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Originally Posted by Zyber
How would you want to take down Oron? By contacting PayPal?
That won't get you too far. PayPal have profited from Oron for years.
Anyone want to take down PayPal?  )
Anyone doing an investigation on Oron and the other file-sharing services? Where to post information? |
Yup, contacting paypal is not a good way to go about it. You would have to threaten Paypal with something significant for them to give up $100s of thousands in processing fees.
Paypal actually suspended processing with Oron for a couple weeks, my bet is that Oron made some sort of deal, (maybe higher processing fees) to get their account back.
To take Oron down, you would need to gather evidence of them directly profiting off copyrighted works hosted on their server. I'm sure there is PLENTY of evidence of them acquiring pornbb, not to mention, I have my suspicions that they're buying off major uploaders to use their service, (anyone can contact me via ICQ for that information).
I think there is more than enough information to take them down, that's not the problem. Who is willing to spend a couple hours a day gathering evidence and contacting local district attorneys? Who is willing to spend the money to hire attorneys and go after them?
Only a couple major producers. Which in the grand scheme of things, is a risk these adult file sharing networks and tube sites are willing to take. They pretty much took over an entire industry, and less than 1% of content owners actually stood up and did something beyond sending a fucking DMCA complaint. Maybe they make $100 million and pay a $3-4 million settlement to one or two content producers that actually do something about it.
People in this industry are weak in general. Maybe it's because they're afraid to work with the law or maybe it's because they're just plain fucking lazy.
The whole epass situation is classic example of it. How many people who got ripped off do you think filled out a simple IC3 complaint form and followed up on it? My guess is significantly less than 1%. How many people do you think contacted the local district attorney where Chris Mallick resides? Probably no one.
Instead they spent more time posting pictures of the guy's fucking family on GFY. As if that's constructive or going to produce any positive results.