Is FileSonic really that trustworthy?

[MisterL]

Hey there people.

I don't know if this has already come up or if any of you have already heard of this but since I am actively posting on the perved forum, I recently got this email from one of the administrators:

Dear members,

As you might know, some time ago the account of one of our mods was cancelled and a 4 digit payout withheld. The money was intended to fund server and content. The company doing this was FILESONIC. After a week of getting no answers and finally setting an ultimatum, FILESONIC issued a statement.


"We do not want of your business on FileSonic.com. You have uploaded and promoted Underage Content and we have a zero tolerance policy regarding this."

Really?

Filesonic activly protects the copyright of underage sites like Kailyn-Teenmodel.com. According to the site the model is 13. They help this webmaster to make money! Interesting double standards, also from a legal point of view, as you will see further down the page.

The files they complain about origin from a perfectly legal site - and filesonic does not deny that. Today, they even named other files then before. Changing reasons, same result: After having sold their accounts to many of our members, they are not interested anymore in new accounts (the don't make money with that, only renewlas make money, as they don't share them with perved.com).

More then a week after complaining, May 4th, they finally donated the money they had not paid out, acting like a dealer who throws away the crack before the cops arrest him. No loss for them, they had to pay it anyway. But they had never donated it if we had not insisted again and again to not keep it.

Also, we found out that Filesonic statics should be taken with extreme caution.Either noone wants these links, or not all downloads are counted. Also, there is clear evidence that membership sales have not been counted. 4 perved members bought liftetime memberships, but only 1 showed up in the statistics (member sent us the transaction-numbers to verifay that)

Now, look at this: In April, Filesonic payed 80% of earnings, plus 25% bonus, plus 5% to site owners.This makes up for 106 %!! If something sounds to good to be true, it most likely is....

If this wasn't bad enough, FILESONIC tries to blackmail us. They don't want us to tell you what happened, so they wrote us this:

"If you wish to go public, we will also go public with this screen capture of a donation we made of your earnings . We are not afraid "Mr. JBwannabe" aka "OldBlue" aka "Miket587" ... We can and will forward your information to authorities if you wish to go that way."
So, going to the authorities does not depend on legal standards, but on the fact THAT WE GO PUBLIC. That's plain blackmail. If we would allow that once, we would sell our souls.

Well guys, imagine this company gets a visit from the film industry... guess if they report your data... they most likely will!

Filesonic, there is nothing to hide, so we go public ourselfs. The content posted was legal, and the authorities are much more interested in your business then in the sets you deleted.

A Hoster that is a risk for our members cannot been tolerated. For that reason, we had to permanently ban FILESONIC. We are sorry about this, but we had no choice, and no way to resolve the issue could be found. We ask you to inform your friends on other boards. Give them a warning. Post it in blogs. Send it on Facebook and Twitter. Post it in the newsgroups: Let the world know.
We know there are problems on other boards as well, so we will work together on this.

AND we encourage everyone to backup their data via remote upload and CANCEL their account.


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Has anyone of you had similar issues with FileSonic, yet? I take such incidents very seriously and am currently wondering whether or not to continue uploading there.

What are your thoughts on this?

MisterL Reviewed by MisterL on 10th May 2011. Is FileSonic really that trustworthy? Hey there people. I don't know if this has already come up or if any of you have already heard of this but since I am actively posting on the perved forum, I recently got this email from one of the administrators: Has anyone of you had similar issues with FileSonic, yet? I take such incidents very seriously and am currently wondering whether or not to continue uploading there. What are your thoughts on this? Rating: 5

[CyberAff]

who sent you this shit? its all bullshit

[EL-Warez]

A big forum like perved.com wants to play the bad guy with filesonic CyberAff?Are you sure that this is fake?

[JoomlaZ]

Heck. why all should leave filesonic just coz of a trouble occurred with perv? There are places much important than them to promote filesonic. And many uploaders making good money with filesonic too.

[spirkov]

I've recieved exsactly the same email right now... hmm seems to be true ?!

[EL-Warez]

Until someones report hardly?It seems they act like HF.

[MisterL]

Im not questioning whether people make good money with FileSonic or not - what I am concerned about is whether they SHOULD be making MORE money because FileSonic isn't counting all downloads and sales. Thats my point. And I doubt that perved.com just made this up.
I mean, why would they? A lot of people use FileSonic and have FileSonic premium accounts. Now that they banned FS, they're gonna lose some members/traffic for sure.

[CyberAff]

well yes its bullshit guys they are just trying to remove few uploaders from filesonic so they can upload and earn a single shit atleast so people will buy premium accounts from their files rather than all of us uploads and they get only 1-2 sales but they came with this idea so atleast they can earn a single shit

i just got the payment last tuesday with no error or any shit, this all are bullshit wonder why people doesn't send me that shit i have a good replys lol

just do one thing "tick the email - send to trash" or just forward the Message to him just do few changes add "FileServe" instead and see what he will reply to you lol

[qloolp]

people doesn't send me that shit i have a good replys loll

I love this LOL

[JoomlaZ]

Yes obviously they will be dropped by members. Digital things are like that. Anything may happen at time.