I've noticed on the WJunction forum there are a number of people making astounding claims about how we operate.

The claim that we upload files ourselves to file lockers and then screenshot them is ridiculous and really shows how lacking in intelligence some of these people on WJunction are.

We don't need to upload files to file lockers, there are already plenty of examples of illegal and infringing files on them. Just a simple search of filestube.com will bring tens of thousands of examples of infringements and thousands of examples of potentially illegal content.

Then there is the campaign of emails to our web hosting providers, Paypal and others. (None of which has been effective and none of which will stop us from operating). The claim is that because we are pointing out that there is illegal content on a particular site that we ourselves are committing a crime.

It is not illegal to point the finger at a criminal and say "hey that guy is robbing a bank, do something about it" , likewise it's not illegal to point out a site hosting illegal content. Especially when the authorities have been slow to act on the site.

It seems we are really getting under the skin of the pirates, which is good, irritating them is part of the program.

A simple message to the uploaders and file locker operators.

If the Stop File Lockers site went offline tomorrow, or we were banned from GFY, or our Twitter account was shut down, then none of that would stop what we are doing. In fact all that would happen is that the pirates would lose a little window through which they can look to understand what we are doing.

We are not going away. We are going to keep putting pressure on your illegitimate business and we shall eventually shut the business model of incentivised file sharing down.

They are pissing into the wind, hoping it will turn around.

Fearlessly conquered another page didn't ya

Some of the recent file lockers casualities:

http://jetuploads.com
http://fileshare.to
http://filelucky.com
http://brutalshare.com
http://uploadoz.com
http://filesline.com
http://zeusupload.com
http://upmorefiles.com
http://filenet.ws
http://doneshare.com

Domain names either do not resolve, or go to a parked page, or redirect to another domain.

There are lots of billers still helping such sites. Just terminating paypal is not enough.
Perhaps a better strategy add on would be to start promoting debrid type sites, ie, sites that allow end users to pay $10 to download as much as they want from several cyber locker sites that are still trying to operate. No sales for upload monkeys = more starvation

That's why we deal with more payment systems than just Paypal :2 cents:

And teach even more people to download infringing content ? No, we are targeting debrid sites too.

The only thing to do is remove all monetization methods from sites.

Looking forward to their demise.

PayPal's really come on strong and now other payment processors are starting to come around.

If we can get imagetwist taken down this will eliminate/deter the new influx of filelocker scammers to gfy at least.

http://imagetwist.com/rewards.html

What are payment methods?

Currently We pay via Paypal , Moneybookers (skrill) , WMZ And Alertpay in USD currency. We may add other payment methods in future.

Imagetwist have already lost Paypal, they pay uploaders using various payment methods.

This site and many others will be in for a shock once we start shutting down the accounts they use to pay their uploaders.

What do you think about depositefiles.com, extabit.com?

Is rapidgators.net closed from signups? It's hard for me to tell.

Do you think it might be easier to go after the forums which faciliate the links to the filelockers? Without the links they won't get the traffic and they (filelockers) will be forced to promote their own sites which will open them up to vulnerability.

Remember that indexing links is rarely prosecuted. Granted the case in the UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O'Dwyer

with TVshack.net

Hosting the content is the illegal part, that's why some of these forums get away with it. The file lockers just get away with it because of the DMCA loophole. I bet half of file lockers are bootstrapped by the owners uploading everything they've ever downloaded and then getting it off the ground with affiliates.
Hard to tell without detailed logs, and who's going to do that without fear of incriminating themselves?

Both are infringing file lockers, both have lost Paypal and various other payment methods. Both are still being targeted by us.

Refer my previous statement about Rapidgator.

We're pursuing every part of the eco system.

You're not safe just by having links to infringing content, anyone who thinks they are would be very wrong.

As stated above, we're going after every portion of the eco system.

It's a tough battle for sure. Some of these forums reside in the US though. Some of these forum owners have been involved with previous, and current, acts of theft. It may not hurt to try and pinpoint one and see what US law can, and cannot, subpoena.

I think it is the forums that should be shut down though. Filelockers keep opening up, the source of the traffic is not so easy.

I know some good US attorneys should you need a contact.

All good points.

We already have our own legal teams working with us, we're in discussion with many parties concerning various issues, some will take longer to resolve than others.

Obviously we wont discuss ongoing detailed operational matters or strategy publicly.

Great news. Can't wait to see the headlines.

Back to the first page...

Bumping to keep this up front. Great work AK and all of your network members.

Stoned Drunk Bump from a reggae party :pimp
File lockers suck donkey balllsssss

IMO it would need a law making advertisers on those forums liable to be sued by the victim of the piracy.

The following sites have lost payment processing of one form or another since 10th October:


bitshare.com
freakshare.com
venusfile.com
filenet.ws
fileb.ag
almmyz.com .
almmyz.com
filesk2.com
filegig.com
sharedbit.net
fileuplo.de
filestrum.com
megaload.it
uploadcore.com
filehostfree.com
1st-files.com
wowebook.be
gxcandals.com
zkito.com
unrestrict.li
gbmeister.com
247upload.com
mafiastorage.com
fileprohost.com
files2upload.net
megacache.net
sube.me
uploo.net
slingfile.com


Updates here:

http://stopfilelockers.com/more-file...nt-processing/

http://forum.copycontrol.org/showthr...wfull=1#post78


No new law needed, existing legislation in several jurisdictions is sufficient.

Any party enabling piracy is liable for civil action and in some cases criminal sanctions.

It's true that for many years various parties have been allowed to get away with supporting piracy however it would be foolish to misconstrue lack of action with a corresponding lack of remedies available to rights holders.

Well done. How is funding going to keep this going into the future?



Has anyone used this legislation to go after the advertisers on piracy sites?

The type of infringement or the nature of the infringer is irrelevant.

Think, common law, civil, torts.

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look at all these fucking armchair lawyers

Has anyone done this?

Warner & Disney vs Triton in 2010 was a US example of taking advertising business to court.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/40370005/C...v-Triton-Media

Paul, we're obviously not going to outline relevant case law in public, why would we give anyone the heads up on how we will pursue them ?

Thanks for the info.

A good day bump

Wow, nice work. I like this. :upsidedow

Looks like an excellent time to start payment processing for all these sites -LOL
Birkina faso based

Bump for a good cause.

Even if they`re moon based... as a 3rd party processor they still would need visa... lol

It happens rarely, this too:

"A U.S. District Court judge has issued a preliminary injunction against two advertising networks and a Whois protection service of a site that offers pirated e-books. Advertising networks Clicksor and Chitika are now prohibited from serving advertisements to the site"

http://torrentfreak.com/no-ads-or-wh...-rules-110118/

In fact if it will be introduced a sistematic and constant stop of advertising on pirate sites, as well as the current credit card sales stop we see since few months: this may be enough to make piracy no more profitable anywhere for anyone. Further, it may become even not sustainable for "no profit pirates" due to hosting costs, which need to be paid in any case. Both no uploaders affiliates or advertising, would leave only the option of donations via bank wires, quite unlikely an option.

I think there are only a few dozens of ad networks serving ads to pirates, and less than an hundreds of major final advertisers, so to "reach" all them it does not impossible :)

Also often the domain name registrars are involved, see this about Enom:

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives...tworks_ord.htm

This is the important part.

This is open for everyone to do. How long before some traffic sellers here get hit? :1orglaugh

This is interesting
 

It looks like there are multiple ways to cut off the money stream from sites that are allowing/participating in copyright infringement. This is a much better way to look at curtailing this than DMCA alone.

What video producers need, is the often talked about way to track the IP (and any other identifying information) of anyone that downloads, rips or screen caps copyrighted content. There is steganography for stills from Chroma Shift, but there needs to be something similar for video soon.

They are launching a video plugin within the next 6 months.

What they need is to get together as one organisation and hit these leeches as a group.

I love to open this thread, there are always some good news to be happy about :pimp Keep up the good work! :)

bumpy bump!