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Without those affiliate payouts they can't pay the bills. :upsidedow

Bump from the EU morning crew.

Great job AK. Although it does make me wonder whether or not this will force the pirates into an adapt or die situation.

In which case, they could potentially start using a different platform, one that would be even more difficult to police or put a stop to.

Not that I'm saying do nothing, but I'm slightly concerned this could open a new can of worms that would present even greater challenges.

In many ways, this could be a fucked if you do and a fucked if you don't scenario.

Either way, kudos to you for taking action.

It's guaranteed that file lockers and pirates in general will adapt. The long term strategy is to reach beyond file lockers and disrupt as many other areas of piracy as possible, as they develop new strategies so will we.

Can I add you on icq fella? There is something I want to run by you outside of public domain so to speak. Never know which fuckers are reading these threads. Cat and mouse. lol

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Oron.com is not loading for me. Can anyone please confirm?

Down here:

Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at oron.com.

Oron is gone.

Cant believe it....:pimp

That is a positive confirmation on my end. :pimp

Just read this on WJunction:

from the xbiz article:

But, but... freeloaders were NEVER going to pay for porn EVER, apparently? That's one hell of a quote, and would be extremely interesting to see the actual figures.

Maybe Oron decided to not pay the hosting bill at leaseweb at all, this is quite a saving. Next hosting provider take some risk however :)

you need to say that as you kick start your chopper like bruce willis in pulp fiction
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No one else thinks this is strange?

Unless they're physically taking the servers from one hosting to the next. Why would they take the site down. Also other questions, did leaseweb turn them off for not paying the bill, if they didn't pay the bill would leaseweb hand over the servers or hold onto them as collateral.

Seems like the shit has hit the fan, let the fun begin. :thumbsup

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My guess Paul is that they are moving to some offshore hosting where they can stick a fiinger up to DMCA and other requests. I dont think they will just pack up because they know they can make a lot of money from what they are doing

Oron has had a month to transfer files and databases. If they did that or not IDK. Maybe they?ll just start new somewhere else. They?re probably doing business under a couple of other names already. Seems to be a standard for file lockers. When one gets into trouble, close it and open a new one.

Agrre. They are too big, they make too much money to just close doors and leaventhencash cow free out in the wild...

That won't make any difference to their processing vulnerability. If it is the case, why take one lot of servers down are they moving those as well?

We are extremely proud of this program. The idea that freeloaders will never pay for porn is a MYTH. Does that mean EVERY pirate will pay for porn? No, of course not. Far from it. But our clients are seeing a lot of joins, and a ton of traffic, from the file hosting sites in our "Making Piracy Pay" program. The further intent of the program is to take the affiliate portion of the join and put it towards our monthly fee. That way these converted pirates are actually paying for our services instead of our fee coming out of the budgets of the producers.

We have a LOT of data that proves just how valuable this "pirate" traffic can be, and what kinds of users convert to legal users, which is very important as our clients need to prove losses in a court of law based on the existence of file hosts and tubes that distribute their files illegally. The actual data really shatters a lot of myths I think.

Having said that, I feel like the geeky set using usenet or die-hard torrent types will never pay for content. But your run-of-the-mill file host downloader will if there are no other easy options.

As people have often said here and elsewhere: make it easy, high quality, convenient and cheap to get it legally and people will.

Hit me up privately (pornguardian.com) for more information if you have any questions.

best,
Dominic

File Lockers in motion!

Kill filelockers!

Oron may spring up somewhere else, however the operators of Oron would be foolish to think that they are invincible.

depositfiles.com seems to be taking over.

Really ?

Loss of trust. :upsidedow

Will cost them a lot.

Love the sound of that irony.

You have something cooking!

We're working and chipping away at some of the larger players in this game. These larger sites take a lot more work, which is not as spectacular as knocking off dozens of smaller file lockers in one fell swoop.

There are many groups working to shut down commercial copyright infringement. The suit against Oron showed that even the biggest sites are vulnerable when you target their financial base. It's obvious that the freezing of Oron's assets, which was widely reported, was a highly effective strategy.

Here's to the continual freezing of Filelockers assets :thumbsup

Some recent Paypal terminations


We believe that all these sites have been terminated by Paypal in the last week. We do not believe any of them may process through Paypal again, however Paypal always deals with these matters on a case by case basis.

NOTES Copy Control does not claim responsibility for these or any other Paypal terminations. Many organisations work to deal with infringing sites. Some of these sites may have been reported earlier then re-reported as they continued to process with Paypal. This information is current at the time of publication and is subject to change.

Fucking loving it!

It's great fun following this, Furk for example keeps giving 'premium features for free' basically because they keep losing their PayPal :)

Oron is back btw, still on Leaseweb by the looks...

Paypal does not allow pornography of any kind.

I setup a paypal account to test a new site im working on, i did a 1$ test payment - And my account was shut down within 24 hours.

Hey good luck adultking - I luv what your doing :)

That's what I thought but pretty sure I recall seeing an email from freeones last week stating they now accept paypal?

I think they exploit a loop hole of it being for a faster downloading service. Until Paypal comes out as strongly against piracy as it does for porn. It will be a drawn out fight.

We found this site today

http://www.officeproductkey.eu

Which just goes to show how blatant piracy is. This site was reported to us because apparently the site delivers customers download links from file lockers in return for their payment.