This was their reply to my DMCA:

"Please be aware CloudFlare is a network provider offering a reverse proxy, pass-through security service. We are not a hosting provider. CloudFlare does not control the content of our customers."

Translation..."Wasn't me".

Contact me and I'll arrange to speak to you offline

https://copycontrol.org/contact-us/

CloudFlare founders even dress up as pirates. Fuck CloudFlare

http://cdni.wired.co.uk/1240x826/s_v/Sushi.jpg

what's the story on keep2share? they're dragging their heels over DMCAs sent

Anyone else have the go slow treatment with these monekeys?

No delays from K2S. The most problematic heel draggers seem to be the tiny lockers.

Sonic Locker had a bit of a cry about losing their Paypal account.

Put simply, you don't go recruiting from WJunction.com if you want to run a legitimate cloud service.

Thieves never think they are in the wrong and always find ways to justify their actions.

One thief told me that if I didn't want my content stolen then I shouldn't post it on the web. This is their thought process. So basically don't own anything unless you want it stolen.

We had kingfiles.net Paypal account shut down, in this case they cannot pay uploaders or receive payments using Paypal.

We are now seeking to shut down the Paypal accounts of all file lockers using Paypal to send payments to uploaders.

This is intense.

everyone wants to eat. there's nothing bad about it
AK is legit until he chases filelockers. he successfully does that, so who cares about other things

That so called story is so full of crap I don't know where to begin.

Firstly, we are in a physical office located at Level 9, 440 Collins Street Melbourne.

Our rent as of now is $2,200.00 per month. Last month our rent plus sundry expenses was $2541.37.

As we employ more people and need more space we will be moving to a much larger office on the same floor which will cost us $4000 per month plus GST.

The Virtual office provider you have "uncovered" is in fact another tenant on the same floor.

If you google "Level 9, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000" then you will find several companies reside on that floor.

Our office number goes to our reception during business hours and after hours goes to a 24 hour 7 day overflow service so we can receive calls at any time.

As for our legal costs. We have dedicated legal support from a boutique Melbourne based IP law firm.

As for you TrueTraffic/ScrollDog/To0/Richard Humphrey let's explore your history:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...house_arre st

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/A...0-crm-447.html

TrueTraffic is indeed Richard Humphrey who set up a blog pretending to be a "news" site. Arrested and jailed for piracy amongst other things.

Through this blog he manages to add 1 + 1 and reach the number 5.

It's amazing what lengths these pirates will go to in order to attempt to discredit us when they claim in the same breath we don't have any impact.

For those that really despise these smug pirates, you can help us make their life hell.

We have recurring or one of Paypal contributions which can be made at https://copycontrol.org/contribute

or alternatively you can send us funds via Paxum to [email protected]

Don't let these smug, self serving thieves win.

This is intense indeed, but at the same time funny and not surprising at all.

I wonder does cleaning a virtual office work? Do you get one of those virtual desktop naked Mexican pornstars to clean your virtual toilets lol?
AK's response sounds very weak to be honest, does not inspire any kind of confidence no matter how much of it actually true or not and as always it ends with asking for money.

I have been watching this since the beginning and my doubts and opinions are only being confirmed. AK took tens of thousands from Manwin, God knows how much he takes from Uploaded.net on monthly basis and also rips off already struggling webmasters. How does that new car working out for you AK?

Anyway all those donating to AK, have you thought about who is AK? What do you know about him? He obviously runs a business and feeds of of you.

If some company finally goes after him for tortious interference or some similar thing, my guess would be that AK will disclose every contributor during discovery and those would technically be accomplices, financing hacks and what not (we probably can't even begin to imagine the kind of crap he really does that we don't see). After all, AK does not discuss current operational details.

Wow. Looking to spend $4000 a month in donations on rent alone. But lying and paying a few hundred bucks for a few months with a virtual address.

What a fucking waste.

Your records should be wide open and transparent.

My responsive is definitive, we have physical offices. What your little friends did was Google our address, find a virtual office supplier who resides on the other side of our floor and call them pretending to want a virtual office like us. There are several companies on this floor.

Then being the "smart detectives" they are they rang our number out of hours, went to the overflow line which is answered 24/7 because we deal with people globally.

Then they decided we must be in a virtual office because they rang our office number after hours.

We do not receive and have not received any money from Uploaded and we would not accept any money from them either.

Our funding arrangement with Manwin concluded months ago.


It's self serving for you to instil doubt as you benefit from illegal activity. You're just another pirate parasite feeding off content that does not belong to you.

I'd love a commercial piracy operation to come after us, then we could subpoena all sorts of information most of you guys would prefer didn't come out.

We are not using a virtual office. We have a physical office housing desks for five people in two rooms. Every day there is a minimum of three people (including myself) working here.

As stated above, given the huge number of files and our for more space for people, documents and equipment we will soon have to move into larger space on the same floor.

Anyone who wants to hit me up on Skype is welcome to a video tour of our offices, I'll walk around the whole complex with my iPad and show you where we work.

and i thought kim.com hired AK for this ...
sucks my bad.
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Honestly AK if the most amount of dirt they can find on you is a discrepancy between a physical office or a virtual office then I think you are doing pretty damn good. As someone on the front lines, who is sending out dozens of DMCA's every day, there is no denying that your efforts are making things tougher for the File Locker World and I commend you for it and will continue to donate monthly.

And they didn't even find such a discrepancy, they just made it up.

This is what Virtual HQ (who share our floor) said to them

I guess we shouldn't be too surprised that thieves are also liars. Rudy Corella is a well experienced liar and fraudster, fined $400,000 by Washington State for computer crimes/consumer fraud, as the document below proves:

http://www.atg.wa.gov/uploadedFiles/...ella050208.pdf

Lol too bad this email you listed is only the first email between the two. More info gave more results.lol

I'll post the whole exchange shall I ?

Continued below?..

Continued ?..

As I said, we are not a client of Virtual HQ. Virtual HQ only share the same floor as our office. They have nothing to do with us other than us bumping into them in the lifts from time to time.

We have a physical office, as do more than eight other companies on Level 9. In fact our office area is larger than that of Virtual HQ. Virtual HQ do not actually have a full time physical presence here as they are based in Sydney.

LOL AK
you're an easy catch for trolls
you shouldn't give any other explanation than fuck off

I dont care either way as it does not effect me but i like the drama and I figure this will only get more and more interesting.

It's important to correct the record, especially when these thieves produce websites dressed up to look like news, when in fact the people making these reports are convicted criminals.

Thanks for the bump.

It's funny how much effort people will go to in order to try to discredit our project when in the same breath they will say we are having no effect.

Every time one of the trolls, pirate sympathisers, file locker owners or piracy web masters has a whinge, a cry, a little whine or writes about us in their little blogs we know that they are thinking about us, that we're getting to them and that they're hurting.

I don't see anything funny about this situation here, these kinds of things need to be seriously addressed. These articles are your own doing, no one else's.

The "trolls, pirate sympathizers, file locker owners and piracy webmasters" are not the ones to blame when articles like this arise. You are. Take some credibility for once.

Diversion tactics and manipulation will only get you so far...

You've made claims we don't have a physical office , which we do, we've addressed it time and time again.

We can't be held responsible because criminals like yourself make up stories.

But thanks for caring enough to post.

You've addressed many claims time and time again during your unscrupulous past. Mind boggling how pittance of published $30 donations fund $2000.00 a month office rental when weeks prior you were closing shop. Bob collects $500.00, the office is electrified, his bots are activated, coffee, water cooler, gas and electric paid and Bob King returns as the Terminator. Really?

We have had this office since mid 2012, it's nothing new. The address has been on the Copy Control website for over a year.

We don't pay outgoings, they are included in our lease agreement. We do pay for phones, internet and an overflow call answering service for out of hours.

Your maths is skewed as I don't collect a cent from this project. That has also been repeated ad infinitum.

Interesting....

So a company that you simply "bump into from time to time" miraculously forwards you emails?

A company that "has nothing to do with you" answers your phone calls whether someone calls at 9AM or 2PM (your time). I just called your office #. It's 3:00PM there right now. Reached the same lady that's on the voice recording at ScrollDog. :1orglaugh

I've told you once before sir and I'll say it to you again.

You are the master of your own undoing, nobody else.

You're lying, you rang our overflow number, ring our office number and I'll talk to you.

Here's our office

This is reception with the boardroom on the left and meeting room slight left.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten.../reception.jpg

Here is my office where my assistant and I work.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...11/office1.jpg

This is our second office room where our programmer is currently working.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...11/office2.jpg

and here is the empty office we are moving to because we are out of space for documents, people and equipment.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...new-office.jpg

For anyone that wants to call our office number is on our website.

Is this guy Markham in disguise ?

No, TrueTraffic is Richard Humphrey, a convicted pirate and general no hoper who other than being a moderator on WJunction also runs a website called ScrollDog. His website has more fantasy on it than a book of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

I don't get a clue of all these information snippets around and that for will not support this case until I what I do. Just my 2 cents...

All these claimed expenses sound very bloated and could easily be cut if you are facing troubles in financing the whole project.

For example: What the hell do you need Adobe Creative Cloud for? Are you doing webdesign jobs in part time to get some money in? You list three similar points (Cloud Services, SaaS, Server Fees, Cloud based virtual server fees)...

You claim that you collected 5k but need 9k to run the project at the current level, but now you go for an even more expensive office and almost want to double your office expenses?

You claim that you don't earn any money from it. What about your employees? I mean: All of us need to eat something...

The case is good if you look at it, but with all that lack of information it's impossible to get a clue about your whole project and what your motivation is. If you can't even cover your claimed costs and don't earn anything from the project, why do you continue making losses and want to expand the costs without increasing the income?

There are just a few cases left for me:
- You have enough money and are masochistic and want to loose more and more money... If so: Go for it!
- You are paid by some source you don't tell here to protect it (Tubes? some big filelocker(s)?)... If so: Hope you will fail really bad with it!
- You are just a one-man show and not able to earn some money in any other way so you thought about starting this campaign and claim high costs and bullshit... Without me!
- You believe in the industry that they will support you some day and your business will become profitable for you and you are able to invest some money to keep it going now. If so, you'll have to get more transparency or you will fail since it will not change significantly when you don't change it.

At the moment it smells very fishy for me...

Loving the "love" they are giving AK! haw haw haw! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

say again :eyecrazy

Sorry, didn't read my post after changing some wording. Should be: "... until I know what it's all for."

AK please stop reacting on those haters.
your mission is great, bright ppl are on your site. don't waste your time on that bs

Look at all these pirate sock puppets coming to snipe, cry or provide their "expert" advice on how to run an anti piracy operation.


I find it quite plausible you don't have a clue, carry on.

Let me guess, you've never run anything except a website from your $3 a month hosting and probably never actually had to pay for what you use ?

Have you ever paid for software ?

Photoshop is used to prepare images to be placed into reports, Adobe Acrobat Pro is used to create PDF reports from pre-defined templates for delivery to various organisations and agencies. Creative Cloud is $49 a month, cheaper than buying Photoshop and Acrobat Pro on subscription.

We have a fundraising campaign, in which we collected $5558.82 for the month of October. We also have expenses, however we also have external funding from several companies/individuals.

As for our office expenses, we currently pay for the office space shown above plus external document storage. The cost to us in time and money for deposits and retrievals to our document store combined with the need to more space mean that we need to do something, so what would you suggest as an alternative ?

Employees are paid. However one of our team is on loan to us and another is paid by Copy Control.

The reason we do it is to hurt people like you. Let's look at your posts - you've only signed up here to comment on this thread.

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?p=19851096#post19851096

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?p=19864871#post19864871

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?p=19864888#post19864888

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?p=19866435#post19866435

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?p=19874216#post19874216



It's spelt "lose".

We receive no funding from any of these sources.

I may be the public face of this project but we have a dedicated team of people who volunteer their time and resources to make life difficult for guys like you.

Typical pirate mentality and twisted logic. You don't think outside of that little closed box you live in do you ? Because you are so used to stealing and misappropriating other people's work you think there has to be an angle, a hidden agenda. You're wrong.

Care Factor Zero.