Game over for the pirates.
Love the sound of that!

Ultimately it needs Paypal to realise UGC that's not monitored is always open to piracy and illegal content. Then these sites will have to go look elsewhere and we won't have to employ the Whack a Mole method.

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It is far far from over, infact I think AK's momentum has been stalled. There are still way too many file hosting sites out there happily laughing all the way to bank.
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Talking about that. I reached 150k unique visitors yesterday and about 230 uploaders. I did my first payout 2 days ago which brought me many more uploaders overnight. I'm finding out there are so many payment options including using Paypal indirectly (even if you have a banned account) that there is very little to worry about. There is basically no way to stop this :)

150k, times four popunders per visit, that's 600k popunders.

Nice money!

Mojofile just lost their moneybookers account thanks to Met-Art anti-piracy team:

http://www.mojofile.com/premium.html

No working payment option is availble at this file locker website ATM.

Beautiful...

Yes. If you look past the "this and that filelocker lost their Paypal account" you will notice that basically NOTHING has changed. Maybe a few real small ones who don't know what they are doing lost some uploaders but in general people are uploading just like 3 months ago. I'm pretty sure that my filelocker alone makes up for the few small ones he (might have) stopped.
And to think there are still people here who believe they will get their sales back like it's 2005 again :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
Poor you...

Bump to the top!

It needs more people to step up and lend a hand.

People can't be bothered to donate money. What makes you think they will volunteer free time???

I think it actually needs cooperation from credit card companies. There?s a mountain of evidence out there that shows what these file lockers actually make their money from. All one needs to do is point them in the direction of the pirate forums like pornbb, forumophilia, kitty-kats, etc. I highly doubt any on these files lockers could match file for file legal files on their service compared to the illegal files linked on these boards.

Says it all.

Far from stalled momentum, quite the opposite. :2 cents:

I'll leave the details for AK to uncover when and if he thinks it's the right time.

Just because you don't see things happening in public does not mean nothing is happening :)

Agreed!

I think AK will show soon with breathtaking news...

Actually quite a few donations have been made - sure no really large single amounts as of yet but the act itself counts and means a lot.

This campaign is far from over, to the contrary it is pretty much still in the initial phases so nobody is worried at this point that people are not jumping in head over heels, early adopters and individuals / groups that can see the big picture are already getting on board, there is no doubt in my mind that the early majority, late majority and even the laggards will follow suit.

As this campaign progresses people will simply realize that the Copy Control Group is and will remain the most effective way to combat commercial piracy for the long term.

Waiting for others to step up. :upsidedow

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This is funny -

for reasons out of our control we had to change our URL to
www.kitty-kats.net

not quite in the same league, but seen a legit filesharing/backup/briefcase company called sugarsync using an affiliate program that can sit alongside your public share directory. You can guess what people are sharing and putting in their shared folders :! Nowhere near as public as a trad filelocker, nor do you require it for access, but i know first hand of another company that is planning to go down the same route. They rationalize it as "friends and family" and "viral" upsell, but you can see where it is going to end up. Dropbox dropped their one in 2009, but it is a damn fine way to increas your userbase.

There's a few things to point out here.

There have been numerous file locker sites lose Paypal, Payza, Moneybookers or 2CO since this campaign began. We have reported many but not all of them (for operational reasons). Every week we remove processing from more and once a week I have been posting a list in this thread and on the Stop File Lockers website.

Establishing Copy Control has been no small effort. In the past two weeks the following things have happened.

1. Established the corporation Copy Control Pty. Limited.
2. Launched and invited people into our collaboration system based on Podio.
3. Meetings with several rights holder organisations.
4. Numerous telephone meetings with Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, other rights holders associations ( a total of 11 hours of them in call time)
5. Established an office solely for Copy Control in Melbourne City.
6. Implemented a brand new accounting system for the corporation.
7. Worked on many back end systems to assist our investigations and continue to improve them.

It has been and remains important to ensure that the structural aspects of Copy Control are properly implemented.

We have many other things happening which we just don't and won't talk about. We do not ever discuss operational matters, we do not discuss targets unless strategically desirable to do so, we do not claim responsibility for any actions of any payment processor.

With or without support from the wider community Copy Control will keep on doing what I started with Stop File Lockers and then further develop it's scope of operation.

Far from losing momentum we have gained a head of steam and are building a resilient operation which will become even more effective at tackling commercial copyright theft.

FileMates.com, a site we repeatedly removed payment processing from is now for sale on Flippa.

https://flippa.com/2791778-file-sharing

As the people who own and run Flippa are just down the road from us, we're going to try and organise a meeting and discuss whether it's appropriate for a fine upstanding Melbourne company to be allowing the trade of such sites.

Good news all around!

You, and now you and your team, have and continue to be nothing less than miracle workers :thumbsup
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It seems like File Factory is trying to clean up it's act. However we have collected damning evidence against File Factory and will be posting it over the weekend on Stop File Lockers.

In the mean time.... poor uploaders being slapped by their own file hosts.

http://stopfilelockers.com.au/wp-con...orycleanup.jpg

more to come.

FileMates Part III: The Sell Off.

We first looked at FileMates on June 29 here: http://stopfilelockers.com/filemates...phy-and-music/

Then we took a second look at them on July 3: http://stopfilelockers.com/filemates...second-coming/

Now after burning through payment processors they are attempting to cash out via Flippa.

Read the new story here: http://stopfilelockers.com/file-mate...-the-sell-off/

makes you wonder how much the really big file lockers are making each day.. damn

Bumpy bump

deposit files is using paypal again
This transaction will appear on your bill as PayPal *DPOSITFILES
http://depositfiles.com/gold/payment.php

http://kitty-kats.net/announcement.php?f=54&a=31

ugh looks like they have moved from oron to rapidgator.net & netload.in

This is being dealt with on a number of levels. I cannot expand upon that statement.

Megaupload give you an idea. That's why we should work to bring them down.

Hopefully they will run out of filelockers to move from soon...

So AK, if you had to guess. How much less filesharing is going on since you started this? 1%? 10? 50?

Correct, the money flowing through these sites is staggering.

MyDownloader: The Back Alley into Illegal File Lockers.

http://stopfilelockers.com/mydownloa...l-filelockers/

MyDownloader.net is what we call an "Enabling Service" in that they provide another pathway for the distribution of illegal and pirated content on a commercial basis.

We will be working hard to remove all payment processing options from sites such as this.

Some File Locker sites protest that they don't knowingly engage in Piracy, however when sites like this are so easy to find that argument flies out the window.

RapidGator and FreakShare are amongst the worst offenders.

http://porndvdrips.com/category/xxx-movies/

Here is the answer to your question: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/paypal.com

Hint: Don't forget to hit the "Traffic Stats" tab there https://gfy.com/images/icons/lightbulbdg.gif

EasyBytez.com seems to have lost the ability to process credit cards.

Unfortunately Paypal remains, however we're working on that.

Nice work AK. Be nice when the backup paypal accounts are knocked out.