We have compiled a brand new list of Paypal takedowns against File Locker, Image Hosting and Piracy support sites that can be announced. Effective 2nd August 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 28th July and 2nd August 2012.
sharebee.com
filevelocity.com
giftshop24.net
premium4.me
bzlink.us
fileduct.net
>multi-debrid.com
jumbofiles.org
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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Another list of garbage hosts. Congratz on your effort. File host industry is now in chaos cos of your strategy.
File host industry is now in chaos !!!!! are you serious ? it is better than ever
For all the “sharing isn’t stealing” idiocy, why doesn’t someone throw the dictionary at this bullshit? Do these morons really think any government in the world is taking that position seriously?
Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: steal
intransitive verb
1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice
transitive verb
1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully b : to take away by force or unjust means c : to take surreptitiously or without permission d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one’s proper share
2 a : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner
3 a : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring
First, we don’t need a “dictionary” to tell us what is right and what is wrong. Second, okay, piracy is stealing, we pirates do it because we choose to do so and there isn’t sh*t you people can’t do about it; now what?
For now, the creative types just have to keep their day jobs and watch the “internet community” destroy Big Entertainment for us, and egg on the government to set up a free advertising/distribution platform for us – while we hold on to, and fine-tune our content. If it is stealing, like you admit, then the government will have to enforce the law on the internet. Do you think it’s you people or Big Entertainment that’s slowing down the process?
What are you stealing? You think anyone who’s creating quality content is actually releasing it now? I’m guessing your too young to realize that content you’re stealing, at least as far as music and movies, is either absolute shit, or older stuff that not only had it’s time on analogue mediums, but was then double and triple dipped in digital with CDs, remasters, DVDs, blue-ray, etc.
You’re really only hurting people who can’t hold on to their content for fear of falling behind, like software/internet developers. Entertainment has gone down the toilet, there’s nothing to keep up with. You don’t realize your “culture” is total backwash that isn’t worth stealing made by people who are just looking for attention.
1. American music and movies are sh*t and I don’t “consume” either of them, they’re made for Americans who live to consume, not me; there are lots of good stuff made in the other 95% of the world, go figure…
2. I’m not American and US doesn’t own the internet either, I don’t see why they don’t keep their laws to themselves and wanna apply it to all of internet and the whole world; oh wait, I do, they have nothing better to do than poking their nose in others’ business.
3. I’m most definitely older than what you think and also have my own reasons; in fact, many pirates do, the above reply not actually being one of them, that was just a troll. You on the other hand should go find sth new instead of clinging to the old grandpa excuse of “piracy is stealing”; whether it is or isn’t is not gonna change anything.
4. You really wanna argue with random people in some random blog on the internet over a subject you don’t really know anything about? The fact that you’re fighting back by such an outdated method, i.e. trying to define the meaning of a “word”, is proof enough that you’re far from understanding the actual reality of piracy; of course the same applies to the owner of this blog and his campaign but well, I can’t blame him, he is old and has nothing else to do thanks to the f*ked up economy in his country and no one is to blame for that other than the “consumer” population of that country.
“I’m not American and US doesn’t own the internet either, I don’t see why they don’t keep their laws to themselves” – I’m not American either. In what countries is stealing not against the law?
“there are lots of good stuff made in the other 95% of the world” – No there isn’t. Probably the only original musical idea in the last 20 years are those dubstep basslines that you kids think are just noise. Not that I listen to it, but it’s the only thing that surfaced that’s not a stale, watered-down retread. If there was good original music around anywhere it would surface. Granted, although I’ll listen to non-english music, I don’t watch many new non-english movies, so maybe they’re just fabulous.
“I’m most definitely older than what you think and also have my own reasons (for pirating)” – Why don’t you tell us what your “own” reasons are for stealing, other that to get things with out having to pay for it? I seriously doubt you’ve been on this planet for long in your non-consumer country with the healthy economy.
“You really wanna argue with random people in some random blog on the internet over a subject you don’t really know anything about? The fact that you’re fighting back by such an outdated method, i.e. trying to define the meaning of a ‘word’” – That’s some classic hypocracy mixed with total idiocy. Referencing a dictionary isn’t “outdated” XD. Not sharing the deluded rationalizations of the online theivery community doesn’t mean I’m not fully aware of them and can see straight through it. You’re the one “fighting back” on this blog. What is updated about you’re “method”? The lack of content in the theives defence is ironic. You steal online because you can, it’s as simple as that.
so in other words you somehow have the right to determine for an artist like me where my work goes, and who gets to make money from it…?
Question: did you just spend 3 months working your ass off making a comic that hundreds of people like?
Answer: no.
Question: so how does an artist like me survive to make more comics that my fans like?
Answer: by the money that my fans invest in me, you fucking retard!!!
You don’t seem to be very smart. Aren’t you aware of the many ways you can monetise your comics aside from charging per item? I bet if your comics are as popular as you say they are, you’d earn more money by just taking donations. Ever heard of Flattr?
so in other words you somehow have the right to determine for an artist like me where my work goes, and who gets to make money from it…?
Question: did you just spend 3 months working your ass off making a comic that hundreds of people like?
Answer: no.
Question: so how does an artist like me survive to make more comics that my fans like?
Answer: by the money that my fans invest in me, you ^$^#&^%@#!!
Piracy is the death of innovation and effort. What is the point of me making an effort, if I cannot sustain myself in the process?
@moderator: sorry for swearing
Thats the thing about using that definition though, it’s doesn’t specify.
To take the property of another – Essentally, to deprive them of something they they own. If a company releases a CD, and someone downloads a copy of that CD, the company hasn’t been deprived of their property. They still have the CD, so technically nothing was deprived or stolen from them. Money perhaps, but no one has a right to a specific amount of money. They have to earn that money.
It can be considered a lost sale, but frankly the day that “these people deserve to go to jail because they are depriving me of sales.’ becomes a accepted reason to jail people, or to shut down a business, thats the day that economys will die. (Since this arguement could easily be used to justify shutting down competition.)
While piracy is bad, it’s technically a ‘modern’ crime (with todays technology) and people are trying to apply old, and outdated, ideology to deal with it.
“Intellectual Property” takes intelligence to understand. This whole issue is a battle between the haves and the have nots, not in terms of money, but in terms of intelligence. Unfortunately the people with the power to do something about it often fall into the have not category.
Piracy is an old problem being done with new technology. The law enforcement needs to embrace the new technology but it’s developing too fast for them. When that development slows and stabilizes like all technology does you’ll see the police on the internet. It’s inevitable.
ha ha in chaos we just laugh at u ifile and adultking and everyone else on here
supporting adultking
Please take down slingfile.com – They host lots of pirated iOS apps.
upfile.biz <– lots of porn hollywood movie.
take a look.
I just want to clarify I meant no disrespect to the creator of this website with my above comments. I don’t know what content you’re trying to protect, I was just talking about new music and movies in general.
Thanks for this website, it’s nice to keep updated and to see PayPal doing something.
Why are people even looking at this website if they think nothing can be done to stop piracy? Not so smug anymore? The sh*t hasn’t even hit the fan yet!
Dear pirates,
IMO: piracy is the death of innovation and effort. What is the point of me making an effort, if I cannot sustain myself in the process? I mean, pirates, think about it for a moment. Sure, sharing is wonderful in an ideal world… but in an ideal world I wouldn’t be hungry, I wouldn’t need shelter, I wouldn’t need medicine, I wouldn’t need a PC to make these comics, because they all cost money! But hey, guess what… this is NOT an ideal world. I need food, shelter, medicine and a PC! And every comic you steal from me, makes this less and less possible for me to pay my bills, forcing me to find different work that you numbskulls cannot steal.
So, pirates, in the end its up to you. The more succesfull you will become, the more pressure artists will be under to find a different source of income. So then you’ll effectively be suppressing the art that you pirate. I’ll do it, if that’s what you want, it would be a shame but yeah, but I need food.
Than all that will be left is free art… is that what you want? So you have dictated that all artists must not earn money? So if you’re saying that art should not be rewarded? Well then stop all art. Stop all our efforts to make life more fun and rewarding. Is art not made to reward us with aesthethic pleasure? your good feelings? for fun? for money? is money not a happy thing then? Why do people still pay for art then? How many famous painters worked hard to earn a bit of money? Imagine how many famous painters you guys would’ve suppressed if you existed back in the 16th century… starting to get the picture here?
In the end its up to you, the pirates. If you like art so much, how about spending your time promoting it for us, rewarding us, instead of stealing it and doing with it what you will?
a Comic Artist
How did you learn that every single download equals lose in single sale figure, retard?
@ ifile: it doesn’t, but if you saw a $12 comic somewhere available for free, would you overcome the temptation and buy the $12 comic? Most probably not. People don’t wanna pay for stuff, that’s how it works. Can you blame them? No.
If I’d find a comic lying on the street, I’d pick it up, ask around if anyone’s lost it, and if nobody claims it, I’d either give it to someone, or take it home. Piracy puts the comic on the street! so to speak. And that is the part that pisses me off.
You pirates are not that special, you just help make things worse. So the result is, less and less support for artists whose stuff is being made available for free… result: artist produces less art, and might just even have to stop all together. So effectively, yeah, I’m sorry, but you are killing art. Its not an exact science, but the concept is really not that hard to understand, idiot.
thanks
how comes that freakshare and bitshare still have their paypal!!?? So you have some connections with them!!!!!
To me this debate over piracy is boring and not really the issue.
For me, the issue is should legitimate filelockers who follow the DMCA in good faith continue to be harassed by the owner of this site.
For me thats a big no. There’s also nothing inherent illegal about filelockers they provide a valuable service that many people use for legitmate purposes. For example, I download opensource software and homebrew custom apps from them all the time. It allows the dev to make a small amount of money and save on hosting costs.
I have family and friends who keep their pictures and documents stored with mediafire. It allows them to save money and the hassle of purchasing a backup harddrive.
Cloud computing and collabration tools are here to stay. You want to fight pirates increase the protection of pirated works with DRM. Storage lockers are not the real issue. After all, the work in question has already been comprised well before it reaches the server.
If storage lockers get shutdown all you will do is make the pirates move to another content delivery system and hurt the users who use it for legitimate purposes.
To me this entire site seems like one mans misguided crusade against storage lockers.
Most infringing file lockers operate on the basis of the DMCA revolving door, knowing that files they take down will quickly be replaced by more infringing files.
All the file lockers we have examined on this site have a far greater proportion of infringing content. In fact we search very hard for legitimate files yet rarely find them in the sea of infringing content.
At the end of the day, Paypal only terminate their relationship with sites which are in breach of their AUP. Any frustration you may have about the removal of Paypal from any particular site should be directed at Paypal.
There is a whole collaborative group working behind the scenes on this project, it’s not just one man as you put it but a dedicated team working to curb commercial copyright theft.
hipfile.com uses downloadlimit.com to charge customers. downloadlimit.com doesn’t do business with paypal and they offer MULTIPLE ways of paying including credit cards. filehosts have finally found a way to avoid stopfilelockers as visa & mastercard will not read emails from stopfilelockers.
I am testing new paypal alternatives and I think I found one better, low fee with no paypal policy.
You waste your time, you trick some guys and take their money as ” donations “
blablabla…meanwhile big file lockers like Hotfile.com share tons of illegal materials + give out a lot of money throught their affiliate system + sale premium account via paypal.
Great, you closed a lot of tiny file lockers but the big ones are still in the game and you can’t do nothing. So I recomend you to stop because your effort is useless. As everybody know, all websites together on which you worked to terminate their sales are not even a small % of hotfile .
hmm editor, i wonder could it be the fact that people who host backups and legitimate files don’t go posting them on forums, so you would NOT be able to find these ‘legitimate’ files, as they can only be seen by someone if the link is shared with them, otherwise the files are ‘private’. And you are finding files and links that people share on all these warez forums, because they are in fact ‘sharing’ the link with people? thus making it publicly accessible? you see, so there is no way for you to gauge anything, because you do not have access to view what everybody uploads to a filelocker, so you’re post here saying that the illegal files outweigh the legal files, have no merit whatsoever.
Good thing people can’t download big macs from file share sites or most of these guys would be out of a job.
Has the Editor gone walk about…..
you cant stop sharing b*tch. go ahead and waste more of your time. i cant even imagine someone so pathetic like you :0
and for the last words: go f*ck yourself
So, what is new on Rapidshare, the biggest file locker currently in existence? You don’t dare go after them because they have lots of skilled lawyers and you’re no match for them, do you?
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