SFL is a small operation that has been going for a matter of months and caused a lot of damage. Just a few guys on a limited budget. If Manwin were fully behind it the devastation would be far worse. When the record, film, games and programming industry get behind it no file locker charging people to download pirated content will be safe. To think they are not aware of this is naive. Worse still for you will be the US Government, they can drag in Visa and MC and ask them to apply their own rules.

Stop thinking porn, Manwin and the small picture. AK has revealed your weak link. Processing is essential to pay for servers. File Lockers can't go the 100% advertising route and cater for the huge amount of traffic and BW required. Youtube, Vimeo, Pornhub, etc can squeeze down videos to make the load easier. Did you read what Kim Dotcom was paying a month for his hosting?

Now this brings up another problem, hosting companies are going to be watching this and asking themselves if a File Locker has been hit and can't pay the bill, when will they pay it. Same goes for staff. AK has opened a Pandora's Box and if you think it's not going to hurt File Lockers, you're missing the obvious.

Those that charge the uploader will be free to carry on, until they upload pirated content and get caught. Then the entire site may come crashing down. They can't follow DMCA and comply to the processors rules.

Think of how long AK has been going, the damage he's caused and this time next year. If as you imply it's a scheme to get the market reduced to 1 or 2 File Lockers, owned by 1 or 2 companies, you're fooling yourself. It leaves them open to anyone else to bring them down. By a proven method.