Not a week goes by without us receiving a collection of legal threats, nutty letters, threatening emails or just plain crazy diatribes telling us how rich rights holders deserve to have their content stolen.
We’ve decided to publish one we received this week as it demonstrates just how dumb some people are with relation to this issue.
Robert King,
It has come to my attention that you have been manipulating payment processors with fraudulent pretenses. I intend to collaborate with file host site owners, affiliates, & premium membership purchasers to file a class action law suit. Allegations & actions sought may include, but not limited to:
1.) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: 18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(2), 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2), 1151, S.Rept. 112-91 § 2111, 18 U.S.C. 1030, 18 U.S.C. § 1030(d)
2.) Electronic Communications Privacy Act: 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510
3.) Communications Act: 47 U.S.C. §§ 553 and 605
4.) National Stolen Property Act: 18 U.S.C. § 2314
5.) Misrepresentation of © claimant: § 202.3(a)(3)(ii)I will also work with Paypal providing proof of your fraudulent activities, violation of privacy policy, & recommend that they seek legal action against you.
Sincerely,
Candie Vessler
What’s interesting about this email is that there is really a belief out there that infringing file lockers are just victims and that we are somehow able to dictate to payment processors what they should do with them.
Read on for more
This email proves to us that our campaign is having a positive impact. Sites which have been set up to profit from rampant piracy are starting to hurt in the hip pocket. When a site is unable to receive Paypal anymore it loses access a huge number of customers. When a site is unable to transact within the Visa and Mastercard system then it’s pretty much game over.
It’s worth pointing out that Paypal will not terminate an account because we ask them to do so. They conduct their own investigation into the site and if the site does not comply with the Paypal AUP, the Paypal Terms and Conditions or any special conditions placed on a class of merchant, then the merchant loses access to Paypal payment processing.
The letter (unconvincing legal threat) quoted above draws a long bow, it’s saying that we have the power to manipulate payment processors like Paypal. Such a claim demonstrates a lack of understanding of even the most basic fact, that being that Paypal are a very large company with stringent processes in place to deal with abuse of it’s service.
It seem’s that infringing file locker owners are feeling the pinch and there seems to be a realisation now that it’s not only Paypal paying close attention to this class of merchant.
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Haha it is nice to see what nonsense WJ armchair lawyers come up with.
Watch out for that law suit. Not a lawsuit, a law suit; a nice ensemble she’ll put together for imaginary court.
Pure comedy.
we will see what will happen
haha nice work!
Well, that certainly puts you in your place!
And you know you should be worried when they know how to use the § diacritical. Because only people who know the law know how to insert a symbol in their… diatribe? screed? threat.
Memo to Candie: the only people who profit from a class action lawsuit are the lawyers. But I’m sure you knew that, too.
It’s funny, the war on file sharing has become the new war on drugs and just like with the war on drugs, this war will go on and on because it is run by the same incompetent people. They can’t stop us. Even in February 2012 when they took down MegaUpload and a few other filelockers ran scared, it barely registered as a blip on my radar. The only thing it does is increase my resolve and I download things I may want in the future, just in case. I have 6,000 movies, 400 complete TV series, 18,000 Mp3s and god know how many games and software, all sitting on hard drives and backed up. I haven’t contributed to the corporate engine and watched a commercial in months. Until reality TV is eradicated and movie quality improves to what it was prior to 2005 and illegal movements like TPP and SOPA are stopped, I will continue my fight, downloading almost a terabyte a month and freely spreading this content to friends and family to ensure people like the ones who run this web site fail. Keep up your sh*t, we will find you and respond in kind.
Brilliant plan freetard. How many evil corps did you kill already? Let me guess… None, right? They’re all alive and kicking because they control revenue streams not affected by piracy, such as movie ticket sales and TV licensing deals. But you did kill alot of independent producers and artists and keep killing more of them daily. Are you happy freetard? Or does your hate need more victims?
It is because of greed and stupidity of the freehadists like you who’re too full of hate to pay people who produced stuff that you enjoy, we’ll soon not have much of independently produced ANYTHING. We’ll be limited to the whatever corporate bullshit they’re willing to feed us, because sick f*cks like you who hate all people who produce something of value destroyed all their competition and freed their hands to do pretty much whatever they want.
You’re too retarted to realise that you’re not merely not putting a dent into the “corporate engine” through your silly freehad crusade, you’re actually giving them more power than ever.
if what you say is true why has independent content gained market share in recent years?
do something about luckyshare!
My servant also had a servant. Can you guess what his name was?
It’s ironic his claims, but then he does not look at the end result. Sure, he cost companies like depositfiles some time to get their paypal back up, but in the end, he’s swimming against the tide.
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. I make more money hosting my own IP on file lockers than I would elsewhere. So, why would I think that your efforts benefit me, the IP holder?
In reality, you’re just another cog in the studio machine that tries to keep small players out of the adult entertainment industry.
I’ve read both sides and regardless of ideology all information should be free. u can trade or give away books once you’ve purchased them, the same with dvd’s/blu-ray’s. After point of purchase everything is fair game. The right holders have gotten paid already after purchase and after that, all actions should be fine.
Unless I’ve completely missed the point
So it’s enough for one person to buy a Pirates of Carribbean DVD and then another 50 thousand people can download it from him for free. Not exactly free, many people have premium accounts on file lockers so the only people that make money are file locker owners and their affiliates/uploaders.
What a rip off of The Pirate Bay with the posting of legal threats. This site is fing lame…
LONG LIVE TPB!!!!!!! arrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!
seriously though…How are the file hosting services responsible for their customers’ file content??? Thats like going after General Motors because their cars have hit and killed people. As opposed to going after the drunk behind the wheel. Dont they all have a process where copyright complaints can be filed and the content in question be looked at? Whats wrong with that? Why attack the company for just doing what they advertise…Hosting files?
And on another note, file sharing is growing beyond what this weak little site could ever hope to combat…
Get Kickstarter! Damn those indies getting paid without a real producer! Leeches of society I tell you.