We have compiled another list of Paypal takedowns against File Locker, Image Hosting and Piracy support sites that can be announced. Effective 17th July 2012.
We believe the following sites have had their relationships terminated by Paypal. With Paypal terminations it’s common practice for funds to be frozen for 180 days, no withdrawals or transfers of funds allowed.
The following sites lost Paypal payment processing between 12th and 17th July 2012.
We believe that all these sites have been terminated by Paypal in the last week. We do not believe any of them may process through Paypal again, however Paypal always deals with these matters on a case by case basis.
NOTES Copy Control does not claim responsibility for these or any other Paypal terminations. Many organisations work to deal with infringing sites. Some of these sites may have been reported earlier then re-reported as they continued to process with Paypal. This information is current at the time of publication and is subject to change.
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Why are you complaining about image hosts?
Don’t you get it, this guy (Adultking) has nothing to do with all these takedowns.
Paypal has introduced stricter policies, so they are now banning sites from their service that don’t comply with those policies.
Some large filehosts like rapidgator, uplaoded.to or rapigator have lost the ability to process payments with Paypal before the Editor of this site even started his “campain”.
I’m aware of all this, but image hosts….??
You purposely repeated some of the file hosting so that the list looks longer?
Read the notes, some have been re-actioned because they resumed processing.
When Paypal blocks an account, they should also block the referrer domain to prevent the website from using any other Paypal account.
Brad, in general that would be a great idea, if it wouldn’t be for the fact that they sneakily redirect Paypal requests through other sites / domains.
Good job but Brad Breakfast is right, they should do that.
Let me tell you something: Freakshare still uses Paypal, it’s available to buy premium accounts (monthly subscription) and they’re still paying uploaders through Paypal (using a different account). Check Freakshare’s thread in Wjunction. Come on, you have to stop them once for all.
meanwhile, bitshare is laughing and counting his $$$
come on guys take it down
I uploaded 20TB of free porn for you via rapidshare haha
Most of these sites are unknown and have less than 10k total files hosted (compared to the big ones with at least 10 millions each). It is trivial to convince Paypal to disable their accounts. A simple email to [email protected] will take care of this.
However CC has so far failed to convince Paypal to disable any accounts of the bigger hosters.
One has to question what Robert’s real intentions are. He well knows that his actions won’t bring customers back to his paid adult sites. Even if all sites hypothetically have all their payment options disabled, somebody will always upload the files to a site that doesn’t pay their affiliates (e.g. rapidshare) for free.
Rome wasn’t built in a day and in many cases larger sites take much longer to investigate than smaller ones. Watch this space.
Good job listing one and the same site four times…
[4shared.com, 4shared-china.com, 4s.io, 4s.io]
Do you really need to extend your list with such cheap tricks?
If you could read, obviously you can’t, you would see in the notes that some sites are sites which re-commenced processing with Paypal.