services
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Why Stream Downloads are the Tops
I love stream downloads. The reality is, JAV makers make their product faster than you can download them. They make my head spin, at the rate they put them out. But you can’t have potentially a thousand, or thousands of JAV movies when they are one gigabyte apiece. (Or, as is becoming more popular, two gigabytes… three gigabytes… now even four gigabytes and over.)
Four hundred to six hundred MBs for a two hour movie is quite sufficient, thank you. (And it’s not like one can’t find these in the DDL section, in the form of RMVB or MKV files, but they have become rare.) See, when you download a JAV, the odds are it’s going to be run-of-the-mill. You don’t need a super-duper version. In the rare case where a movie is spectacular and you will be visiting it time and time again, then you can justify hunting for that super-duper, Godzilla-sized HQ version.
But smaller stream downloads are blurry, in comparison, you’re going to say… I can hear you! And to this, I say, Oh come on! It’s not like you’re watching AVATAR, to get that big screen, every-minute-detail-counts effect. Just because you can’t see every gynecological skin pore in crystal clarity does not mean you’re not going to get your cork popped.
And besides, as one of Akiba-Online’s exceptionally informed members, SamKook, has specified, the folks who steal these movies to encode them no longer put love and attention to their work. He’s right. Have you downloaded a super-duper monstrosity, labeled as “HQ” only to find it’s blurry anyway?
Then there is the issue of storage. I know, I know, the ones among you with the deep pockets are now sniffing, hard drives are quite affordable, harrumph. You are not incorrect, sir. (Yet they used to be a lot cheaper before that storm in – was it Singapore? – and then the prices got jacked up. Now that the crisis has been averted, have you noticed? The prices are still up.)
But if I’m going to have a collection with movies that are 1-3 GB apiece, that means I will need a bookcase for my hard drives. I don’t want a ton of hard drives!
Hard drives are unreliable, and they can die on you. This happened to me once, with so many of my hard-gotten JAV movies disappearing up in smoke. So this means one must back up one's hard drives. And that means you’re going to have double the ridiculous number of hard drives, with the monsters in your collection.
Perhaps most importantly, there is the time factor in downloading. I know some of you have blazing fast Internet speeds, up to a megabyte per second. So you can laugh at the colossal downloads. (I am hearing you… ha ha ha. Ha ha ha!) Yet poor schnooks like me have the basic “high speed.” My top speed is about 120 kb/s. It would take me half a day to download a JAV the size of a Buick. I’m getting aged with each passing second, and I can’t normally afford that, I tell you.
Now let’s consider the advantages of a stream download, versus the filehoster downloads, by moving on to the next section:
DDL Dilemma with Filehosters
It’s not like stream downloads are trouble-free; sometimes a download gets interrupted, or the speed may not be high as usual. But these go with the territory, and occur rarely.
Yet compare with the filehosters:
1) Filehosters’ download speed are often cut down considerably for free downloaders. Stream downloads usually offer top speed.
2) No annoying CAPTCHAs to fill out
3) No waiting between downloads.
4) Usually no multi-links. Set it, and forget it.
Before 2012, one could live with the idiosyncracies of the filehosters. Fileserve, Filesonic, Wupload, Uploadstation, Filejungle, Rapidshare (which was great; no waiting between downloads, either), Netload… and especially wonderful Megaupload, as well as Mediashare… they all offered top speeds.
Many have bitten the dust, as you know.
Now the cut-down download speeds have become the rule, rather than the exception. Rapidshare is now Vapidshare. Netload is totally unworkable, at least in my area.
We should not speak ill of Ryushare, since it is helping Akiba-Online to stay afloat… but I don’t like it. The speed is slow, the idea being that you need to buy a premium account.
The problem with buying a premium account is that you then become fixed to that particular filehoster. Yet we always run into links offered by other filehosters. Unless one filehoster offers links all over the place – which is Ryushare’s strategy, of course, with the rule that uploaders must use Ryushare links – buying premium accounts become unworkable. It’s not like one can afford a wasteful slew of premium accounts.
The links that many uploaders use are Ryushare, Rapidgator, Uploaded, Bitshare and sometimes Extabit and Turbobit. (The latter being unavailable in the USA – “sorry about that.”) All of them have one thing in common – they are all slow. (Save for Bitshare, which sometimes suffers from a split personality. You never know what you’re going to get with Bitshare.)
Rapidgator is particularly sadistic. After their waiting period, if you neglect to click on the download link right away – or if you fill out a wrong CAPTCHA – then you have to wait an additional fifteen minutes. I think Rapidgator representatives could have trained the U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib.
Reptilian cousin Crocko offers its own tortures. Wait a minute-and-a-half, fill out the CAPTCHA, then sometimes… the clock starts ticking all over again. Crocko's speeds are unpredictable, although sometimes they can surprise you.
You can see how stream downloads come out smelling like a rose.
There are many other filehosters, and sometimes they offer a surprise by treating free downloaders with respect; but it’s funny how even the rinky-dink ones can be just as frustrating. They come and go, too… uploaders can’t trust them to stick around. Filerose, which used to be a sponsor of Akiba-Online and offered fine speeds the few times I've tried them, are now a relic of the past.
The best filehoster is Hotfile, with Depositfiles a close second. Uploading is also a favorite, and so is good old Mediashare. Filepost is okay, with reservations, as is Freakshare. (I’m focusing mostly on the speed issue.) Filefactory also has moments… sometimes. It’s a wonder why the ones above are not as popular with uploaders.
Stream Download Services
There used to be a golden age with stream services, just as with the filehosters. In comparison, the streamers haven’t suffered as much. (Here, I am coupling the sites that offer the streams, as well as the servers where the streamed films are stored.)
The most wonderful site on the Internet used to be porn24h.org. Practically every single JAV was made available, and in the preferred stream format, Userporn. Not long ago, the owner got greedy, took down the stream option (he claimed the streams will be back; maybe they are, but not as before), and now charges for downloads – taking immorality to the next step, directly making money off product one does not own.
Jav.hotporndl has been a welcome addition to the stream world, but I believe they have been having issues with Userporn, which is not much in use lately.
A lot of the other stream sites have consolidated. A good one used to be Dload123, but now they have substituted their Userporn links (or at least no longer make them directly accessible) and have put up a horrible logo on their offerings. They are still around, and not useless – I see they have titles that are sometimes hard to get elsewhere – but they are a shadow of their former self.
The big daddy of them all was Sexvnonline – they were great, with direct Userporn links. But now they look like many other stream sites, such as Javdict, or Sexvidx or Moviesjav. I don’t know what the behind-the-scenes story is, but some big Internet force from Vietnam, or someplace, may be operating many of them.
Porn88 is really good; they have not changed much, and still offer Userporn links, assuming the links have not been deleted. (Many entries are old and – of course - with time, the links go away.) It seems Porn88 is an offshoot of Sexvnonline, often offering the same movies (with the exception that Porn88 has not revamped their site; you can still access the Userporn links directly).
Then there is Surf2x. This one is frustrating, offering multi-links as they do. But they often feature titles hard to get elsewhere. I don’t like them, but there have been times I’ve been grateful to them. (When there is that one film you’ve just got to get, sometimes Surf2x becomes the only crummy game in town.)
Adultdailycare, I have a soft spot in my heart for. Luckily, they have not changed.
Hot-jav is another one that has been around. You can sometimes get JAV on Hot-jav that is not available elsewhere. Unfortunately, they always put that large and ugly logo on their pilfered product.
What happens is that these sites store, or link to, films that are on stream servers. Userporn is number one. You click on Userporn, you go right into the action. Their search engine is frustrating, but I love Userporn.
Xvideos, we can be grateful for Xvideos. Yet you don’t get full-length films very often on Xvideos, and many items, especially the ones worth having, get deleted fast. Then you wind up with the annoying scrolls and other things mucking up the films, that you don’t get with Userporn. A lot of manufacturers use Xvideos to advertise their wares, by putting up their useless three-minute clips. Some wise guys have lately been putting up films with commercials featuring their products at the beginning. Sleaze-ville!
Slutload is another cousin. The quality is usually poor on Slutload, but I am grateful they are around.
And then there is the new trend of stream servers, that I co-exist with unhappily. (Often identified as “VIP.”) The ones with the blue arrows/boxes, the sleazy ones that fool you into clicking something else. Then once you get them going, they load all kinds of plug-ins and who knows what else. They make me very nervous. Thank goodness for Userporn!
A lot of these new look-alike stream sites, such as Javdict and Sexvidx (the ones owned by the “Vietnamese guy,” as I am postulating) offer their mysterious stream servers. If they say “Bypass Player,” I always go with that. Sometimes they link to Userporn, but they don’t make the Userporn source evident. Once in a while they slip up, and the Userporn link source is shown, as with Moviesjav. (But only with Firefox, where I have used Add-ons to filter out the muck.)
Sometimes stream sites don’t work. For example, Javboo used to cooperate, but now has become coy. And there is a nice site called Gojav, with its own mysterious stream server, but rarely does it come through for me. I probably need to update some kind of Flash or Java or something. (See what I mean? Thank heaven for Userporn. No hassles with them.)
As with the filehosters, stream sites come and go. There were some excellent ones, such as Avsheep and Streamxxx, that have disappeared in a puff of smoke. There was a new one I wanted to share with you, one that was working fine yesterday, but now, just today, the “Blog has been removed”: Javspecial.blogspot. They offered some hard-to-get films, too.
Thank you for bearing with my winded discussion here; I felt some of you would be interested with some of the ins and outs of my experience, given all the time we spend with JAV.
Now Akiba-Online has a rule, disallowing links to “referral or affiliate sites.” I’m not sure exactly what that means. Those of you who wish to contribute to this thread may offer the link page for the crazy stream sites that do not make their sources evident; I don’t know if the moderators will have a problem with that. As I have gathered, the rule-makers seem to allow for all kinds of links on the discussion board.
As for myself, I have a preference for the “pure” source link, without the mumbo-jumbo. So I will be focusing on those, thus making the downloads as painless as possible.
On with the show.
EDIT, NOV. '13:
One criterion in the above discussion was omitted: What downloading program to use? (I figured a trip to Google would provide the answer to fellow members, but from time to time I keep getting this question.) The answer is that there are many options. My advice is to have a few on hand, as some do what others don't. Orbit Downloader comes in handy for multiple downloads, and for showing the size of files through its Grab++ tool. (Handy to judge whether a stream on the many confusing sleaze sites is in working order; sometimes you just can't get a stream to actually play.) It's good when you're not using the internet, as Orbit otherwise has a tendency to cut down on browsing speed.
I like the Download Helper add-on very much, but it does not work with recent versions of Firefox. Many browsers have stream downloading add-ons, for example Opera has "FVD Downloader," and Chrome has its own version of FVD. There is a number of choices out there, and I have tried others from time to time, such as "iWisoft Free Video Downloader" and "StreamTransport." There are also many stream download programs for YouTube, many of which no longer work. These programs come and go; look around, and you will come up with one or more to your liking.
In addition, check out this post.
EDIT (Jan. 2016): Updated Tips
EDIT, JULY '14:
Thread INDEX
(Partial, for now... too time-consuming! The "Page" reference could be unreliable.)
(Click on the numbers, they are linked.)
Page 1:
1. Assault! Bride's First and Last AV Performance Before Her Wedding! [SVDVD 202]
2. Beautiful Mature Women Lesbian Swapping Party [JUC 608]
3. Hellish Sexual Nursing Tale - Pitiful Daughter-in-Law Assault [TGA 002]
4. Sex Circle Activity [OKAD 334]
5. Two with Ran Natsuki
6. Stepmother, Truly Always Better Than the Wife
7. Insults Added to the Widow’s Injuries
8. Mother and Daughter AV Audition
10. Mother Who Gets Violated in Front of Her Son By His Friends
11. Big Nasty Three Sisters [JUKD 385]
12. Broken By a Former Student 8 Years Later - Wife Made a Bitch Given An Enema
13. Embarrassment! Women in public offered cash to try Love Machine
14. Superheroines
15. Black Stockings Nakadashi Office Ladies
16. Pretended to Get On a Blond-Haired Commuter Bus By Mistake
17. Masochistic Secretary Of Complete Obedience
18. Rough Sex JAV (Masochism Drug & Hellish Thrust)
Page 2:
19. Mika Osawa
20. Yuka Osawa (Erii Akira)
21. Watching AV Gets Viewer Turned On
22. Tight Gym Shorts
23. Bow-Legged Train Molestation
24. Mother Who Works For A Detective Agency
25. Bullying Female Neighbors
26. Pigtailed Devils
27. My Drunkard Friend and His Wife
Page 3:
28. Penis Erection in Public
29. Orphan Girl – The Treatment for Sexual Desire
30. MADONNA Hodgepodge
31. Pretty Blonde Kidnapped! - r*** Case File [STC 002]
32. Bamboo Flute Teacher [DV 1421]
33. Ryoko Murakami - [DOJ 007]
34. JAV = 1, U.S. PORN = 0
35. Make My Anus Bloom Wildly
36. [NTRD-025] & [JUC 951]
37. High-Handed Female Teacher
38. Drug Investigator - Vaginal Convulsions
39. Reiko Nakamori
Page 4:
40. Saori Hara's "STAR" Cinema
41. Two Hapless and Harassed Hootered Honeys
42. Targets Mother-in-Law's Big Hooters [GG 172]
43. The Swimming Pool
44. Extreme Special Molestation OK Girl in LA [NHDT 863]
45. Letting Loose with Ladies Providing Service
46. Stepmother and Son - Elemental Nakadashi Climax [FUTD 046]
47. Bunk Bed Sisters
48. Lez Miserables - Lesbian Battle
EDIT,
May 1915: Obviously, the page designations now mean diddly-squat, given the later Akiba-Online changeover; continuing with the Index:
49. Emiko Koike (Also this later post)
50. r***ing Each Day – Regretting A Climax
51. Dirty Mother & Lazy Son Torture Recording
52. Amateur Couples Games, Losers Surrendering Wives/GFs
53. r***ing President's Wives
54. Remarried With a Bitch and Rendered a Spiteful Daughter My Toy
55. Foreign Guy Takes Mother and Daughter, Secret Fuck M and D
56. Cherry Boy Getting Laid For the First Time by Big Breasts Wife
57. Convenience Bike Inconvenience
58. Minor Ameri Ichinose Celebration
59. Lez Miserabling Again
60. Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! (Abused Educators)
61. One Exploited College Girl (Rec Case)
62. Lady Will Tell a Lie While Being Done & Phone-Talking to BF
63. Forbidden Assault - I Am My Son's Carnal Slave
64. Lady Teachers Throw Themselves at Students
65. CROSS in the Cross Hairs (CRPD- Movies)
66. "Fallen President" flicks (Misaki Shiraishi & Reiko Kawamoto)
67. Some SPRDs of TAKARA-VISUAL
68. I Love Satsuki Kirioka!
69. Stepmother, Truly Always Better Than the Wife - REVISITED
70. Couples Seeking 1,000,000 Yen ! Figure Out BF's Dick Game
71. Couple of Other Couples' Games
72. Lez Miserables Part III: Lesbians Go DEEP'S
73. DVDES-289
74. Shoko Yokoyama
75. Addendum for Lez Miserables
76. Violated by Grotesque Men
77. Friend's Mother (HTHDs; also, Brute Force Pleasure!)
78. TENTACLES
79. Employed Lady File
80. TALL
81. Forced Upon By the Husband's Coworker
82. Reika Saijo, Asami Yuuki
83. Kyoko Ono (Also: Lesbian Molester Chikan in Beach Houses)
84. Humiliating Nudity in Front of a Group
85. Uninspired Regular Porn Potpourri
86. Wife Forced to Strip For the Neighborhood Association
87. Jabberwocky of JAV
88. Little Continuation of Jabberwocky
89. MADONNA Mini-Mixed Bag
EDIT,
July 1916: Continuing with the Index:
090. Cell Videos Taken of a University Student That Are Getting Posted
091. Revisiting Pigtailed Devils
092. Taboo Japanese Style
093. Wife Taken by Boss
094. Coercion Suite Room
095. Madcap's Covers of Widow Movies
096. Widow Who Loved Her Stepson [JUX-240]
097. Housewife and Underwear Thief
098. Female Teacher Having a Countenance of Indifference
098. Bad Janitors
099. I Wanna Fuck My Friend's Mature Mother [DDB-050]
100. Married Woman Talking Dirty Eros - Wives Deceived [NXG-143]
101. Charismatic MILF Counselor Who Rehabilitates the Socially Withdrawn
102. Aggressive Teacher or Victimized Teacher?
103. Married Woman's Sex Slave Contract
104. Misa Arisawa
105. Exhibitionists
106. Mother-in-Law and Aunt -- Forbidden Exquisite Nakadashi Relations
107. Sensitive Young Lady Who Can’t Let Her Voice Out in the Library
108. Voluptuous Beautiful Wife and r**ist Burglar [HBAD-102]
109. Big Tits Saleswomen Sisters: Lesbian Confinement Cumming [CRPD-294]
110. Hospital at Which Fucking is Done With the Night Shift Nurse
111. Apartment Complex Wife’s Misery
112. Best Feeling Sex By Way Of Genuine Yoga Female Practitioner's Excellent Toning For Good Pussy [HAVD-424]
113. Second Offender Pervert
114. Punishment of 100 Spankings [NHDT-923]
115. A JAV remake - Female Teacher Kyoko
116. Pervert Dad With Daughter-in-Law
117. Infiltrating Investigator, To the Point of Falling [ATID-180],
118. Cream Pie Perverts
119. Violated New Teacher [HBAD-186]
120. Three Slave Island Movies
121. Julia 8 Hours Best [MIBD-565]
122. Female Boss Haruna Snatching Lesbian Pick-Up! [DVDES-408]
123. In Front of the Husband!! Embarrassed Married Woman As Naked Sketch Model
124. Pregnant Pauses
125. Beautiful Wife Who Fell to Anal
126. Salesladies Who Have an Ace Up Their Holes
127. Foreign Heroine
128. Shoplifting Young Ladies 4 [BKSP-142]
129. One Director's ATTACKERS Movies
130. Younger Sister Sadly Used For Sex [RBD-426]
131. Sun Soldier Red Flora [ZARD-57]
132. DUMB LUCK DICK!
133. Homeless People Vs. Nozomi Hazuki [DVDES-469]
134. Lesbian Training Bride Mother-in-Law Edition [IESP-560]
135. Fairy Tales Can Come True!
136. Forced Family Members
137. Continually r***ing By My Husband's Boss For 7 Days, I Lost My Mind...
138. Mother Apologizes For Shoplifting Son [NHDTA-077]
140. Sci-Fi from 2005
141. Conservative And Plain Girl Turn Into A Slut? [YRMN-001
142. Kaori Saejima
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