We have compiled a massive list of Paypal takedowns against File Locker sites that can be announced. This is a preliminary article, we will report more in-depth shortly.
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 on 9th July 2012.
All these sites have been terminated by Paypal in the last few hours. 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.
UPDATE 11th July 2012 It seems that half the sites above are now processing payments through Paypal in one form or another. We will be in contact with Paypal to have as many of these shut down as quickly as possible. Many of these sites had backup accounts on ice and it just goes to show how little respect the operators of these sites have for the rules when they deliberately circumvent Paypal terminations.
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Thanky you for destroying the freedom in the internet.
eeek, you are wrong, sharing illegal files IS NOT F… INTERNET FREEDOM
How about shutting your site down???
Thank you for bringing the freedom to the internet. The freedom to create and not to be raped by thieves, the freedom to have property and making your own decisions on how to use it, the freedom to express yourself and being able to earn money to fund your new works. Thank you from the whole lot of small and medium sized independent content creators who can now enjoy their freedom of speech and freedom to enrich our culture, backed by the financial freedom to live of off the income their own work produces.
And also thank you for the freedom to keep our children safe from abuse by sick perverts praying on them to satisfy the ever growing demand for more photos and videos, fueled by illegal filehosts, their uncontrollable uploads and affiliate programs paying for downloads.
Thank you once again, and keep up your amazing and very important work.
Do not worry, they also sell your children to porn and all the dirt network, but much more expensive! Net Internet – expensive internet, all the same, but very expensive! I do not understand your joy?
your trying to cut off the funds, because you know yourswlf that that is the only way.
if everything that you say would be true, why not sueing the filhesting sites??
here the answer: you know that you would FAIL, because their services are absolutely
legal
If they were legal, why is Paypal shutting them down?
Because of porn stored on these sites. It’s legal but not for PayPal
porn is not free. its the same thing like you are sharing newest movie or mp3 album..
Congrats
Thank you for your efforts. Keep it going.
cramit.in has a new pp account up.
It won’t be there tomorrow. I guarantee it.
It’s Bitshare/Freakshare’s turn, they’re banning more uploaders every day for random reasons, as if that is gonna save them!
Cramit.in still accepts paypal and I it is working now !?
PS:You are working on terminate every site which offer affiliate program right ?
This will be fixed tomorrow.
wow the world is full or people residing is castles in the air. Wallachia salutes you my good man – carry on
What about FILEPOST ?
Filepost is not filelocker, they are backup site
Are you retarded? Or personally connected to Filepost? It’s beyond obvious Filepost is a file locker. They require you to register to upload files. They sell premium subscriptions. They operate much like any other file locker, and the technical system they use is IDENTICAL to the one used on Uploading.com.
Yes, they are a flie locker as well, but I think that they are not that bad, at least I think there are dozens of bigger and smaller file lockers that are much worse.
They are as bad as, if not worse than, the next file locker. There’s rumors that they have a hidden affiliate program for some of the top earning/oldest affiliates of theirs and so on.
They most certainly do have an affiliate program, because I still see lots of filepost links and those posters will not even piss unless they were paid to do that.
And they’re also a required hoster at several big piracy sites such as awaxhome, meaning that every post there should have either filepost link or or a mirror in it. Obviously, warez sites’ admins are not doing it for free for filepost – pirates are not known to run a charity.
f*ck you piece of sh*t and your sh*tty blog will be destroyed soon !
OMG! This is why I love seeing you fucking pirates lose some money!
What’s it like, eh?
F*ck you and your ilk, spock!
Well done AK… keep up the fine work and I am sure many webmasters and independent producers will back you ALL THE WAY!
Why should we work our asses off to have these thieves take it from us? WTF have they done to earn a damned cent?
you are going to pay for that!
Hhhhh that is strange
You sell porn and dont want other to do it
I hope you get sick and never find a cure .
Thats will be the end of you, if you want to fight
File hosting
Then shut your business first scumbag
Oh also
F*ck paypal the scammers the f********king assholes
We will never use them anymore and this will be the end of them
We have better and more secure way to pay and get paid
SO you only making the usa citizens mad
Cause almost 99% of them use paypal
And now they will for something better and better
So other companies will have the chance now
Last thing
How about you shut up u mouth and u site
AND FUC**** YOUR SELF
Charming.
Nice work, man. When will be Freakshare/Bitshare’s turn??? I can’t wait for those fuckers to go down… XD
We will sh*t on your grave after pissing on your tombstone and having sex with your mom
@ salud. LMAO.
Here’s a good signature for you. “We are leigion, we can’t spell, we swear a lot and we’re up past our bedtime”
Brilliant minds – gotta love ‘em
Do you really think that people are going to pay (you) for watching porn?
LOL.
Of course they will. People need porn and if it’s not available for free, they’ll pay for it.
I think that you misunderstood how the internet works.
If I upload something illegal to someone’s server, who is the guilty one ? Me or server owner ? If you are the owner of that material, you send them an mail and they delete it.
In front of your sight, if someone upload a hollywood movie to hotmail server, then we should shutdown hotmail.
It’ impracticable.
If those hotmail links to stolen hollywood movies will be posted at thousands of piracy blogs and forums, than they surely need to be shut down. But you do not see hotmail links anywhere at warez-bb, right? Because they react quickly and ban any one who’s trying to abuse their system and use it for large scale and systematic copyright infringements. That’s what an ISP should do as per DMCA, that’s why mr. King is not after Hotmail. But he’s after file lockers who do exactly the opposite to what is required of them by law, and provide pirates with the safe haven to post their infringing files to, and to earn illegal income from.
Hey dude, the support for Letitbit en WJ says that they don’t have any problem with Paypal. Will they be take down soon or not???
F*ck you guys.
You will never shut us down. Although it is simply a matter of time til we take you down.
The pirating will ALWAYS continue!
This site’s owner is a really moterfu*ker. He has got a gay porn movies site. He is worried about his shitty gay movies. He is not worried about other files. Neither you nor your god can’t stopping the piracy.
This is incorrect, none of us have any gay adult sites.
Do your research better next time, Sherlock.
you are not replying as you do before RealAdultking…
because you may know that your words will be counting as legal aspects … Be careful and ready for the legal actions.
I don’t reply to comments which have already been answered and dealt with on the blog.
Please learn to read and perhaps also take some English lessons.
File locker is just like hosting site.
So if anything illegal, you just report to them.
If they fail to remove illegal files, then you should do next.
It is not fair to shutdown payment processor without notice.
There are at least 5 conditions that an ISP have to meet to qualify to recieve “safe harbor”. Removing illegal files when reported is only one of them, there are others that are equally of not more important. That’s per DMCA.
And there are also VISA/MC regs that have even more conditions that need to be met in order to qualify for merchant status. Much more of them.
To meet both set of conditions, file lockers should act proactively to make sure their sites are clean of illegal files, and not simply sit and wait until somebody will notify them what to remove.
I look forward to more developments in these stories. Kinda sad how ppl are so infurated and showing thier ass. Ppl will never learn.
Why don’t you mention to N E T L O A D . IN ??
THIS SITE IS JUST LIKE THE FATHER OF ALL FILE LOCKERS!
regarding filegag.com
their tos says no porn , and even in the wj thread they posted no porn allowed , check their wjuncton thread they banned all porn uploaders right from the launch of the site.
But your blog post title is hilarous ,
And you got their pp banned for no reason
Obviously they’re not good at following their own TOS lol.
Take a look at novafile.com – they’re sharing pirated mp3 and still using paypal.
F*ck you guys.
Why not also Netload ???
Are you a part of them?
No, there are hundreds of File Lockers. We will get to each eventually.
Dream on Editor. The Russians will laugh in your face!
F*ck U Editor
I do not understand nor comprehend why this website feels so much hate, when you to a uni for knowledge u do not pay for the knowledge itself you pay for a high quality information among alll the other things, same thing apples with files you do not pay for the file its self your paying for the service (download speed, easy intraction and on on..) so i do not understand what this website wants to do as far as i can see its just killing competition… can someone explain why the hell were doing this?
I wonder, what did you achieved by blocked their paypal accounts if they still exist and are able to carry out transaction in other way ?
I dont get it… why do people always try to destroy the natural order of things? This goes beyond filehosts, humanity will never advance… and that is just SAD.
you do realize that every one of those sites also has legit content right?
i personally have stored pictures from vacations my resume documents i personally wrote videos i took with my webcam etc to file lockers…..if you expect ANY filehoster to check every single file manually as its posted that is simply ridiculous even if they had a db of names of pirated content (names of games movies etc) that auto deleted and banned anyone uploading them it still wouldnt work (theyd replace letters with numbers and us abbreviations) expecting a filehoster to check every bit of content as its uploaded and delete and remove it and ban the uploader before even recieving a take down notice is just as ridiculous as expecting a cop to know of a crime before it was reported and arrest the offender before he actually committed the crime…or expecting an owner of a forum to read every post thats made on the entire site and immediately delete any posts that break the site rules before they are even reported by other users etc its just as ridiculous as trying to shut down every shop that sells second hand goods so that they have to go back to the source and pay full price…..
How’s the Collective going ?
omni, they don’t have to “check” every file, guess what, now there’s technology that can do just that. Trouble is, their business depends on illegal uploads (not the legal stuff) and so it would destroy their viability were they to actually check content.
I sort of love your outrage at the idea that the filehoster would have to “check every single file.” What do you think the artists whose songs are uploaded at these filelocker sites have to do????
Sorry, but whining on behalf of those making bucks of theft seems a bit misdirected. How ’bout showing some sympathy to the artists whose work is ripped off instead?
the collective?
We know more than you seem to think.
also what did that have to do with anything in my original post
Time will tell for you on that front.
lol i dont even have a paypal xD so i dont think youll be reporting me to them….and i hate CP (and those who like that shit) and i have never uploaded pirated content…..soooo……dont see how you are going to do anything to me….
also i dont think you realize how many individuals use the prefix omni in their net names
That early morning knock on the door won’t be the postman.
and exactly what would i be arrested for? i dont upload…..i dont view CP……..i dont use paypal…..i dont sell illegal goods (or any goods for that matter) (virtual or physical) ………i dont hack……so……i dont see anything that would make the fbi interested in little old me xD
hell if you knew me youd know there are few things i hate more in this world then CP, pedophiles, and wife beaters
You can’t stop piracy on the internet it’s to big for you
操你妈的逼逼啊，吃多了没事做！断老子财路！
Dear editor,
you are a sad man, living in the 20th century.
Editor is not one person but several however we all thank you for your note about our state of happiness.
’bout time. Cut off the blood supply.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about small and medium sized independent content creator’s financial freedom to earn money and live of off the income their own work produces. I only care about my financial freedom and my income. Screw them. Better the money in my pocket than theirs. I and many other people will continue to download all my movies, music, ebooks, and software for free from Pirate sites and there’s no way of stoping it. You been trying for how long now, since the 90s.
@ surrey. Well, at least you’re honest and I hope your ‘right’ to fake viagra and free porn makes you happy.
Why do you care about trying to save the mass media when the mass media itself is more corrupt than the pirates who try to download it ? 75% of the worlds music, film and TV is all owned by three fascist companies that will rot the brains on the ignorant and naive. Murdoch is more powerful than any world leader…. Burlosconi is nearly as bad. ALL of these companies are monopolies that are profeiteering and price fixing. What is it exactly thar you are trying to save ?
Those who go around ‘policing’ the net on some self appointed ‘internet watch’ crusade, thinking they are improving the world are living a pipe dream. Surveys have shown that ‘piracy’ is largely a form of marketing that increases sales rather than decreases them. Reviews on pirated movies drive sales of higher quality DVDs and Blu-ray versions, the helpfulness of pirated software titles passes by word of mouth to those who would pay for them either because they are in a work environment or because they need the support. The idea that ‘pirates’ would open their (often empty) wallets if they couldn’t get it for free is a nonsense fallacy. Run a search on “piracy is marketing and increases sales”, and read some of the many instances where this trend has been proven. Not that you should ‘have to’, it should be obvious to someone with the ability to think about it. All the creators of this site are doing is dumbing-down the world they live in, as modern IT has provided a wonderful education boost to the entire globe, even in those places where the average per capita income would NEVER allow them to pay western prices. Developers are NOT losing money, but they ARE providing a service to many more happy people … through so called ‘piracy’. Wake up guys! Haven’t you got something more useful to do? Amon
AmonRixta trotting out the usual nonsense…take a bow for being such a fuckwit Amon
What is it with pirates and their studies or surveys anyway?
Anyone can do a ‘survey’ or a ‘study’ and skew results according to their dogma. Just look at Torrent Freak where every comment on every ‘news piece’ spouts the same crap and proclaims it as ‘proof’.
It’s like a bunch of religious zealots shouting “the devil is coming for you” or “God hates fags” at passers by. The only difference is the ranting at TF and sometimes here consists of “MAFFIA is evil” and “you can’t stop progress” etc etc
Who the fuck are you to call wholesale theft ‘progress’?
Progress is people standing up for their rights, not cyberlocker owners getting rich off the back of someone else’s work.
So..my survey of pirates and those who defend cyberlocker owners reveals that 99.99% of them are assholes…..oh, hang on, that’s a fact.
LOL. The difference is … you’re quoting YOURSELF. Self important little dweeb! I’ll bet you were a ‘hall monitor’ at school. You don’t believe in statistics, Rick? The point, and you can confirm it for yourself if you have the courage to actually Google the string I mentioned, is that as surprising as it might be, some developers have found that uploading their own products to ‘piracy lockers’ … increased sales! And when you think about it, it makes sense. Word of mouth is a powerful advertising medium. Swear all you like, it isn’t impressive.