F- yes. Those pricks. They don't even have an Abuse page or contact email. They only remove after I've CC'd Paypal Infringement the complaint, and then it's 5 days later.

I'm not so sure anymore if MPAA/RIAA are really serious about stopping piracy. They've been pretty much useless this year - they just keep publishing their garbage "watchlists", but after the MU raid there has been no real serious action. They didn't even kill thepiratebay, despite them being alsmost finished after the Supreme Court ruling. Their Dutch proxy BREIN is all but useless - Leaseweb and Ecatel are the largest piracy heavens on Earth, but BREIN takes no action, aside from occasionally closing some small torrent site or two. Their Swedish proxy is equally useless - in January they stated that they'll go after the Swedish torrents hard, but nothing happened.

Piracy has been a disaster for small and medium size independent studios and labels, who lived of off DVD and CD sales. But not so much for Hollywood and big music labels, because they're the ones who control revenue streams that were almost unaffected by piracy - movie theaters, concert venues, TV licenses etc. And also they're the ones who create stars and control them, and promote them to the worldwide status. Piracy costs them some money, but provides them with the biggest power and influence they ever had, because it destroys competition and creates situation where if you're not in their system, you cannot make money at all.

That's the irony of it. Pirates always point their fingers to Hollywood to justify them being thieves, and to make themselves look as some sort of "freedom fighters" who fight the oppression from huge greedy corps. While in reality they provide those "greedy corps" with the outstanding amount of power and influence, by killing the long tail of their competition and alternate income sources.

I'm on a call with RIAA this evening my time, Monday morning US time.

I'm also speaking to AVN soon after.

I'm off to have some food and a few hours sleep before I get all of todays updates together and get back online.

http://paste.org/51453 nice list btw! ;0

The approach AK has is a completely new angle and might reinvigorate them into action. Getting more of the smaller studios would be great as well. To stop the money flow of piracy is the key to reducing it to kids sharing as it was. As you point out some of the hosts are making a lot of money from piracy. Money flow stutters, the bills don't. :thumbsup

emailed and phoned them all :winkwink:

That's some seriously sad shit, dude. Are you talking about your MS or the fact that these guys are possibly coming to murder you? I hope your security has large calibre automatic weapons, and I hope you have plenty of HD-CCD security cameras with plenty of storage redundancy.

I hope you're taking as many precautions as you can possibly take.

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Looks like the Russians are a wee bit upset and are trying to fight back
http://forum.searchengines.ru/showpo...postcount=1059

Fuck them

and some Russian supporters
http://www.master-x.com/forum/topics/162840/

Pin this thread!!!!

what DWB said

All of these pirate idiots are funny dudes.

I know you all read this thread, so get this through your heads and read it over and over until it sinks in: What AK or anyone else involved in this project does for a living, did in the past, or may do in the future, has NOTHING to do with the fact that the file lockers you are using host illegal content and are against the AUP of the billing companies.

That is some bullshit right there. So, whether the site is legitimate or not, whether it has pirated movies or software or not makes no difference to you. In the beginning when I questioned you said that you would not target anyone who was legal but now I see you will go after any file locker who has an affiliate program but that does not have illegal content.

I think you've lost sight and are now on a which hunt and just looking for anyone or thing you can target.

Selective reading and selective logic - maybe just maybe you need to venture to stopfilelockers and coldcopy and see for yourself what is transpiring :2 cents:

Far from it. I've been following it from the beginning. I was wondering when his crusade would go in this direction. He is now going after any file locker because it might have an affiliate program.

Time would be better spent taking down the sites which violate IP/Copyright law rather than taking down a site with no violations just so you can +1 your stats.

like I said selective

How is it selective? It's an exact quote of what he said.

Lol show us just one such site that has an affiliate program and is not used to sell absurd amounts of copyrighted works. Even those filehosts that do not have an affiliate program, such as Rapidshare, are still full of stolen shit and selling of premium accounts to download that shit fast is their primary source of income. While those file hosts that have an affiliate program, I cannot even fathom which one of them could be even remotedly considered legit.

It's all theory about those legit filelockers. Show us just one REAL example of such legit file locker with an affiliate program, and I'm sure AK will make a point of not targetting it, and he'll also make sure to never say he's after ALL of them again. Until you show us real example(s) it's all theory and basically typical pro-piracy rant about not stepping over the "freedoms" and not targetting "legit" sites. None of us have ever seen such a legit filhosting site with an affiliate program in our entire lifespan, that's why AK and the rest of us are saying that we're after all of them. But if you can prove us wrong and show real examples, and post proof to show those sites are indeed legit, I'm sure AK will be happy to exclude them from the hit list. Neither he or any one of us is here to spend time on nothing and going after the sites that are legit and do not hurt our business in the least bit.

What fuels uploaders? Certainly NOT altruistism; it is the reward of spendable cash. The cadre of upload monkeys in India, Philippines, Ukraine, Russia and Africa only do so because the yearning for cash. Unlike most, these mofos steal for a living. You dont see 100,000 downloads of Betty Sue's birthday - hell now it is the latest box office release, Win7, ColdFusion, AutoCad, FontFolio and Alina's AssHole Expansion. Stop the flow of contraband money anyway how

You will if Betty Sue is 12 years old and naked.

I have better things to do than search the web. You guys are already obviously doing just that. I'm not pro-piracy so don't label me as such. Tubes and file lockers hurt everyone in this business. I never said i disagreed with what AK was doing and in fact I support it. What I AM against is going after the sites with no violations just because they do have an affiliate program. I do believe a person is innocent until proven guilty. An affiliate program is not proof of being guilty...Stolen content and CP is.

But you do understand that the sites with the affiliate programs have people uploading pirated goods, don't you? They have to load stuff everyone wants, which they normally would have to pay for, otherwise people won't download them in masses and the uploader get paid for it.

If they pay per 1000 downloads. How is an affiliate going to make money loading shit that no one wants or can get for free everywhere else? They can't. Thus the masses loading pirated material, the latest software, movies, latest porn, and child porn. They need those downloads to make money. 1000 at a time to make $3. This is not rocket science. Those with affiliate programs are the largest pirate operations. That is a fact.

What you do not seem to be able to grasp is the concept that shutting down of site requires PROOF. It's not like AK can simply ICQ a one liner to paypal "hey pals @paypal plz shut down dat crazy saka" and get this site's pp account closed. They need proof, and the bigger the site, the more proof they want.

If those theoretical legit file lockers with an affiliate program do really exist, the best defence for them from what AK is doing will be to just stay legit. He'll not be able to collect evidence if there's none, and this site will go on about their business without bumping into the problems with either paypal or any other cc processor they might use.

:2 cents::2 cents::2 cents:

EVERY account is investigated by Paypal directly. Not by AK. He simply points them in the right direction and makes them aware of possible files to look at. If it's found to be in violation of their AUP, they terminate the account.

Also, Paypal is not downloading child porn. They have a legal obligation to report it to the proper authorities. So I won't be surprised if arrests come out of this at a later time for those sites where it turns out the CP listings were legitimate and not just a ploy to get clicks / downloads, which within itself violates Paypal's AUP and is enough to get the account terminated.

true DWB :winkwink:

Ok Guys. Its been a long day and there were lots of developments late last week and over the weekend that I couldn't discuss for legal and other reasons.

I haven't posted these to the blog, I thought I'd let you all share in the news first together.

The following sites have all had their Paypal relationships irrevocably terminated. All funds frozen for 180 days, no transfers or withdrawals allowed.

http://www.uploading.com
http://Premium2vouchers.com (Major Reseller completely gone with Paypal)
http://www.cramit.in
http://peerdrive.com
http://ssakura.com
http://imgchilli.com
http://filedefend.com (3rd time)
http://filegag.com (3rd time)
http://letitbit.net
http://upstore.com
http://hitfile.com
http://easyshare.com
http://filestay.com
http://pigsonic.com (3rd time)
http://filerose.com (4th time)

Hope you all enjoy the news.

Can you explain how he brings down a 100% legal file locker?

Not that this is about the law, it's about breaking the rules of the processor. :thumbsup

I know it's been said, just want to hammer in the nail a bit more.

You're a hasbeen that never was.

You're not worth the time to elaborate further.

I'm in the process of uploading Robbie's memberarea to about 25 filelockers.

We most certainly do :thumbsup

But are you sure about letitbit and easyshare? I just checked and their pp account seem to be working to accept payments.

Just want to say, very very well done. :thumbsup


= He can't.

Alex Gubarev is going to be very disappointed.

:winkwink::winkwink::winkwink:

The uploaders don't need fast internet connection, they use remote upload.

Story will develop here overnight. Theres alot of work to do on the blog.


http://stopfilelockers.com/huge-payp...-file-lockers/


This has been a difficult and lengthy process and even more so for Paypal who are extremely careful to investigate all these on a case by case basis requiring huge manpower and massive resources.

If they are working then they have switched to backup accounts they had on ice, if so then they will be terminated quickly tomorrow morning.

seems like AK is getting tired :-)
Some of the URLs are simply wrong(letitbit.NET, hitfile.NET, EASY-SHARE and etc), and many of the reported victims, actually the big ones(letitbit, easy-share), still accept PayPal on their pages...

I have confirmed letitbit have switched accounts and they will be dealt with in the morning. As will Easy-Share.

Thanks for picking up my typos, when you're typing out lots of urls all day it's possible to stuff up every now and then.

MediaFire voluntarily turns off PayPal
 

MediaFire.com

Panic is setting in. :thumbsup

I just hope you don't send wrong URLs to PP, VISA/MC and etc also :)
Taking letitbit PP down would be a huge win.

I was embargoed on Mediafire until midnight, looks like the beat me to the punch.

A few other one's (one pretty big which has been asked about alot here recently) is also going to lose Paypal overnight but I cannot say it's name yet.

As for my typing, it's hard to type with MS and I have my staff do most of the actual hard yakka as I co-ordinate this.

We will have a collaboration system up this week which will allow even more people to become involved.

Letitbit is gone, they have switched to a backup account, they will be instantly terminated during business hours tomorrow I am sure.

wow ...

List updated and corrected here

http://stopfilelockers.com/huge-payp...-file-lockers/

As I said, there are a couple of big ones which will be gone soon enough. You'll know once I have confirmed it.

That is so amazing I'm speachless. Mediafire is the BIGGEST file host in the world.

We've still got a long way to go though. But we'll do it, I am certain we will hit these sites where they hurt most, the hip pocket.


Comment on the blog

I didn't approve the comment, I'm just deleting outright retards.

Why there is not yet a page on wikipedia about AdultKing and StopFileLockers ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...elockers&go=Go

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...ulltext=Search

Someone may create them. These may link to a page such as "Summer 2012 File Lockers Mass Genocide" or "FileLockers Mass Extinction 2012 Event", where the story is told, and kept updated. Since google puts wikipedia results in top nearlt always, chance is by search file locker or file sharing etc. those pages will be top or first page, letting aware more people about the true story.

I've just deleted about 200 comment form emails sent in the past hour. :(

Lot's of really nasty stuff, the best will go in the praise and threats section a bit later.

If these lockers were smart, they would all do the same and clean up their act at the same time. That way they would not get funds frozen or possibly lost.

There's more news coming, I just cannot report it yet. People will be surprised I believe.