Originally Posted by JimmyStephans

The t-shirt part is for funding. They set-up the sites as a forum to trade and discuss, but it was huge at over 7000 members. They even wanted to host the content so DMCA to Rapidshare wouldn't get files taken down.

For funding Platoon set-up a site to sell t-shirts and it at first used PayPal, then another service called PayPay.

The forum had special sections you couldn't get into, including the stuff they hosted themselves, unless you donated money by purchasing a t-shirt.

Buy a t-shirt, get special access to all sort of other content they hosted themselves on a server in Turkey.

The site owners never replied to DMCA, C & D, or anything else. The site was moved about 6 times in 18 months -- hosts would get sick of complaints from guys like me. The last host was in Turkey and states right on their site they ignore American DMCA.

That doesn't matter -- the owner was in Ohio!

Jimmy