I'm always a skeptic of those dl sites. You never know what they're up to or what they set shit at. Your at their mercy and control. Those places are simply just another extension of the multiple methods of dl'ing available I find. They all have some stuff others don't. So combine all the methods and enjoy.
Ok, but my friend with cable doesn't have problems with hotfile. I'll double check by letting him use my account to download something during throttle hours. And I do combine methods. I also have usenet (bought by GB downloaded and not time), and torrents if I really want a file that isn't available anywhere else.