This needs its own thread :thumbsup

No, I am not.

Site: http://filedwon.com

Owner: Abdul Haque
Site: http://www.upgiga.com

Owner: T7 Technologies Pte Ltd
Site: http://filestor.com.sg

These sites have all lost Paypal today.

123SUPERSHARE.COM has had it's servers shut down and payment methods (Paypal/Skrill(Moneybookers) and Payza terminated.

http://www.123supershare.com/premium.html

DIVX-DB.COM - Gone. No servers. No Payment methods. Desperately trying to recover.

http://www.divx-db.com/premium.html

AK

You rock !!!!

Keep on going after these scum

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

AK droppin' bombs.

That will ruin a thief's weekend.

wow this thread is looking better without the drama and action showing more. Good job

Excellent job as always AK!

looks like some resellers are glad to have biz with FL
http://dfiles.ru/gold/payment.php

"- Please don't buy new extabit premium accounts for the next 2 weeks. They have big issues with their payment processor and we might be forced to drop them! Just a warning..."

ahahahahahahaha

We've been knocking out resellers continuously. They cycle through them.

File Lockers are being marginalised when it comes to payment processing, the further out the edges they get pushed, the more merchant accounts shut down, the more bank relationships that are severed the harder it get's for them.

This project has kept the pressure on the file lockers.

sent another $150 to keep the campaign running

any update on how things are in general?

Thank you

I'll be making a significant announcement this coming week.

damn, looks like these sites are always popping up .

anyways you should have accepted that offer, coz you will never know when the rest of world/fuckers start supporting file lockers or something like that, its just about time.
then it will be just like tubes in adults....file lockers in mainstream.
just my random thoughts.

anyways good decision. i respect it.

Tubes running legal or licensed content are one thing.

Most file lockers thrive soling on indexing someones entire portfolio of work.
Several site rips have been shown here as an example and the fact that fileserve.com, filesonic.com, and a few others folded there sites to only people can download what they uploaded is direct proof they knew what they were doing was illegal.

I honestly think it takes a level of intelligence that is a fair portion above average to understand the extent of the problem, based on the peoples' response to the problem and understanding.

nice to see this still going! now we need someone who can get the torrent sites results from googles first pages ... :mad: keep up the good work! :thumbsup

Payment processing won't be any easier for the new owner.

thanks, i clearly missed the legal/illegal tubes but there are no/very less legal file lockers.

and btw how many ppl financially contribute to your campaign?
have you got some financing from big industry players?

not enough.

However we appreciate the support of those who have chipped in.

yes.

We have had generous support from Manwin to date. (Fabian has already posted several times that they have supported us.)

We have also had generous support from others, however I am not sure who want's to be publicly acknowledged or not so I won't name names.

There are also other companies, such as CrakMedia, who promised support then reneged.

The Stop File Lockers project began in late June 2012 and has run for 15 months.

In that time we have seen:

*hundreds of file locker and other piracy sites shut down,
*more than a (cumulative) thousand Paypal, Pazya, Moneybookers and other third party peer to peer and seller accounts shut down,
* Around 100 merchant accounts shut down and more than another sixty shut down by third party co-operation,
* Three third party billers lose the ability to accept Paypal.
* Hundreds of file locker resellers on eBay have their listings of file locker vouchers and memberships terminated,
*We have recast the way in which file lockers are viewed by many organisations,

We have also shut down blogs, debrid sites, image hosts, forums and link sharing sites.

Unfortunately at the end of September we finally ran out of funds and the resources just don't exist to keep this effort going any longer. In fact, we now face a deficit in the vicinity of $15,000.

Unless a source of funding is found, all operational aspects of the Stop File Lockers project and Copy Control will cease at midnight on Friday 4th October (AEST). This project has lived only through industry support.

At this time we will stop accepting notices to [email protected], all reporting and detection systems will be taken offline and no further mailed copies of infringements and DMCA notices will be received.

I will post a reminder on Friday morning to all parties sending copies of notices to us that the systems will go offline and from midnight on that day emails to [email protected] will bounce.

I would like to thank every person, company and organisation that has provided support (financial and otherwise) to the project. I would especially like to thank those people who worked and participated behind the scenes in our team room/project management environment, Podio.

To all those people and companies who sent us a steady stream of evidence, I would also like to thank you as without the data and information collected we would not have been able to achieve the results we did.

Oh dear me.

i am not surprised.

no no no nooooooooooooooooooo

if he stops the cancer is going to overtake this fucking industry ((((

I don't plan on engaging in a running commentary on the merit or degree of success of the project going forward. I'll leave that to others.

My commitment to the project has never waned, however the harsh reality is that what we did cost money. Resources used included distributed cloud server time for detection and verification systems, legal costs, back end systems, international couriers for paper based evidence, technical services such as programming and scripting of tools, conference call facilities, travel and accommodation for meetings, video conferencing, lease on office space and so on.

Without ongoing financial support it's impossible for any one person to mount an operation as extensive as the one we were running. As it is we ran on the bare necessities to get the job done and not one single participant in the project (other than professional service providers) was paid. All the collaboration was done by volunteers including myself.

We had been in discussions to keep the project funded, however it became clear by September 30 that there was no guarantee of ongoing funding. Given the fact that we ran out of money at the end of September and without a commitment by any sponsor for ongoing funding, the project just has to shut down.

I hope that helps put the reasons for the closure in perspective.

Unless a sponsor steps forward the project will close according to the timetable previously posted. In the absence of such an occurrence I don't have anything else to add to the thread.

Does anyone have a DMCA Email address for filestube.com?

They have already removed it from their DMCA page.

Don't close it man. Just slow it down and moth ball it a little - limp it along for a while.. guys like me who are major piracy victims know first hand how much good you are doing. Hate to see this project abandoned.

Well give him $15000.

That is what he is shooting for.

hire a real dmca service. if you cant afford them, well..
just stating the facts
ds

I'm faster than most real dmca services.


Are you always an asshole, or are you just cranky today because the gerbil bit on the way in?

Sorry,
I'm not being am asshole. I'm just saying you'll never make a dent yourself. We have a full time staff, & 2 dmca services & barely make a dent.

Each site owner/producer is trying to fight their own battle against piracy and the problem here is asking a few to help fight a war. This approach will never succeed long-term because it takes an army to fight a war, not just a few gung ho soldiers.

It's impossible for a site owner/producer to measure the success of a campaign like this so that's why there are limited contributions.

instead of donations make a 20$-30$ rebill account and I am sure many of us will subscribe.

No problem. I just get a little "funny" sometimes when discussing this topic.

Timely DMCA's do help a little bit, but the only thing that could have resulted in real change was what AK attempted.

Speaking about torrent freak:
http://torrentfreak.com/stopfilelock...utdown-131002/

Lol these comments.

"The internet is now telling you to get fucked, asshole King."
"This guy doesn't care about the law, he just cares about fucking companies over, legal or not."