File Reactor was a popular site amongst uploaders, unfortunately all good (bad) things must come to an end and it appears that File Reactor is no more.
We are pleased that the site has now been offline for around 24 hours and they have been having difficulty paying uploaders and affiliates for weeks.
File Reactor had premium memberships payable by Paypal, unfortunately that source of payment became a problem for them
Read on to find out more about File Reactor.
File Reactor offered premium memberships to download files. You can see their payment rates and Paypal logos clearly in the screenshot above.
File Reactor offers uploaders up to $22 per 1000 downloads and affiliate payments on premium memberships. The offer was widely promoted on forums such as in the screenshot above.
A search of a popular file host search site revealed that File Reactor hosted many full site rips and illegally shared pornography, they also had file names that suggested they hosted child exploitation material.
If it was software that was more your cup of tea, then File Reactor had copious amounts of pirate software, a search for “Adobe” revealed many cracked, copied, pirated versions of Adobe software as well as stolen copies of Adobe instructional books.
For the moment File Reactor is gone, their website does not load and uploaders are now complaining about lack of payment and inability to work with the site. We will be working closely with payment processors to ensure that if the site does re-appear that we can shut off it’s supply of funding quickly and cause the site to fail again.
We will work hard to shut down any file sharing site which encourages or even permits illegal file sharing.
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you guyz are worthless piece of sh*ts. Sharing is free and information is free. What you are doing is bullsh*t.
You can add Pigsonic also to the list. It’s NOT working from the last 1 week.
Jerks.. what YOU are doing is bull*it.
Give me access to your hard drive and then you might have the right to lecture me that ‘information is free’
In the meanwhile take your free viagra, your mp3s, movies, warez and other information to which you’ve contributed nothing and have the balls to state that you are nothing more than a thief and a pawn for the lies that those wealthy cyberlocker owners recite and then laugh at you for perpetuating on their behalf.
I’m not going to lecture over semantics but a freeloader is someone who wants everything for no money – someone who exploits chances to get free stuff whenever possible.
They’re the guy in the bar who never buys a drink for others but is always the first to get someone else to buy them a drink. They contribute nothing, they just take and take.
As for the rest of your self-justification, at least a labourer gets paid and that may even be governed by union rates. An independent artist/musician/software developer/etc will almost certainly not get paid via your idea of ‘progress’ and they’re the ones who’ve invested their creativity and money into creating something of use and value until you and your freeloader friends deem it “pile of ***, and insist that” it’s worthless.
I’m not on the side of the corporates – never have been and never will be – but your freeloader idea of what’s fair game makes no discrimination between corporate or independent….you just want stuff for free. That’s a bona fide freeloader.
Worse still, you then defend those who take that work and via affiliate programs make money out of the same work you deem worthless, attempting to wrap it up as ‘progress’ in the process. That’s a bona fide hypocrite, right there.
And you really think this will stop anyone from sharing files “illegally”? Let me tell you one thing for sure: it will NEVER stop. Whatever you do. People will always share, one way or another. You can’t win this fight. You can try, as you’re doing now but the sooner you realize it’s pointless, the better for you.
For every locked out “File Locker”, a dozens of new are born. Plus we have FTPs, private servers, USENET, IRC, thumb drives, DVDs, CDs, HDDs, tapes and so on. There are hundreds of ways to share something “illegally”. We really don’t need any premium “File Lockers”, they can all die.
Good luck though!
It’s funny, people that write things like ‘sharing is free’ don’t seem to realize that it’s because of them, that the content on the internet will have to be enforced. Do they really not understand that? It’s their actions that is forcing the big change to happen.
Absolutely true JPerry.
These people are the real reason that the internet may end up controlled and regulated by even more powerful corporates than exist today. If they think ‘little people’ have little control today, they’re course of action will ensure that in 10 years time ‘little people’ will have no control whatsoever.
Sadly though the freeloader brigade are too blinded by greed and the mantra churned out by those who make millions from the work of others to see the bigger picture and where their actions are taking the rest of us.
Just so long as they can get their counterfeit viagra and free mp3s
No YOU have no clue as to the consequences of your actions. like how the forum mod will likely censor this comment.
Are you an American by chance? You sound like one of my fellow country-men who say they are proud to be an American yet have no clue what the 1st amendment means.
Once censorship starts…..
IT DOES NOT STOP!!!
That is the end result. Someone else deciding what you’ll have access to on the net.
Kiss Wikipedia good-bye for one….
Hmm, well, a freeloader is someone who wants money for nothing. You stick a fat price tag on your pile of ***, and insist that if anyone wants it, then it must be worth whatever you’re charging, rather than what the market will bear. Meanwhile, you expect to just kick back and watch the money roll in for something you probably didn’t even create, but rather are just a contractual gatekeeper for… or if you did create it, you expect to rest on your laurels, getting a lifetime of good livin’ for something you did 10, 20, 30 years ago. Most laborers get paid once, but you want to get paid forever. So who is the freeloader here? Once it’s out there, you can’t expect to keep holding it for ransom. Get creative, folks. Hiring lawyers and attacking consumers is not creativity.
Like!
They are freaking out because they cant hoard the information as they used to.