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Originally Posted by AGS-17
Almost all of them and largest are depositfiles.com, hotfile.com.
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You're not up to date. Hotfile is still big, but their traffic is dropping like a rock, because they have 3-strikes policy against repeat offenders and they really do observe it. They're not big in adult anymore, since about 1.5 years ago when they were first sued by major studious. We send 2-3 links/month to them for removal on average, so they're almost not a problem anymore. Almost impossible to find hotfile links on adult piracy sites nowadays. And they also do honestly use MD5 hashes to block repeat uploads of the removed files. There is really no sense wasting our limited time and efforts on hotfile, especially since they still have a lawsuit vs major studios such as Disney pending, which will most likely get them bunkrupt when the ruling comes out.
Depositfiles is a problem, yes, but not the biggest one, by far. They do have repeat infringer policy, and MD5 blocking, but they seem to implement both selectively - when they think a company that sends them DMCA can cause them more trouble than it is worth. They're used by adult content pirates, but they're not the host of choice for most of them. And they also have lots of lawsuits pending too, and they're on the top priority hit list for MPAA and RIAA - let them handle this issue, and not waste our scarce resource on them.
Adult piracy wise, the worst offenders are: oron, extabit, rapidgator, letitbit, turbobit, netload, and also a bunch of new hosts that are popping up left and right recently. We should concentrate our efforts on those ones, and "outsource" to hollywood the rest of them.