Nice edit. So I take it you're NOT downloading photoshop now? At least, not from FileShoppe. Thanks for hiding your shame.

Why should this guy give you or anyone any information or access about his users if you aren't a recognized authority...I'm still unsure of your angle in all of this, but perhaps you are trying to achieve some sort of authoritative status somehow by doing what you are doing, but until that point no one should be giving you or anyone that isn't a recognized authority anything, and you shouldn't even ask for it.

Anyone can make up a cause and set up a whole situation that makes them look official and then get sensitive data as a result. It's called social engineering and if it happened to a company that represented you and they gave out your information, you would not be very happy regardless of the supposed illegitimacy.

You put whoever you suspect on blast wanting them to violate privacy just to please your cause. One example was Paxum. You suspected them of funding or supporting piracy or whatever, and they actually ended up revealing some info about someone. Even still you put them on blast about "supporting" piracy you still seem to use them, just as many other people in this thread probably do.

Does that mean you are/were also supporting piracy because some of your money goes to them?

By this guy Fshoppe denying you access to all his things, you are implying it makes him seem more guilty when half your answers are that you "don't discuss operational matters". Why should he break whatever privacy terms he has in place when you won't break any of your private matters.

By this guy feeding into this thread actually makes it seem like you guys are an authority and is actually strengthening your credibility. What a fool this guy is and makes me wonder why he is even talking in this thread.

Download it and find out.

So could be anice pay off there.

You seem to be moaninf a lot, so having options are good.

That was the message I saw.

To accept uploaded content and be protected by DMCA. You can't check the content.

To comply to payment processors contracts, you must not do certain things. Like sell access to cp, illegal content and pirated content.

AK when he's got Paypal making sure they are on top of this. Will move onto other processors. Now I appreciate that will cost you your business. Don't expect sympathy from anyone here.

Some of your replies are very similar to a long term poster and anti fighting piracy person here.

AK any idea who he is or if you can find out?

Clearly I have way too much time on my hands. But thank you for your views on privacy.

Fuck... That should be really simple. Even a retard can figure that out. One pages says "nothing found, sorry", and the other one says "filename:___ filetype: free / try premium free". Which one will lead people to believe that material is actually available, although maybe not immediatly but after a couple of extra steps?

Do you really see no difference? I'm just wondering. I know that pirates have twisted mentality, but to deny things that are beyong obvious is not that common even for pirates.

http://i.imgur.com/zb4eX.png
http://i.imgur.com/9wPSp.png

Yes sounding like someone else even more.

First, it is unreasonable for us to download EVERY file to examine. We are happy to look at file names and or web pages that promote it as a particular type of download.

For example, if a file gets uploaded called "House Episode 1.avi", we will delete it!

If another file is called "HE1.rar" we won't delete it. But if someone says, "This file is being offered here, it is infringing THIS particular copyright etc etc." Then we will remove it.

But it is more complicated when the infringement is not obvious. From what I can see, the files in question relate to Java tutorials. I cannot see any 'author' information so if someone says "it's copyright", I'm afraid that doesn't cut the cheese.

We need to be able to verify a claim. Who's copyright does it infringe? How do you know? Where is this file being shared. Just some links means nothing without context. Some links HAVE context and we can act. But without context, what do you expect?

Never going to be a problem since we will never get Paypal :-).

What would you like to know? We're not hiding anything.

Hello Nautilus. I believe you have misunderstood the point that was trying to be made.

In the screenshot of SFL, you can indeed see the text is displayed on their page. Now that was done, obviously, through manipulation of the search string in the URL.

You can do almost exactly the same thing on FileShoppe. Meaning if you want it to show the file name as Stargate, you can. But you can also make it say Nautilus, or whatever else you please. Does it mean we hosted a file called Nautilus......avi? Absolutely not.

Not to mention, 'screenshots' can be modified easily enough. If I wanted to manufacture evidence that SFL was indeed hosting or linking to copyright material, I could quite easily edit a screenshot and post for you all.

Moving on.

So we do not have giant 'SORRY, NOT FOUND' text on the page. So what? The files CANNOT be downloaded and no sales can be made at all. So the only person who may think they can actually download the file there, is someone who's not actually looking to download it. If they were looking to download it, then they wouldn't be able to. And as mentioned before, we do not benefit from any sales since there is no way to send us money on this page.

And you continuously referring to us as pirates is no different than me referring to you and AK as child pornographers.

So you have an uploader who's supposedly the "author" of that copyrighted work, and you cannot simply ask him where did he get that file? I simple thought of doing your diligence to check who your clients/partners are seemingly never crossed your mind.

That file did not appear in your system out of the blue. You have an uploader. Check him to see if he has any business uploading that file. Check what his other uploads are, where his traffic is coming from etc. Ask a few questions. If he can prove he creates tutorials for a living and sells them legitimately through your service, it's all fine, false alarm. If his other uploads are photoshop and brazzers' latest update, and his traffic is coming from pornbb or warezbb, ban him. Isnt that simple? You do not need to check every single uploaded file. But you need to check who your partners are - better proactively, but at least after you received an infringement report, be it even from a third party and not from a copyright holder directly. Investigate your uploaders first and foremost, not the individual files.

These files were uploaded anonymously in November 2011 and have never been downloaded. The only information we have regarding the uploader's identity is that of their MerchantID which is unique.

We already have a policy of, if you share/sell copyright material, your account will be terminated and files deleted.

We do not guarantee storage of 9 months so actually we can delete these even if they don't break copyright since they have never been downloaded.

Many files are uploaded and if they don't seem suspicious, we just leave them. If you sent us an E-Mail and said X Y and Z are copyright without any further details, why should we waist our time investigating. If the complainant cannot be bothered to make a proper request, why should we bother to investigate. Otherwise, we could end up having bots that file take down requests for legit files and it would consume our valuable time.

How is asking for a little more information unreasonable?

In any case, those files have now been removed for long inactivity.

There's no difference only if you're a retard. Because for anyone with half a brain the difference is glaringly obvious - we did find real infringements at your site, while you have zero proof to back up your claim.

Because if you don't you'll waste much more time arguing at GFY how unfair it is that your service was terminated.

It is unfair to say they are on our site. On our servers? Sure. But to call us pirates because copyright material has existed on our server is a bit much.

Are the guys at media fire pirates? I would bet that they have more copyright material than us by a factor of a million!

Content is user generated. Just as this forum is. The owners of this website is not responsible for it's users comments. Likewise, it is unreasonable to expect they monitor every single post. They must be informed of any breach of their own rules.

We WILL remove content from our servers if it breaks our TOS. We are not pirates. We have been more than compliant. We have been proactive. Which is more than I can say for AK and your good self.

I'm calling you a pirate mostly because you share the same twisted mentality with them.

Oh so then I CAN call you a child pornographer? Because you have the same mentality as they do. Great!

do something about it then? Email paypal about his abuse of their AUP. maybe they'll cancel his account.
stop spamming here.

You just provided a prime example of what all pirates share in common - making retarded claims with zero proof.

For the record, MediaFire is an infringing site and we're going after them too. The same applies to RapidShare. Neither are legitimate businesses and the business model is based upon the theft of content from others. Our goal is to deprive them of funds and cause them to shut down.

However this isn't about them, it's about you and the fact that you are a pirate.

It seems your "user generated content" is so well managed that you have sorted it by category, genre and long descriptive file names. It also seems your "users" have created folders in directories on your servers to house this categorised material.

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http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...ctories-24.jpg

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...ctories-31.jpg

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A nice archive of literally thousands upon thousands of instances of piracy, examples:

Essential Buddhism

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Budd.../dp/0671041886

Book $11.95 on Amazon, Illegal download from FileShoppe is 73 cents.

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


Basic Neurochemistry, 8th Edition

http://store.elsevier.com/Basic-Neur...9780123749475/

Book $147.95 from Specialist Book Stores, Illegal download from FileShoppe is $1.99

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...gements-21.jpg

Everything in the archive is infringing, none of it is original works uploaded by the rights holder.

You're engaged in wide ranging, commercial piracy on a mammoth scale. Ripping off publishers, music studios, movie studios, adult content producers, game studios and anyone else whose content you can illegally monetize.

Thousands and thousands of infringing files, all categorised and archived on your servers in directories made by you.

When we say you are hosting and profiting from thousands of infringing files we mean that you're a pirate and you can come here and bleat about how clean you are but you're no different from every other common parasite who complains that we're hurting their legitimate business model.

Gantlet thrown down! Nice post AK

Now how has been notified of the piracy, which breaks his TOS, how long till it all comes down?

I am still curious who this guy FShoppe is and why he says he has nothing to hide.

That's interesting. Care to post some copies of the letters you've sent to rapidshare, and to paypal about them?

No we have not been notified. Not 1 link reported to us. However, I would like to point out (see in the bottom two screenshots.) these must be newly uploaded files. You can tell because they appear only on 1 mirror. If any of you try (and I know some of you have) to upload a file to our system, you will see the replication is generally quite quick.

If AK did not upload this himself, he caught it pretty quickly. Please send us the links and we will take care of it. They do not appear in our database.

bump to fuck that FShoppe sucker's ass hard

So hiding behind the exact wording of the DMCA. If being shown the pages on your site isn't notification enough then I guess.

If it talks like parrot, looks like a parrot and squawks like a parrot. Odds are its a parrot.

Now please tell us why you hide so much.

Beg your pardon?

No I am not hiding behind DMCA. The 'screenshots' do not contain URLs. Where am I supposed to look? How can we ban/terminate from screenshots?

Hello Paul, perhaps AK would like to explain why he has the exact same copy of material on his own site at SFL?

http://fileshoppe.net/junk/evidence.png

(Oh jee, I really hope no 1 asks me for the URL so they can see for themselves. Nah.. should be fine! They don't ask AK. They just take his word for it!)

Take the text, type it into Google or a search engine for pirates. Find the link and delete. It seems easy to me. then you might find out how much pirated content you have.

Or maybe that index is entirely fictitious since we don't do indexing and that the screenshot of the particular file was uploaded by AK himself, hence the replication was not complete.

It seems strange that you just take 'screenshots' as evidence without asking for the link.

Clearly those images were photoshopped. You can easily tell because NO ONE has a browser that tall. He cut and pasted stuff and put it all up and called it evidence. Where are the links if they exist?

I too found those links on SFL. I posted evidence proving as much.

This is not the first time a member on this forum was making stuff up. Why just yesterday someone claimed they were downloading Photoshop, but then later edited their post to hide his obvious lie.

AK is either doing the same, uploading content, or BOTH.

You ask not for evidence from him why? Because you have already made your minds up.

It is clear to me that there is no-one here serious about fighting piracy. Manufactured evidence, no cooperation, and lies. It is no wonder that copyright infringement goes on. You spend all your time complaining about it instead of actually doing something about it. And judging by how some of you have acted in this thread, I would bet you guys are contacting Paypal and various other payment gateways/authorities with completely made up 'evidence'.

Good job guys! Keep up the good work. One day you'll get there. Just keep persisting and piracy will die. Nothing beats piracy like sitting on you hands or twiddling your thumbs.

simply type site:beta.mercury.fileshoppe.net into Google, FShoppe has removed the fspro directory in which all this resided but Google remembers.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...ppe-google.jpg

Actually, I decided to wait to say something about it until the download was complete.

However, to my surprise, I did not get Adobe Photoshop. I got a porn DVD called Anal Virgins 3.

Here are the links:

I'm sure I could find infringing links like these all day long if I gave two fucks, but all I had was one fuck to give and I used it on this post.

busted! PMSL! :1orglaugh

and why bother replying, AK?
They are taking valuable time you spend away from your main issues.
I'd ignore them and continue what you're doing so well.

*bump*

Since I knew you would come back with some Gideon Gallery bullshit, I mustered up all I had to give one more fuck.

Underworld: Awakening

Stargate Atlanis - Season 1

American Dad - Season 5

Star Treck - Next Generation

Like I said, I could do this for days. For you to claim you don't know about this stuff shows how completely retarded you or, or that you are a lying scum bag. I'm guessing it's the latter.

:2 cents:

That may be his goal.

Tried that and got a blank page. http://beta.mercury.fileshoppe.net/f...r=mathematics/

What did I do wrong?

You got a blank page because he's removed access to the directory listings of the files.

What site:beta.mercury.fileshoppe.net shows you is all the indexed items, but you can't see them as he's pulled them. Over time they will disappear from the Google index, however they last long enough for us to demonstrate that he's a pirate.

You are sounding more and more like my mate from England.

Calls people liars, CPers, pokes fun, hates people targeting pirates.

Here's the deal. I will do the searching on your site if you promise to remove the content.

Thanks. My weak spot is computers. LOL

Hi DWB,

I guess you forgot to check if you could actually download files then?

AK, we do not offer directory listings. In any case, even if they were up there, what does it say when they are no longer accessible?

On the one hand, if you find files that infringe copyright, you say "HA! Proof of being a pirate". On the other hand if the files are not accessible, you say "HA! Proof of being a pirate". So really its the same.

You cannot be pleased and you still tout this BS that you know what you're talking about and you know what you're doing.

It's a shame you did not post any actual links for people to verify your BS.

And DWB, AV3 was deleted 2 days ago thanks to reports made here on this forum. You claiming you were able to download it is yet another desperate attempt to help make your case. Downloads are logged and there is no evidence you downloaded any file called AV3. We have no record of a file named AV3 available for download.

Everyone who actually bothers to check the link will know its not available. Heck even AK knows its not available but he's happy for people to spread lies if it suits his cause.

It's not that complicated. If you find it, report it and it will come down.

If somehow you relate that to the actions of a pirate, that only shows how twisted your mind works, not mine.

Of course! This is the point of me engaging in this forum. Many files have already been removed thanks to the efforts of some here, including AK.

But if you're not going to bother to check the links to see if the file has already been removed, and then say "SEE, HES A PIRATE", I don't think I'll have enough patience to stay here. And though many of you may like the sound of that, it does answer the question, "why are there so many file lockers about hosting copyright content?". The answer is simple. Because no one is doing anything about it, including AK and his crusaders. He is instead pocketing his donations and letting the problem persist. After all, why would he take down all those sites that ultimately result in him taking in a profit.

Post links you find here and they will be removed. Please check them though. I mean ACTUALLY check them. If you don't see a download button, its not available. If you do, and it is copyright, we will investigate and delete. If the file belongs to a particular user, we will terminate his/her account and all their files.

I don't know how anyone would consider this unreasonable. It's a pretty simple set-up really.