User from GFY tries to take down file hosts. Not with a DMCA, but...

[bouabdellah]

they even got rid of mediafire.com paypal

Yes if even mediafire is banned by paypal , all filehost will be ban too. (Rapidshare for example). But is it really paypal which ban mediafire or the contrary? Same question for depositfiles....

[Ransaap]

I believe Mediafire ditched PP as processor, not the other way around. Don't know about DepositFiles though...

[hakmarrje]

GFY down lol
Whoever is hammering them is doing a great job

[Kirk Lazarus]

GFY down lol
Whoever is hammering them is doing a great job

Lasted a whole 15 minutes woooo how will they ever recover...

[Kw3rLn]

1301 filelockers down!

[VuVu]

This really hits near and dear to me. I started up when depositfiles ppd system came out at $7 per 1k downloads (compared to now...you make alot more) Was going good and strong for a couple years then a guy similar to this who had his own porn sites of the same genre on GFY or some other porn webmaster forum hell I forget which. To some it up, he basically sent masses and masses of false DMCA complaints to megarotic and depositfiles. He would claim a certain company who sold the DVD's in the US only had full ALL the rights to the content. I ended up contacting the said company who did make the content (was Japanese based) and they flat out said it was bullshit and were fine with it being uploaded to megarotics steaming WITH a link to the page where the content could of legally been bought. They did not want the depositfiles links and I was good with that. But this guy wouldn't stop. When the content would be removed he would go into the sites chatbox and tell people that HIS site still had the same content.

In the end this guy was sending around twenty harassing emails a day and a site I posted on who was facing a similar issue pretty much ratted me out by giving up my IP and information from private chats with the admin at the time. It was a fun ride that's for sure...

[filerking]

Even if they do manage to shut down processing for filelockers, the adult business will not magically increase their sales and conversions. Their heads are in the clouds if they think that. Filesharing is here to stay. If they put their content online, expect it to be copied, and shared everywhere. That's just how it is these days. IMHO the OP of that link at GFY is the one who uploaded files with names of CP, and all the other webmasters there who havent had a sale or a conversion for AFF in a while have all uploaded those files.. If you look at the screenshots there are files with every single word associated with CP.. that's some funny shit..

Just sayin

But!!! It will stop pirates making money.

When mainstream industries see the hole in your piracy is money, your all gone. If this is what one guy in porn can do, think what the Music, film and programming industries can do with lobbyists? They will be into Visa, MC and big dogs chopping processing for pirates. If a site uses a banned word it often breaks the terms of the payment processors. Just having the word CP Lolita, preteen, young teen. Can get a site canned. Whether it's pirated or not. Maybe you can break other rules and laws, the processors rules arent so easy to break and get away withit. there will always be usenet for sharing.

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Uploaders upload to infringe copyright because they can make money out of nothing, downloaders download to support copyright infringement because it's free. As far as there are downloaders, uploaders ain't gonna stop uploading. This is the fact and nothing can change that unless someone shut down the entire Internet.

It will remove one part the paid servers to host everything. no money, no servers.

[VuVu]

@filerking

The big problem here is, he isn't doing this correctly. He is just sending out tons and tons of false information which has already been proven that him and his team upload the copyrighted material themselves and send the links to paypal. Look at megaupload and how many people lost their family photos, personal videos etc. Yes megaupload removed there PPD system but it was still very active when it was alive.

This guy used to run a underage porn site and people think he's credible? He's being funded by a company that runs tube sites which are most likely 99.9% copyrighted material. The problem they have is when people use PPD the TUBE sites loose money. When the copyrighted material is on their tube sites they MAKE money from ads. Alot of videos on these tube sites are mini previews with links to blogs or sites that contain PPD links. They want the copyrighted material on their tube sites so they can take the money from the PPD users and keep it themselves.

Look at it this way, they are running a legal form of prostitution. If the camera wasn't there that's how the police would view it. Look at bangbus, they would pick up random women and pay to have sex with them...It's all bull that's going on.

To toss this in the mix as well, what about hosting companies like Softlayer or Rackspace. A slight number of people probably use their hosting to host private warez links or straight FTP downloads. Should they loose there payment processors? No. If the REAL rights holders would start hiring people to find links of copyrighted material and used the DMCA process which is established I'm sure the file lockers would be more then happy to remove the files from their servers.

my2cents.

[filerking]

It really doesn't matter if he uploads the material. It's there on the servers and with links to DL it and often with text links that are clearly against the terms the merchant agreed with the processor. You and I know that the piracy isn't anything new and isn't 100% uploaded by this guy. so lets not delude ourselves.
Kim Dotcom wasn't spending millions on servers for peoples family photos, personal videos etc, he earned it from piracy. No one shares theirfamily photos, personal videos etc with 1,000s of people, no one goes onto forums to promote sharing of their family photos, personal videos etc.
Tubes make money from ads, they can't have their billing withdrawn, so it would need a mighty law to bring them down and piracy would go as well. If that law came into place, the big tubes would love it. Mini previews are put up by the owners of the content. Go figure why.
Bangbus never picked up random women, no one with a brain tries that in porn. Think a bit more why.
Why should the rights owners have to hire people to go around in circle, easier, cheaper and far more effective to attack the money flow.
Not sure who you are but you obviously aren't clued up on this.

[VuVu]

Lol, clued in Oh boy that really did make me laugh. Your getting awfully defensive for a forum.
Firstly, I never said 100% of this content is by him and his people. It's just been proven that he is responsible for the is sending in the emails to payment processors.

Secondly, your argument that these "file lockers" should of let the information get there in the first place. If you sell a blank dvd to someone and they decide to burn a copyrighted material are you going to run out and get memorex sued for that? They offer a service and reply to take down notices. You don't really seem to get that by the looks of it.

Third, I'm pretty sure I would be able to find message boards of people who might want to share family videos of their holidays and such. It's not unheard of nor is it rare. You do realize we live in a world where it's easier in some parts to upload photos to a nice little .zip / .rar archive then mail a copy out to all the family members. Who knows you could have a very large family. Sending a link in a email sure beats having to cost yourself an extra expense to make them all copies. Have you heard of a thing called YouTube? Yeah, people make personal videos and share them on forums all the time. Crazy shit ain't it?

Four, Tubes are making money from copyrighted material. You don't really seem to understand that. Anyone can upload a video to a tube site not just rights holders. By your logic that content should of never have even been able to get on the tubes servers. If I went and looked I bet easily 60% of the mini previews I would find go to blogs filled with DDL/PPD links. Why should that be allowed? Why should they be allowed to make money off it but others cannot? That's not really fair now is it.

Five, You really think pretty girls wanna have sex with a bunch of old men and have it filmed and distributed for free? Lmao...come on now. If you were clued up on this you would of known about the cases brought up on bangbros in the early days before they started getting them to sign contracts. I could bring up other arguments on this but why waste time getting to the point?

Six, if right owners care about there work they will hire people to hunt down piracy. It's just a necessity in this day and age. You're coming across that people only upload to make money? What about torrenting? What about FTP Dumps? What about top sites? The Scene? - Who's been as you say "pirating" since the 1970's.

Your ignorance to the idea is what I would expect of a forty year old with a raging boner and no money. I'll touch on your not clued in thing for a sec, I've been doing this far to long. Alot of you said pirating would end when KaaZa went defunct, some said Napster. There is and will be no end of it. I've seen every step that's been taken and it's all failed. If someone pirates your work don't get mad, be happy that someone out there finds your work enjoyable and wants to share it with others. Keep producing content that makes people want to see it. Real fans buy and support artists/film-makers/programmers who produce quality stuff. There are many studies that have shown that piracy helps get artists heard. It makes us evolve.