The sooner they die, the better!

What's news on Upstore? They refuse to remove their repeat offenders, there's one continually re uploading content of each site in my niche systematically at the mo with premium links offered by PM when the free ones are removed quickly! What a douche! It made one of my fellow producers cry when she saw her stuff totally site ripped :(

Must send you something even if I am broke!

makes you sick when you think how much money some of these guys are taking off our hard earned work! :(

i'm back
nice to see it's going. making another donation pretty soon

I've sent you some funds, keep up the good fight: as one retailer in our country says...

"Every Little Helps!"

bump for AK and killing all the filelockers :)

There's no doubt that Upstore is a serious problem. However we need rights holders to be a lot more proactive in sending DMCA notices to Google for this site:

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...s/upstore.net/

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ains/upsto.re/

Google indexes files on upstore, the format appearing in Google is as follows:

http://upstore.net/sf3Hri

By matching Google SERPs to infringing files and then issuing a DMCA to Google for the link in the SERPs you provide us with more ammunition that we can rely upon. The Google transparency report provides a useful public resource for us to show the scale of abuse.

It's really important that rights holders use their right to send DMCA notices to the fullest effect. This means sending them to the infringing site, the search engines, the domain registrars, the hosting companies and sending copies to [email protected]

Thanks also for your contribution to helping us keep running.

Thank you, we need all the support we can get as this project can only survive with industry support.

Thank you , yes it does.

I'm currently away and having some informal meetings over the next several days with people and organisations from the APAC region with the view to furthering co-operation in the area of interfering with the operation of some of the worst recalcitrant file lockers and those who do business with them.

imagevenue.com & imageporter.com
 

Anybody have DMCA addresses for the following two clowns?

imagevenue.com

imageporter.com

Oddly enough they both seem to have, shall we say, forgotten to include any contact Email addresses on their respective websites.

bump........

Scratch imagevenue, I've finally found that one.

I still need an Email address for imageporter though.

Contact their host and registrar with the DMCA's if they do not include contact info. You should really do that anyway though if you read above AK mentions that.

They have a contact form: http://www.imageporter.com/contact.html

I couldn't find any sort of email though.


I found imagevenue's email
Sign the notice with an electronic signature and email it to imagevenue(@)gmail.com.

For imageporter.com ensure you send DMCA notices to their host, their domain registrar and to both Google and Bing.

What's the best email for Google and Bing DMCA's?

your just making them a guide.

https://support.google.com/legal/tro.../1114905?hl=en


https://www.microsoft.com/info/FormForSearch.aspx

money sent

please find some time for my ask to get your campaign introduced at Signbucks

Maybe if he loses his anonymity... I just sent you a message on ICQ.

:winkwink:

Thanks.

I'll be back in Melbourne tomorrow and will try to find time to make an announcement then.

Most pirates don't like it when their true identity is revealed. They especially don't like it when the discovery of their identity leads to a knock on the door. :2 cents:

I just sent him a friendly message.

Domains Pimp20 owns or has owned... imagezor.info, fat15cure.com, imgadult.com, xxxroom.net

Good find. This guy is a real piece of shit and has made a lot of money off other people's hard work. I'm sure he'd like to have all his personal info posted on here.

And then there was a sudden bit of intense activity on the whois and several listing sites for those domains.

You have to be discreet before putting it all in the street.

No idea but it would be pretty easy to automate nearly everything. :2 cents:

Everything is automated, there are auto poster scripts, auto-leeching scripts, remote desktops for slow or blocked connections.

My stuff gets reposted so fast that I am starting to suspect that the posters are being notified before the videos are being removed, so that they are able to repost them and get the new links posted within minutes of the videos being removed.

Many of the filelockers have a tab for pirates that shows them what files were deleted, and some even let them "refresh" them into active files again... they just hit a button and generate a new link. That's illegal, of course.

I think they also notify them by email.

Well, here's proof that Upstore do this and this screenshot and many more like it should be all the proof one needs to damn them in a court of law. They never remove files from THEIR servers as requested, we know that, of course. They allow new links of existing files... here's one uploader who has changed his url from the original file name to a new url that is supposed to help disguise the file name. Sadly for him it appears this isn't working as the file got reported (again).

Feel free to investigate this further if needed :)

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1084/o673.jpg

Funny thing, uploads of my content have stopped the last few days.

bump....

In the case of Rapidgator, the uploader will get an email or a message in the uploader back end which notifies that a file will be deleted for DMCA. This gives them plenty of time to import the file into another account or re-upload the file.

With other file lockers a range of different methods are used to re-upload the file, ranging from simply changing the file name to importing from another file locker or torrent leach. The clever uploaders automate pretty much everything.

Correct. The level of sophistication some uploaders use is amazing.

Correct.

Upstore are a big problem, however we might have found a weakness to exploit with them.

Where they can be identified we are starting to shut down the services used by pirates. This includes having their remote desktops killed.

Hotfile are trying to do reputation management on information about them on the Stop File Lockers blog. This tactic won't work, it just means we will step up our campaign against them - pushing hard to have all monetization options shut down.

another new filelocker that some of our infringing pirates in our niche love to bits...
maybe you've heard of these new kids on the block?

nice affiliate program *sigh*


fileparadox.in

They just keep comming

That's what happens when there's no punishment for theft.

Alas, this site is not new. They have been around for about twelve months.

More file lockers are closing or being shut down than new ones starting.

The punishment we exact is to prevent them from monetizing. We've been quietly pushing some of the larger file lockers further out to the margins. I'd expect several will need to follow in the footsteps of Rapidgator and resort to placing ads all over their sites to survive - but we will hit them there too.

Good News

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...ase-mpaa-says/

That is awesome! Thanks Jimmy!

This is good news.

We managed to convince Paypal to remove Hotfile as a merchant earlier this year. Now we will place enormous pressure on First Data to stop doing business with them.

Hotfile is not only a hotbed of piracy, it's also a hotbed of illegal content.

I thought first data pulled out of high risk processing years ago?
Ds

First Data (Latvia) are currently processing transactions for Hotfile.com.

There is no doubt that cyberlockers are high risk, so I don't know how this equates to them pulling out of high risk.

Keep in mind however that First Data aren't the acquirer, the merchant account my be issued by a bank with processing on the First Data platform.

I'd like to remind everyone that we accept contributions by Paypal or Paxum at [email protected].

We can only keep going with support from this industry.

Bump for some RapidGator attention along with their top douche bag affiliate user PIMP20.

The defacation matter is hitting the oscillating device!!!!!
 

Hello AK,

A friend of mine sent you a couple of gifts in the last few days. 1 very interesting 1 today, I hope you find the gifts useful.

I was told that several announcements were coming very soon that will no doubt shake the Upload Community up significantly.

Regards,

WDF

Yes, The defacation matter is truly hitting the oscillating device!!!!

Where and how were they sent, as I can't see anything ? If it was sent to infringements@ then those emails are automatically processed and not checked by humans.

Check the contact us inbox on SFL, that is where I was told it was sent.

Nothing has been received. Sometimes the form is shut down during denial of service attacks.

A better method is to use this form https://copycontrol.org/contact-us/

I will advise them to resend to that location.

Thanks.

Right now we need the support of this industry more than ever as we carry on the arduous task of running test purchases on file lockers, identifying their acquirers and pursuing banks and other merchant acquirers and payment processors.

Our new strategy is to shut down accounts at the source, rather than the long drawn out process of dealing with the various organisations and bureaucracies at the top end of the payment associations.

Dealing with third parties to help us shut down merchant accounts has become too slow, we also have issues getting up to date information on merchant terminations which means that at times we've directed efforts at already shut down accounts.

Please consider making a contribution to the Stop File Lockers project via Paxum or Paypal at [email protected]

It costs money to make test purchases and then follow these up. The whole process of investigating the payment flows to file lockers and then acting on them is an expensive and time consuming process.

We are making good inroads, however I would like to see us act more quickly - especially with regard to shutting down the merchant accounts of resellers like Download No Limit.

I just sent another $500...

We need more guys to keep this going!

Thanks, you guys have been exceptionally generous, as has a few other regular contributors and this support is not only appreciated but ensures we can keep going.

If anyone else would like to contribute then please do so, there has been no other sustained volunteer anti-piracy effort like the Stop File Lockers project. Every month we face the same budgetary constraints and it's always a juggling effort to keep things going.

We have fixed costs which must be met every month to continue and we are now spending more and more on test purchases to identify the merchant acquirers and payment processors.

Please consider supporting us if you haven't already done so. Contributions can be made to [email protected] either by Paypal or Paxum. We can provide a tax invoice if required, just shoot me an email and we will send you one.