This post is to clear up some things, quite basic things.
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Originally Posted by notjoe
0 Tubes have been shut down. 0 Affiliate programs that support tubesites and their whole piracy model have been shut down. What a FANTASTIC job AK is doing.
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Originally Posted by peterk
how many tube sites been shut down?
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The Project at hand is STOP FILE LOCKERS.
We have deliberately kept our focus narrow to file lockers because quite frankly it's taking a long time to deal with them. If others wish to commence their own campaigns going after other things then they should do so.
Asking us how many tube sites we have shut down is like asking us to shut down Silk Road. Tubes are not our focus, Silk Road is not our focus, our current focus is on file lockers and enabling sites or sites associated with the file locker eco system.
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Originally Posted by London Banker
I just posted the facts that AK never goes for huge file lockers. And in turn I was called a pirate (I dont run any tubes or filelockers).
If AK closed down 1 huge filelocker, it would probably outweight a big number of small ones that he posted about.
So far it just looks like he intentionally avoids big players.
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The statement above is completely untrue and shows ignorance of what we have actually been doing.
FileFactory, DepositFiles, 4Shared, Uploading, MediaFire were all relatively large file lockers and all of them have lost Paypal.
What you need to understand is that in most cases a mountain of evidence is required to have Paypal shut down a sites payment processing. All of the work we do is painstaking, detailed and forensic.
Larger sites take much longer to deal with than smaller sites. Stop File Lockers has been going just over 50 days. What do you expect to happen in such a short period of time ?
That said, we do not differentiate between sites based on their size or any other attribute. The sole reason you see more smaller sites shut down than larger sites is that smaller sites are simply much easier to shut down. That doesn't mean we're not working on larger sites, of course we are, but we're never going to give anyone the heads up to indicate who we are targeting and how.
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Originally Posted by krylon
What don't you get? He's only going after sites that process with PayPal. Since PayPal TOS is pretty strict and straight forward when it comes to porn.
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Actually this is incorrect. We are working to have all forms of payment processing shut down for every illegal file locker, this is our aim.